Tag: Diet

What Do You Mean By Healthy: In Controversial Move, FDA Set To Change Official Definition

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What Do You Mean By Healthy: In Controversial Move, FDA Set To Change Official Definition
FDA To Tell Us What Healthy Means–Using Outdated Models That Still Mistakenly Vilify Cholesterol, Fat There is power is words, even in an age of so many lies, half-truths, and obfuscations. Perhaps words are even more important in such an age, as we parse the statements coming out of government and companies’ PR shops like shamen examining the entrails of chickens to distill out the facts that may or may not be swaddled within the blanket of BS.… Read the rest

Avoiding Sugar Crashes Is Only Half The Battle–Here Are More Foods That Can Boost Your Mood

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Avoiding Sugar Crashes Is Only Half The Battle–Here Are More Foods That Can Boost Your Mood
Better Diet For Better Performance: How What You Eat Could Be Affecting Your Mood And How To Change It We’ve all surely had a bout or two with “stress eating,” or eating from a place of emotional need. The legendary pint of Ben and Jerry’s after a breakup is a common trope. But even beyond that, it is perfectly natural and on some level logical that we unthinkingly reach for a candy bar or other sweet snack when we are stressed: these foods make us feel good.… Read the rest

Captain Buzzkill In The Pantry: How Certain Foods Drive Down Your Mood And Energy

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Captain Buzzkill In The Pantry: How Certain Foods Drive Down Your Mood And Energy
Killing Us Softly: These Foods Can Be Mood-Killers Eating makes us happy. We are biologically wired this way, and it makes sense that we would have evolved like this: in order to live a hardscrabble life on the savannah hundreds of thousands of years ago, our ancestors would need every scrap of nutrient we could find. We register our bodies consuming the food we need to survive by activating pleasure centers in our brains, and this drives us to seek more of the same.… Read the rest

Whose Side Is the CDC Really On: How The Agency Is Talking Out Of Both Sides Of Its Face On Soft Drinks

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Whose Side Is the CDC Really On: How The Agency Is Talking Out Of Both Sides Of Its Face On Soft Drinks
The Sketchy CDC: How The Agency Is Playing Both Sides Of The Fence On Sugary Soft Drinks The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sure seems like it is in disarray these days. There’s the Zika panic, of course, which has launched a series of herky-jerky mandates from the agency, including a door-to-door urine sampling unit that cruised the neighborhood where the Zika-infected mosquitoes were thought to be found, to the travel ban issued for pregnant women going to Miami, to the heavy spraying of naled and other dangerous chemicals in neighborhoods where Zika-carrying mosquitoes are suspected to reside.… Read the rest

I Haven’t Slept A Wink: Some Reasons Why You Are Tired All The Time–And Some May Surprise You

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I Haven’t Slept A Wink: Some Reasons Why You Are Tired All The Time–And Some May Surprise You
Some Surprising Reasons Why You Might Be Tired All The Time–Hint: It’s Probably Not Due To Over-Exercise It’s an interesting phenomenon around the world: productivity increases are touted on all the business news programs, meaning that workers from fast food restaurants to factories on up to the loftiest office suites are doing their jobs more efficiently than ever before. Yet somehow people are working longer hours than ever before as well.… Read the rest

Cancer-Fighting Foods: How Diet And Food Choices Can Make A Huge Difference When It Comes To Preventing Cancer

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Cancer-Fighting Foods: How Diet And Food Choices Can Make A Huge Difference When It Comes To Preventing Cancer
Fighting Cancer The Preventative Way: These Vital Food Tips Will Help You Stave Off Cancer The Natural Way Cancer is big business, in case you haven’t heard. There are more people making a living from cancer than could have been imagined 100 years ago, or even 25 years ago. Estimates say the cancer industry pulls in around $120 billion a year in the U.S.… Read the rest

Altered Brain Activity In Obese Women: Study Shows That Activity In The Reward Centers Of Obese Women React Differently To Food

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Altered Brain Activity In Obese Women: Study Shows That Activity In The Reward Centers Of Obese Women React Differently To Food
Food Cues And Your Brain On Obesity: New Study Shows That Obese Women’s Brains Continue To React To Food Signals Even When They Are Full As we learn more and more about the brain, the more we learn about how the entirety of the human body is interconnected. From evidence that gut bacteria can control our cravings for certain foods to a recent study that seems to indicate that obese women’s brains continue to react to food stimuli even after they are full, there has never before been such a time when we might understand how the organism works.… Read the rest

A Gut Feeling: Research Demonstrates That Invasive Microbes In Our Gut Biome May Have More Sway Over Our Food Choices Than We Think

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A Gut Feeling: Research Demonstrates That Invasive Microbes In Our Gut Biome May Have More Sway Over Our Food Choices Than We Think
Thinking With Your Gut: Alarming New Study Suggests That The Microbes In Our Gut May Be In Charge Of What We ‘Choose’ To Eat, Contribute To Obesity In the classic Hollywood schlock sci-fi/horror film versions of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” people were replicated and replaced by alien pod people who looked and sounded more or less like their human counterparts, but who were driven by a separate, extraterrestrial agenda of their own.… Read the rest

Deficient: One Of The Most Common Vitamin Deficiencies Is Also One Of The Most Frequently Misdiagnosed–And Easily Treated

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Deficient: One Of The Most Common Vitamin Deficiencies Is Also One Of The Most Frequently Misdiagnosed–And Easily Treated
Vitamin B12 Deficiency: One Of The Most Frequently Misdiagnosed Conditions Could Also Be The Cause Of A Variety Of Maladies It’s hard to imagine, given the wide array of supplements and vitamin-enriched foods that we face every time we go to the grocery store that somehow, our ancestors managed to get everything they need to live and thrive living a hunting and foraging existence on the savannahs of Africa.… Read the rest