Here’s a good follow-up to my recent post on the growing obesity problem amongst kids: Children Eat More Fruits and Vegetables If They Are Homegrown.
The study found that preschool kids served homegrown fruits and vegetables were nearly twice as likely to eat five servings per day than those who rarely or never had homegrown produce. [...]
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Y’know, all of this pet food recall news has me thinking about how glad I am that I feed my dog a natural diet of raw meat and produce. I don’t have to worry myself with contaminated wheat gluten and, now, rice protein. This whole fiasco just reinforces that I’m doing the right [...]
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More Fruits and Vegetables = Lower Risk of Head and Neck Cancer
One more time, benefits are found from eating more fruits and vegetables.
A large prospective study of 500,000 men and women aged 50 and older has found that those who ate more fruit and vegetables had a reduced risk of head and neck cancer. Head [...]
This article came through my RSS Reader a few days ago. It is about the significant rise in childhood obesity.
Four-year-old girls are six times more likely to have a Body Mass Index (BMI) of more than 30 than they were 20 years ago and ten-year-olds are five times more likely, according to research published [...]
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I recently wrote an email to Chris Wanjek for his article on Live Science titled “The Atkins Paradox?” A few days ago, I received a response to my email. This is a copy/paste, so all typos are his.
Greg,Thanks for your message. You make many good points. I don’t write the titles. [...]
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I found this lovely article by Chris Wanjek today. As you can imagine, that article made me shake my head in disgust. He is so far off-base, repeating the standard party line that I had to send him the following email:
Chris,
I have to disagree with you regarding your column [...]
All hail the arrival of spring! For those of us in Midwestern climes, March brought some relief from this winter’s bitter cold and we’re now facing down full weeks of 70+ degree weather. For those of us in the Ohio River Valley, spring is also the lead-in to the amazingly humid summer. [...]
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