Year: 2009

Guess which diet got the best ranking? According to this report by WebMD, it’s the Mediterranean Diet. Study Shows Mediterranean Diet Lowers Heart Disease Risk; Western Diet Gets Poor MarksResearchers evaluated more than 50 years of research on diet and heart disease and found those that follow a Mediterranean...

The polyphenol-rich pomegranate may reduce inflammation, and lower your risk of chronic disease. This is the conclusion of this new study from the Journal of Inflammation. Read the report here. This is great and all, but keep your feet on the ground. Don’t run out and buy Pom pills,...

  Serves 12   You’ll Need · 6 medium sweet potatoes · 1 ½ cups apple, sliced · ½ teaspoon salt · 1/3 cup brown sugar · 4 Tablespoons butter · 1 teaspoon cinnamon Directions Preheat oven to 350-F. Boil sweet potatoes until tender. Slice in 1/4 inch pieces....

Sports drinks, by definition, are marketed to sportsy people, and those who have aspirations to be sportsy people. Concerns are being raised, however, regarding this assumption — because of their high sugar content, and dyes that give them their multiple Day-Glo color palate. This article reports on research (from...

Tea is good for you. The chatechins and other anti-oxidants are obviously important for your health. But something like tea can sit on the shelf for a long, long time before it makes it into your cup. How does that change the health properties … if at all?? This...

Eating a vegetarian diet is one of the healthiest ways to go. But this article suggests that there may be some concerns you should watch out for, especially for your teenagers. According to this work in the April issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, twice as...

Patients receiving optimal drug therapy after suffering a heart attack do not gain any additional benefit from taking supplemental omega-3 fatty acids. That conclusion is according to this new study, in which almost 4,000 people who suffered heart attacks took Omega-3 supplements. Researchers wanted to see whether this pill...

There are some things that we have forgotten … and just need to remember. Need an example? Return to the Family Table. This study just published in the March/April issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior showed that kids who eat with their families are more likely...

It turns out that the three most important aspects of purchasing a new home, can also impact your weight! This article in the NYTimes indicates that ninth graders whose schools are within a block of a fast-food outlet are more likely to be obese than students whose schools are...

The logic is straightforward. We know that preventing diabetes is better than fighting the disease after it has developed. We also know that the Mediterranean diet can prevent the development of diabetes in the first place. Thus, in theory, we should be able to apply this approach to prevent...

Certain proteins found in the yellow garden pea appear to help lower blood pressure and delay, control or even prevent the onset of chronic kidney disease, at least in rats. Yellow peas? Really? Yellow peas, as in … plain old yellow peas? The answer is yes, and it reinforces...

The healthiest foods on the planet are the ones we “know by heart”, like … the tomato. In fact, the Mediterranean diet is rich in tomatoes, tomato products, and other carotenoids and has been associated with a lower incidence of a slew of nasty chronic diseases. Here’s a summary...