Another article that I read yesterday: Bread Consumption Linked to Cancer.
The crux is:
Comparing the highest with the lowest intakes, consumption of bread increased the risk of RCC by 94 percent, pasta and rice by 29 percent, and milk and yogurt by 27 percent.Conversely, high intake of poultry, processed meat, and vegetables appeared to reduce the [...]
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Someone pointed me to this article yesterday: Caffeine-stoked energy drinks worry Docs. My first thought was “Ya think?!?” Our society’s caffiene addiction is extending to the younger generation, much as our obesity is spreading to the younger generation. An energy drink now and again isn’t going to harm anyone anymore than a [...]
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As if you really needed more health reasons, here is more good news about eating your vegetables.
The low-down is this:
On measures of mental sharpness, older people who ate more than two servings of vegetables daily appeared about five years younger at the end of the six-year study than those who ate few or no vegetables.
Those [...]
This article details how the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the most respected medical journals has decided to allow authors of review articles with financial ties to pharmaceutical companies. Not only that, the authors can be tied to the pharmaceutical companies of the very drugs they are reviewing! This goes along [...]
Y’know, sometimes these entries write themselves. The former head of the FDA pleaded guilty to conflict of interest for owning stock in companies regulated by the FDA. As if the screw-ups with drugs such as Vioxx aren’t enough, the head of the organization charged with protecting our food and drug supply is putting [...]
This excerpt from the movie Network (1976) rings truer today than ever before. TV (and by extension, the internet) isn’t the truth. Turn off your TVs, read a book, get out and experience the world.
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I just posted a new article on my website: The Myths of Healthy Eating Part II. Here is part I if you missed it.
I was directed to this article yesterday. Basically, doctors and parents are debating whether or not to call obese kids obese. Current guidelines are that overweight kids are called “at risk of overweight” and obese kids are called “overweight”. An “obesity task force” is now proposing calling the first category “overweight” and [...]
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Dr. Michael Eades, coauthor of Protein Power and Protein Power Lifeplan (excellent books, by the way), has written two excellent articles on his blog regarding the recent E.coli outbreak. The first one is Corn-eating-cow crap chuckin’ up your insides blues and the second is More on E. coli O157:H7.
Dr. Eades makes several very important [...]
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Make Way for the Sidewalk SUV
I discovered the reason for America’s burgeoning waistline yesterday. This quote right here sums up this article: “Now waiting on line at the buffet is no problem,” she says. “You just sit there.”
On the one hand, I am amazed and appalled by people’s lack of desire to do something [...]
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