Year: 2009

We create the culture of health around us. For example, food manufacturers have typically substituted modified food products and ingredients for their more natural counterparts: High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) and synthetic sweeteners for sugar, hydrogenated oils for vegetable oils, and artificial fats (Olestra) for the real thing. This...

Does a traffic jam lead to a heart attack? This research report indicates that getting stuck in traffic prompts a serious and immediate consequence — a much higher risk of suffering a heart attack. Here’s what they found:After a four-year analysis of nearly 1,500 heart attack cases, the authors...

One food industry group is reporting that the current economic climate is turning into a wake-up call for wellness. Food industry research analyst Christopher Shanahan said that consumers are increasingly focused on ways to avoid becoming ill due to the economic downturn. “There is a growing interest in health...

A new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition gives us one more reason to argue against the consumption of snack foods such as potato chips. Why? It’s not about your fat grams or even your tendency to overeat when you nosh on salty foods from a sack....

Is coffee good for you? What are the limits of coffee consumption? This is a nice summary article from WebMD. Early studies linked coffee to cancer. This connection, though, was later shown to be confounded by cigarettes … those who drank coffee often smoked as well. When you subtract...

A new independent clinical study has shown yet again how effective the Mediterranean diet can be to lower the risk of heart disease and to improve overall health. Women who followed a Mediterranean diet were almost 1/3 less likely to experience heart disease and also 13% less likely to...

You know the food label on the back of all food products? It’s that table of macromolecules that you are required to balance against a standard 2000 Calorie per Day diet … every day … as you separate carbs (good ones versus bad ones),from your fats (good ones versus...

Remember Recess? For those of us “of a certain age”, recess at school was a normal part of the day. This practice, however, has been phased out slowly and steadily over the years. Now, new research suggests that play (and “down time”) may be as important to a child’s...

Serves 8 You’ll Need · 1 cup barley · 6 cups chicken broth · 1 cup onion, chopped · ¼ teaspoon butter · 3 Tablespoons fresh mint, or 1Tablespoon dried · 2 Tablespoons parsley, minced · Yogurt Directions Place the barley and the broth in a soup kettle and...

Rogue Creamery leads American cheeses to Europe http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_7738/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=sLKFtU6r Sent from my iPhone...

  You’ll Need 1 cup uncooked lentils   ½ teaspoon salt   2 ¼ cups water   1 Tablespoon olive oil   6 green onions, sliced   1 garlic clove, minced   1 ½ Tablespoons parsley   1 dash cayenne   1 dash turmeric   ¼ cups water, as...

Failure can tell you as much about yourself as the object of the lapse. Two large Type 2 diabetes trials were just presented at this year’s annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association. Each began with a theory that was “obviously correct,” but somehow failed to give the expected...