There has been a lot of news recently about how what we eat is changing our health. Unfortunately, it is not for the better. These are a few of the headlines from nutritional science research in the last few weeks. New Evidence Links Ultra-Processed Foods With a Range of Health Risks Millions of Cardiovascular Deaths Attributed to Not Eating Enough …
5 More Reasons
As if you needed more reasons to eat a healthy diet here are 5 facts about food in the headlines this week. What is that? A study conducted by Hitchcock farms, a farming business based in California, found that 39% of Americans couldn’t recognize common fruits and vegetables. You can take the test yourself here. The people who took the …
Prevention is worth a pound or two.
The two times we are most likely to gain weight are over the holidays, November – January, or when you go on vacation. A new, but a small study suggests there is one very easy way to prevent gaining extra weight. Daily weigh-ins. The people who weighed themselves daily in The Obesity Society study, either maintained or lost weight during …
Sitting, standing, and exercise
If you have a desk job you might have invested in a standing desk to counteract all those hours sitting behind a screen. Does it help? Or maybe you think “because you exercise” (three words that cause more harm than good) you can use the rest. How much exercise do you need to do to reverse the effects of sitting …
Preserve your health
A food ingredient used in many processed foods to prevent these foods from going bad may be harming your health. Propionate, a food ingredient commonly used baked goods, artificial flavourings and animal food, could be causing disruptions in hormones related to weight gain. Propionate may cause a cascade of metabolic reactions leading to insulin resistance and excessive levels of insulin. …
Ask Your Doctor
Ask your doctor if eating better is right for you. How does your doctor talk to you about your health? Do they believe that disease prevention is important? The recent study published in The Lancet proves that our diet is killing us and 20% of all deaths worldwide, or approximately 11 million per year, are due to poor diet. That …
Are you responsible?
A little secret When it comes to our health we do some things that aren’t really helping. This is the next instalment in the list of The Top 12 Worst Things We are Doing to Our Health. One of the things that struck me about the discussion on the 12 Worst Things from the conference I attended was that this …
How to Reduce Your Risk of Heart Disease
Three daily habits that change your health Research presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 68th Annual Scientific Session wanted to show how lifestyle factors are important and often overlooked factors (in research) when it comes to preventing heart disease. Researchers from Greece studied two lifestyle factors, television watching and eating breakfast. This is what they found about breakfast, screen …
7 habits that can prevent stroke.
You can prevent having a stroke. The number of people having strokes is going up and the age of having a stroke is going down. Actor Luke Perry who died this week was only 52 and he looked fine. According to the CDC 87% of strokes are ischemic strokes which are caused by clots that stop the blood flow in …
3 ways to Marie Kondo your cells
Marie Kondo for your cells If you haven’t heard about Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, she is everywhere and cleaning up everything. I have never had a problem cleaning up, so I can’t comment on her techniques. Your cells need cleaning too and while Marie’s techniques won’t help you with this, there there are three ways to …
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