If you Just Say NO to HRT … then what?
I just wanted to add in this link to a site that goes over the foods that can help with the symptoms of menopause without increasing your risk of cancer and stroke. I like this resource because it relies on foods, rather than drugs that can increase your risk...
Cherry-Berry Bread
Cherries are “in season” in the early summer, and it is a perfect time for this delicious bread. Make this bread on a saturday when you want a sumptuous nibble, late in the morning. Remember that the cranberries and cherries are really, really good for you, but this doesn’t...
Supplements Do Harm For Cancer Treatment
We’ve been coached to substitute pills for food, to take one-a-day to boost, and enhance, and improve, and [insert miracle here]. But where does the coaching come from? Research science, carried out by independent research labs, does not support the incredible premise that we can improve on the miracle...
Childhood Obesity Takes a Breather
The Journal of the American Medical Association just reported that Childhood Obesity has not increased over this past year. The yearly up-sizing of our nation’s youth — and the down-sizing of our nation’s health — has paused to catch its breath. Think about the long long steady run —...
FDA Cuts the GRAS on Salt
Here’s what we know.1) Excess salt consumption is linked to heart disease and stroke.2) The Food and Drug Administration wants Americans to have fewer heart attacks and strokes. But their proposed solution to the problem is to consider changing the status of salt in the diet. The way they...
Hormone Replacement Therapy Redux
It’s back. Even though articles like this one remind us that women who take HRT are at an increased risk of stroke, and your risk of this life-threatening event is not decreased if you are young or old, more articles are appearing that attempt to re-introduce this pharmaceutical. One...
Misleading Titles on Vitamin B Supplements
The title of this article is as follows: Supplements a solution for B6 deficiency, says study But the study said nothing of the kind. This is a glaring example of the slippery slope of inferrance. Here is the opening line, which follows the misleading header: “Researchers at Tufts University...
Food Additives
From the Center For Science in the Public Interest: Glossary ANTIOXIDANTS retard the oxidation of unsaturated fats and oils, colorings, and flavorings. Oxidation leads to rancidity, flavor changes, and loss of color. Most of those effects are caused by reaction of oxygen in the air with fats. CARCINOGEN is...
Weight Loss Pills, Products, Potions Finally Falter
Food and Drink reports that weight loss products are flagging under the weight of consumer skepticism. This is great news for the culture of health, as this points to the “growing up” of the diet consumer. Pills, powders, and other quick fix potions are being disregarded by people who...
When fat can be healthy
The New York Times reported today that there are some great ways to cook vegetables to maximize the vitamin content, and that eating them raw was not always as good for you. Here is the full article. But the most interesting aspect was in an afterthought at the bottom...
Baby Food For Parents
It is a catch-22. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. In this article in the New York Times, we hear the concerns of parents who want to buy the best formula for their babies, but end up giving them something that may be bad for them later....
Doctors Dissing Dairy Debatable
Our culture of health can be so misleading, especially when we hear reasonable. This woman is Amy Lanou, who co-authored this article dissing the prospective role of dairy in diet . If you read the release, you’ll see that they make it seem like she is an academic who...