When people focus on eating healthier they forget about watching their condiments. It’s as if those tasty little sauces don’t count. In reality, our favorite taste enhancers can be an unwanted source of sugar, excess salt, trans fats, dyes, chemicals, genetically engineered ingredients and calories. Most condiments are highly processed and have little nutritional value. [...]
While cancer and other health issues are on the rise in America, one group of Americans have escaped this statistic. According to a recent study published in the Journal “Cancer Causes and Control” the Amish people have virtually no cancer within their population. Researchers from Ohio State studied the Amish to see if their cancer [...]
The fastest growing and most exciting topic in health research right now is the microbiome, which is the ecosystem of bacteria living in each of our bodies. This bacterial colony is so abundant, it outnumbers the number of cells in our body 10 to 1. Of course, there’s bad bacteria, which causes disease, but the [...]
Most people think that consuming too much high-cholesterol food will raise bad cholesterol levels in their body. This is a dietary myth. Eating foods high in dietary cholesterol and saturated fats does not raise bad cholesterol to harmful levels. The concern with high cholesterol levels in the body is that it can harm heart health [...]
When antibiotics were invented in the mid 20th century, just after World War II, they were hailed as the biggest medical breakthrough of our time. Infections that used to kill people were now easy to treat. Many public health issues were suddenly eradicated. But it turns out that too much of a good thing can [...]
Did you know that if you eat out at fast food restaurants, you’re likely consuming up to 100 ingredients from each entrée? Many of those ingredients are not even food, but an impressive list of chemicals, food conditioners and preservatives. Recently, a food activist named Vani Hari from Foodbabe.com, exposed the ingredient list in [...]
Managing and balancing your blood sugar is a cornerstone of health and can help manage or prevent several diseases associated with a condition called metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a dangerous condition that can lead to symptoms like high blood sugar, high blood pressure and weight gain around the middle that’s tough to lose. Metabolic [...]
I’ve been vindicated after twenty years of debating other health professionals on this controversial topic. Current research by Harvard Medical School professor of pediatrics and nutrition, David Ludwig, has shown that not all calories are equal when it comes to weight gain. His studies show that calories ingested versus calories burned is not a [...]
If you are trying to eat clean and healthy it’s important to pay attention to not just the chemicals and preservatives intentionally put in your food, but also to the ones found in the food packaging and manufacturing materials used to make it. The problems with some processed foods is that they are made in [...]
Cold, hard numbers are hard to translate into real life experience, so they often lose their meaning. They are just too abstract. That’s why the calories per serving listed on food labels do not dissuade many people from eating them. Also, they can sometimes be misleading, as one small soft drink can be split into [...]
