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Jamie Oliver Shows You Your Food

Feb 19

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Ever wonder what’s in your food?
We are very fortunate that the manufacturers are legally obligated to label their products with the ingredients in them. Imagine how pissed off people would become if there were no labels and you had to blindly accept whatever you thought was in that package of food. Well, no one ever bothers to read the labels, despite this luxury, and those who do read them are lost in complex terminology.

Get your head right, learn the terms, read the labels and fight bad food by eating right!

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Blueberries are not Real

Jan 20

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The blueberries found in blueberry bagels, cereals, breads and muffins are REAL blueberries right? Wrong! Award-winning investigative journalist Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, exposes the deceptive chemical ingredients and dishonest marketing of “blueberry” products from big-name food and cereal companies. The blueberries, it turns out, are made from artificial colors, hydrogenated oils and liquid sugars. See more episodes at www.FoodInvestigations.com

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How to Be Healthy, 10 Steps [without drugs]

Jan 11

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There are certain basic tenets of optimal health that have always remained permanent truths, and by consistently adhering to them, you give yourself the best chance at a long and healthy life.

These 10 strategies promote overall health, as opposed to chasing and watering down various symptoms:

  1. Eat a healthy diet that’s right for your nutritional type (paying very careful attention to keeping your insulin levels down) — This aspect is so important for optimal health; I now offer my entire online nutritional typing program for free. Read the rest of this entry »

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Proven: Krill Oil Improves Your Attention Span (and ADD/ADHD Kids)

Dec 20

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Krill. Blue Whales LOVE it!

From Dr. Mercola

I first started hearing about the benefits of krill oil — a high-quality source of animal-based omega-3 fats – for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) back in 2006. The following year, in 2007, a clinical study examining the effects of krill oil on adults diagnosed with ADHD also showed positive results. In that study, patients improved their ability to concentrate by an average of over 60 percent after taking a daily 500mg dose of krill oil for six months. They also reported a 50 percent improvement in planning skills, and close to 49 percent improvement in social skills. These latest findings, which involve children and teens with ADHD, have not yet been published, but the results are again very promising. Additional clinical follow-up studies are also planned, to further investigate the beneficial impact of krill oil on attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This is all great news! Granted, of the 4.5 million American children who have been diagnosed with ADHD, an estimated 20 percent have likely been misdiagnosed, but an enormous amount of children do have neurological problems – the exact cause of which has yet to be teased out by science.

Diet and Brain Health

Unfortunately, the conventional drug treatments most often employed can do far more harm than good. Read the rest of this entry »

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Professor Who Lost Weight on Twinkies Only Proves

Dec 4

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Saturday, December 04, 2010
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles…)

(NaturalNews) Over the last month or so, the mainstream media has been making a huge deal about Kansas State nutrition professor Mark Haub who lost 27 pounds eating mostly Doritos, Twinkies and other junk food while drinking Diet Mountain Dew. But as usual, they’re misrepresenting the story.

You can lose weight on chemotherapy, too. And most chemotherapy patients lose all kinds of weight due to the mass poisoning of their bodies with synthetic chemicals. Does that mean chemotherapy is weight loss medicine, too? (Don’t laugh, I’ve seen similar conclusions written up in the mainstream media…)

Virtually anything can be promoted as a “weight loss miracle” in the following way:

The cashew diet?

Consider this: You can lose weight by starving yourself (by eating nothing). That promotes rapid weight loss as long as you stick to it — which is, of course, nearly impossible to do for very long. Read the rest of this entry »

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Is Your Favorite Ice Cream Made With Artificial Hormones?

Nov 28

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It may surprise you to learn that a significant portion of U.S. milk is actually genetically engineered. This milk, and the ice cream, cheese, and myriad of other dairy products made from it, contains genetically engineered bovine growth hormone, or rBGH.

U.S. milk producers treat their dairy cattle with rBGH because it boosts milk production. But this artificial growth hormone also increases udder infections in cows, leading to pus in the milk along with excessive use of antibiotics in the cows, which is triggering the creation of antibiotic-resistant superbugs and leaving residues of antibiotics in your dairy.

Worse still, milk treated with rBGH also contains higher levels of insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1), a hormone linked to breast, prostate and colon cancers in humans.

How Was This Cancer-Causing Hormone Ever Approved?

You may be interested to know, especially before you go out to buy your next pint of ice cream or gallon of milk, that rBGH is NOT a hormone that’s commonly used around the world. On the contrary, it’s been banned in Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Australia and all 27 nations of the European Union. Read the rest of this entry »

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Happy Meal Ban in SF

Nov 9

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(NaturalNews) But San Francisco’s recent decision to outlaw the Happy Meal — unless it meets certain criteria — may not actually achieve much as far as mitigating the obesity epidemic, according to some.

The recent decision by San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors includes mandates that in order for a children’s meal to contain a toy, it must include fruits and vegetables. The entire meal must be less than 600 calories, and only 35 percent of those calories can come from fat. The included beverage must also not be sugary or fatty — meaning no milkshakes or soda beverages.

While advocates tout the decision as a giant leap towards ending childhood obesity, critics say that children will likely still be drawn towards the unhealthy food itself, even without the toy. And according to Janet Helm, R.D., author of a blog called Nutrition Unplugged, the ban could actually have the unintended consequence of making children want Happy Meals even more, giving the meals a type of “forbidden fruit” appeal.

“In the end, what have we taught families about how to make more nutritious choices?” she is quoted as asking in an MSNBC report. And her question is legitimate, considering that parents are ultimately the ones making the decisions to purchase Happy Meals for their children. They may now simply resort to purchasing the larger adult-sized meals for their kids instead.

Standing up against corporate food giants that entice the nation’s children towards junk food with crafty marketing is a definite step in the right direction. But some health advocates believe that continuing to educate the public — and parents in particular — about proper nutrition and how to make quality food choices will make the biggest impact towards improving health and quelling obesity.

Sources for this story include:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3999138…

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Food, Dieting and Health

Jul 24

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By Lance D’Aoust

Here is my OPINION and Experience about Food, Dieting and Health

The way you look at food and eating is important because going on a special diet is the reason you will not lose weight and keep it off. If you want to be healthy and stay healthy you cannot go on and off diets. The way you think is the solution.

  • Food is not entertainment. Even though it can be so much fun!
  • Boredom is not the time to eat. Your mouth wants it, not your body.
  • Food is for survival. Your acceptance of this concept is critical.

Hunger is a Complex Mechanism that is Simple to Understand:

  • When your stomach is low on food it sends a signal to the brain.
    • This signal is mistakenly accepted by people as the signal to eat. It isn’t. It is the signal to hunt or gather your next meal before it’s too late.
      • Because you don’t live in a cave you have the luxury of doing nothing all the way up until you actually need to eat. Or you can go eat something right now. But because you don’t actually need it yet, you are only going to be collecting mass rather than sustaining yourself. Read the rest of this entry »

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Diet Tricks That Really Work

Jun 8

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According to Live Science, these diet tricks will actually help you keep off the pounds:

Avoid corn syrup

diet tricksScience shows that high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is bad news. One study showed that rats who drank HFCS-sweetened beverages gained significantly more weight than rats consuming the same amount of calories in sugar.

Keep away from junk food — It’s Addictive

Junk food can affect your brain in ways similar to drug abuse.

Structure meal times

Long stretches without food make people crave energy-dense snacks, which can make healthy choices difficult.

Satisfy your body — especially at breakfast

A protein-rich breakfast leaves you Read the rest of this entry »

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Starve Cancer with Your Diet

May 19

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Imagine that one medical advancement held the promise to conquer cancer, perhaps within your lifetime.Now imagine that same advance has the potential to also end more than 70 of life’s most threatening conditions, affecting one billion people worldwide.This is the promise of angiogenesis, the first medical revolution of the 21st century.

Dr. William Li
President and Medical Director
The Angiogenesis Foundation

William Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting foods that cut off the supply lines and beat cancer at its own game.

Angiogenesis, new capillary blood vessel growth, as seen by researchers in the laboratory.

William Li heads the Angiogenesis Foundation, a nonprofit that is re-conceptualizing global disease fighting.

Many of society’s most devastating diseases — cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and Alzheimer’s, to name a few — share a common denominator: faulty angiogenesis, the body’s growth of new capillary blood vessels. Given excessive or insufficient blood vessel growth, serious health issues arise. While researching under Harvard surgeon Judah Folkman, who pioneered the study of angiogenesis, Li learned how angiogenesis-based medicine helps patients overcome numerous diseases by restoring the balance of blood-vessel growth.

Li co-founded the Angiogenesis Foundation in 1994. The foundation’s Project ENABLE — a global system that integrates patients, medical experts and healthcare professionals — democratizes the spread and implementation of knowledge about angiogenesis-based medicines, diet and lifestyle. Some 40,000 physicians have been educated on new treatments, ranging from cancer care to wound care, by the foundation’s faculty of medical experts, and they are bringing new, lifesaving and disease-preventing techniques to people around the world.

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