Nutrition
How Healthful Is That “Health Food”?
It’s almost fashionable to “eat healthy” these days. Pretty much any food in the supermarket now seems to have a claim to health and really how could you go wrong if you eat so-called “natural”, “whole grains” and “fat free” stuff all day? Well …….
The Wall Street Journal does some digging of its own [...]
FDA To Cheerios: Don’t Say It Lowers Cholesterol Or Reduces Risk Of Heart Disease
Cheerios, the quintessential American breakfast cereal, has been making some pretty tall claims on it’s boxes for the last two years and it looks like the long (and apparently slow) arms of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have finally caught up with it.”You can lower your cholesterol 4% in 6 weeks” claims the big [...]
Crazy Diets Over The Years
During the past few decades, Americans have tried one weird diet after another and even though we have precious little good results to show for all the effort, these diets continue to haunt us by making periodic appearances now and then. Glamor Magazine on MSNBC gives us a brief overview of the various dieting fads [...]
Children’s Allergy Risks Could Increase With Obesity
It’s the season for the sneezin’ and if you notice youngsters and adolescents sniffling around the house permanently hanging on to the tissue boxes, then you know the allergies are acting up. But before you react instinctively and get out the antihistamines, consider this news item from Yahoo News: Teenagers and adolescents who are obese [...]
FitnessMantra Quotes #2: Seven Words To Live By
Michael Pollan’s recent book “In Defense Of Food“ has a seven-word by-line, but those words are a lesson for a lifetime:
Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.
That’s as simple as it’s ever going to be put, folks.
Eat Food: as in “real” food (basically, if it’s boxed, available as a tube or slice, or has 30 [...]
