Smelling Flavor
Unilever Food and Health Research Institute wants to put chemical odorants in your food, so you will perceive it as a healthy food option. Here’s the article.Their researchers picked commercially …
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Schedule troubles
I was teaching a group on the Path program a couple of nights ago. One of the participants, who is really doing well, nevertheless has a wicked schedule. She’s always …
Schedule troubles Read MoreGenetically Modified ANIMALS for Food
You’re never going to believe this (here’s the article). You know how genetic engineers can take recombinant DNA of one plant, and splice it into another, and give us GMO …
Genetically Modified ANIMALS for Food Read MoreDiet and Fat
We have to confront one of our must cherished notions about weight and health — regarding the dietary demon of fat. This article, published in the American Journal of Clinical …
Diet and Fat Read MoreDose-up the Children
Our culture of health seems to adopt a “give pills first, ask questions later” mentality. In other words, treat with a product (drugs), rather than with a process (behavioral therapy). …
Dose-up the Children Read MoreConcert Waif
I'm at the idina Menzel concert. The person selling the T-shirts for the warmup act is a waif. Nice girl, but a complete bird, with wrists like pencils. you just …
Concert Waif Read MoreFoods To Help Lower Blood Pressure
High blood pressure is not just about the sodium anymore. The factor you can increase … to decrease … your blood pressure, turns out to be foods with Potassium. Blood …
Foods To Help Lower Blood Pressure Read MoreFaking it
The Dow Chemical company wants to sell you a new fat blocker as a way to allow you to eat unhealthy foods. Forget that the last fat blocker on the …
Faking it Read MoreYour Brain on Portions and Pleasure
This report speaks directly to the message we are trying to get across: that overweight and obesity is about more than just molecule micromanagment. To love your food and reintroduce …
Your Brain on Portions and Pleasure Read MorePace Controls Portions
It is important to say it again: Pace Controls Portions. This simple principle can be found in the healthy habits of the Mediterranean people, and has been replicated in this …
Pace Controls Portions Read MoreRed Wine Pill: FDA takes a closer look
Good for the FDA. They stepped up and smacked down a Georgia-based supplements manufacturer for making unfounded (read, rediculous) drug claims about one of its resveratrol pills. Read the report …
Red Wine Pill: FDA takes a closer look Read MoreYea tho’ I walk through the shadow …
Temptation is not often easily avoided. Halloween is a perfect example. Every year, the confection flood gates open, and test the mettle of your dreams of moderation. Just keep in …
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