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Breasts: two great reasons to avoid trans fats. Trans-fats may hike breast cancer risk (Abstract)- “Writing in the American Journal of Epidemiology, Veronique Chajes from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) reports that high blood levels of trans fatty acids, but not cis fatty acids, was associated with a [...]
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So I was off walking around the building this morning (with a goal in mind, not just wandering aimlessly) and I happened to glance into the Training Room as I walked by. They were preparing for their 8am training class and had plates of snacks at each spot. My brief glance noted that [...]
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Here is WebMD’s 6 Reasons Americans Aren’t Eating Healthier:
1. Calories
2. Diet and Exercise
3. Breakfast
4. Fats
5. Carbohydrates
6. “Functional” Foods
I’d like to offer my own 6 reasons why we’re not healthier, basing them on those from WebMD.
1. We focus on calories, instead of food: 1000 calories from Twinkies is not the same as 1000 calories from lettuce, [...]
With great anticipation, I opened this article on Forbes about Healthy Desserts. I anticipated bowls of berries with coconut and cinnamon and other fruit concoctions, sufficient to satisfy the sweet tooth, but without loads of sugar. Boy was I wrong. Ok, I really didn’t anticipate that. I anticipated pretty much what [...]
Coke will try anything
Here’s a laugher. Coke is putting out a Diet Coke drink fortified with vitamins and minerals. Rest assured that this is a marketing ploy; no soft drink, diet or otherwise, is ever going to be healthy. Water, tea, or black coffee are the only good choices of beverages for [...]
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