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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FDA To Tell Us What Healthy Means–Using Outdated Models That Still Mistakenly Vilify Cholesterol, Fat There is power is words, even in an age of so many lies, half-truths, and obfuscations.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

Strategy Is The Key To Healthy Eating: How To Stock Your Fridge For Success

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Strategy Is The Key To Healthy Eating: How To Stock Your Fridge For Success
Healthy Eating Strategies And Stocking Your Fridge For Success It’s hard to maintain a healthy diet in this go-go world, but setting yourself up for success can go a long way toward keeping a healthy weight and avoiding unhealthy snacking. Part of the reason why garbage snack foods and fast food are so tempting is of course the documented truth that food manufacturers pay chemists lots and lots of money to concoct food formulae that are literally as addicting as possible through a combination of fats, salt and sugar.… Read the rest

Why You Shouldn’t Even Bother Buying Low-Fat Cheese, Or Why Do They Take Us For Idiots?

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Why You Shouldn’t Even Bother Buying Low-Fat Cheese, Or Why Do They Take Us For Idiots?
The Low-Fat Is A Lie: Why Low-Fat Cheeses, Ice Cream And Cookies Are Arguably Worse For You Than The Real Thing There is a psychological secret about humans that some restaurant owners have figured out: we claim we want more choices in everything, but this isn’t really true. If we are offered too many choices, our brains seize up and we become paralyzed, “debilitated by choice,” in the words of Professor Sheena Iyengar, a researcher who has studied choice for two decades.… Read the rest

Feed Your Head: Here Are Some Great Foods That Will Help Activate Your Brai

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Feed Your Head: Here Are Some Great Foods That Will Help Activate Your Brai
Total Recall: Here Are Some Awesome Brain Foods That Will Get You Firing On All Cylinders Have you ever had one of those heavy lunches in the middle of the work day where, upon returning to the office you just never were able to get your head working right again? You felt logy, not in the best mood, and mentally dragged down–in sports terms you were a half step behind.… Read the rest

The Dangers Of Vitamin E Deficiency And How You Can Avoid It

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The Dangers Of Vitamin E Deficiency And How You Can Avoid It
Over 75 Percent Of Americans And Britons Are Vitamin E Deficient–Why You Should Make Sure You’re Not One Of Them With so many supplements out there, and so many substances for health-conscious individuals to be aware of–it seems like there are ten new studies in the news every day highlighting some deficiency or toxicity we are unwittingly getting in our regular diets–its hard to know which ones are really vital.… Read the rest

Lies, Damn Lies And Labels: How The FDA Screws Up Even The Definition Of ‘Healthy’

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Lies, Damn Lies And Labels: How The FDA Screws Up Even The Definition Of ‘Healthy’
The FDA And ‘Healthy’ Food: How An Avocado Is Less ‘Healthy’ Than Frosted Flakes The labeling law brouhaha over Vermont’s efforts to inform its citizens whether they were eating genetically modified food, and therefore food that is routinely heavily treated with chemicals, herbicides and pesticides has ended for now. With Congressional slaves to the big food industry falling in line to instead enact a joke of a labeling law that does more to hide what is in our food and supercedes laws like Vermont’s Americans now know even less than we did before about what we are eating.… Read the rest

The Fight Against Cancer Begins On Your Plate: How To Choose The Right Foods To Reduce Your Chances Of Getting Cancer

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The Fight Against Cancer Begins On Your Plate: How To Choose The Right Foods To Reduce Your Chances Of Getting Cancer
Food Choices And Your Chances Of Getting Cancer: How Simple Dietary Choices Can Make A Huge Difference With all the advances modern medicine–and alternative medical research–is making in the war against cancer, there is plenty to hope for, in terms of a future where even if you do comes down with some form of cancer, you will have a fighting chance.… 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

Nanoparticles Are Unregulated–And They Are Increasingly Ending Up In Your Food

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Nanoparticles Are Unregulated–And They Are Increasingly Ending Up In Your Food
Food, Supplements, Even Packaging And Labeling Of Fruit And Vegetables May Contain Dangerous, Unregulated Nanoparticles. FDA: So What? So you know that delicious powdered coffee creamer you use at the office? The kind that miraculously turns out to behave very much like actual cream once it hits the coffee, all silky smooth and nicely blended in? How about that bright-white gum you like to chew after a coffee, making your mouth feel all minty fresh and clean?… Read the rest