Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The bacteria of the digestive system, both good and bad, are much in the news. Researchers from the University of Florence have found the children in an African village, breast fed until the age of two and who ate a largely vegetarian diet (including the occasional termite for fiber) had vastly different good and bad [...]
Soda drinkers and coffee lovers will be thrilled with this news. A recent review appearing in the May 2010 Journal of the National Cancer Institute finds that taking in high amounts of coffee or sugared soda do not appear to raise colon cancer risk.
Earlier research findings have been murky where coffee [...]
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Few of us get the recommended number of servings of healthy foods experts suggest, though it’s hard to deny that eating right can do wonders for both body and mind. According to best selling author and board certified nutrition specialist Jonny Bowden, author of The Most Effective Ways to Live Longer, [...]
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Mention the word “diet” and just about everyone cringes… the word conjures up all sorts of unpleasant associations – deprivation, endless effort and hard won victories. More than a few of us have been on many diets in our day, so we know, first hand, about the frustration. Yet modern medicine tells [...]
Hard to imagine fast food being any part of a healthy diet plan, but the good news is that you can enjoy healthy fast food choices without sabotaging your weight loss efforts. Estimates have one in four American’s eating out daily, and since fast foods offer an affordable, mobile meal, it’s no [...]
Thursday, August 12, 2010
New research suggests that those of us who drink a lot of tea, or coffee in moderation, are less likely to die from heart disease than those who don’t drink these beverages. This finding adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests tea and coffee can help with preventing heart disease, [...]
Anyone who is avoiding workouts or eating healthy has lots of reasons… no time, no money, no motivation, no fun. Working out, shopping and cooking healthy just isn’t “fun”… at least that’s what weight loss experts are told all the time. But it doesn’t have to be that way – there are [...]
New work finds that making health food choices by following a diet rich in fruits, veggies, low fat dairy products and fish is linked to a lowered colon cancer risk. If you’ve been following this issue, you know that earlier studies have brought conflicting findings about the effectiveness of eating this way.
Yet [...]
It’s only since the beginning of the 20th century that a large number of new synthetic chemicals have become a part of our food supply. Increasingly people are searching for foods that are closer to nature. Unfortunately, new work out the University of Michigan finds that eating organic food diet actually [...]
As we all know, obesity is a growing issue for children. New research points an accusing finger at fructose, a sugar in food that is a major component of widely used high fructose corn syrup in soft drinks, processed foods and candy, and suggests it may cause fat cells in children to [...]
