Does that look like something you should be eating?
Let’s face it. Eventually, we all want something sweet. So when you do decide to make dessert at home, what sweetener should you reach for? What should you put in your coffee? We all know that it shouldn’t be anything with high-fructose corn [...]
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Heart Association Recommends Statins for Kids with High Cholesterol
From the AHA comes this little gem:
When diet and exercise fail to lower cholesterol in children with high-risk lipid abnormalities, statins should be first-line drug therapy, declared the American Heart Association in a new scientific statement.
Yes, statins. For kids. I guess the pharmaceutical companies have [...]
Here is an interesting, albeit not surprising, article from Science Daily. This article discusses a study on rats that showed an increase in diabetes from fructose-sweetened drinks. Fructose is the sugar found in fruit and is also concentrated in high-fructose corn syrup, which is so prevalent in our packaged foods industry. The scientists noted [...]
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Research funded by beverage industry is biased
This article came out a few days ago and discusses the fact that studies backed by the beverage industry are more likely to be favorable to the beverage industry. Surprise, surprise!
If anything, bias was even stronger than for research on drugs, with industry-backed papers being more than seven [...]
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Two soft drinks a day ups pancreatic cancer risk by 90%
I came across this article on Medpage last week.
The crux of the article:
Consuming two cans of fizzy drinks a day can double your risk of developing one of the most fatal types of cancer, say researchers.
People who add sugar to cups of tea or coffee [...]
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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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Originally posted 4-30-2006
I was recently turned onto an article via Dr. Joseph Mercola’s website. Basically, a twelve year-old did a science project comparing the bacteria levels in ice from fast food ice machines and drive-thrus to bacteria levels of the water from the toilets at those same fast food establishments. The delicious findings [...]
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