Grandma was right about eating your broccoli. Broccoli Protects Skin From Sun Damage - “Add sunscreen to the list of broccoli’s health benefits. A new study suggests the potent vegetable may help protect the skin from sun damage. … Researchers say the broccoli extract did not physically absorb the UV rays, but it appeared [...]
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Here is a Men’s Health article that I came across on the Performance Menu forum. It’s a brief skim-of-the-surface regarding why saturated fat won’t kill you as common wisdom tells us.
This was my favorite paragraph:
Now here’s the saturated-fat connection: Dr. Krauss found that when people replace the carbohydrates in their diet with fat–saturated or [...]
I’m sure most of us have seen this article (or one from some other news source) declaring which dietary factors influence cancer risk. Here is an overview of the findings from this study (part of the full report):
Aflatoxins “convincingly” increase the risk of liver cancer
Dietary fiber “probably” reduces the risk of colorectal cancer and [...]
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Last week, I realized that I was running a 15 cubic foot freezer to keep about 2 cubic feet of food cold. Not being a fan of wasting electricity (freezers work harder the less frozen stuff there is in them), I decided to consolidate it all into the freezer with the dog food. [...]
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This month’s Paleo Diet Newsletter is out. This month Dr. Cordain finishes what he started last month, bringing us the last 4 universal characteristics of the hunter-gatherer diet. He touches on fat intake and composition, potassium vs sodium intake, net acid loads, and vitamins and minerals. He also uses one of my [...]
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, [...]
Regina Wilshire did it again with this review of the findings of the 15th Annual European Conference on Obesity. Check out those very interesting stats on fat and saturated fat. I can’t wait to see the low-fatters scramble to cover their rears again. I bet they’ll claim that all of those Eastern [...]
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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 [...]
Good news for women trying to conceive: eating ice cream may help! But low-fat dairy foods may increase the risk of infertility
I came across this article yesterday and thought you all might find it of interest. The main point:
Drinking whole fat milk and eating ice cream appears to be better for women trying to [...]
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An email came out recently at work that mentioned our new “Heart Healthy Lunchroom”. I found myself sitting mouth-agape reading what they find to be “Heart Healthy”. Here is the bulleted list of options available in the cafe.
- new, guilt-free French fries or chicken tenders, now being fried in zero-trans fat oil and [...]
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