Red Meat Tied To Kidney Cancer And Charred Meat To Pancreatic Cancer

April 22, 2009

Seeing a particular kind of food tied to the increased risk any form of cancer is always a cause for concern, but two similar foods tied to two separate forms of cancer should make one sit up and take notice. At least, that is what happened in my case when I read that red meat [...]

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Green Tea Is Much More Effective With Added Citrus Juice

April 21, 2009

Green Tea is rising in popularty these days as the antioxidant-rich liquid beverage of choice. I recently came across an article (although over a year old) that describes the results found by Mario Ferruzzi, assistant professor of food science at Purdue University in Indiana. He found that the antioxidant catechins in Green Tea were susceptible [...]

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Foods High In Fat And Sugar Can Derail The Best Efforts Of Dieters

April 20, 2009

If you have ever walked by a piece of chocolate cake and seen your hands and mouth behave independently of your conscious thoughts and you ended up devouring the treat before you even knew what was happening, then take heart - you are certainly not alone!
Dr. David Kessler, former chief of the Food and Drug [...]

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Quick, Calorie-Burning Exercises

April 19, 2009

If you have ever found yourself with too little time to complete a full workout but still a strong desire to maximise what little time you have left so you derive the maxmum benefit, then here’s something that might prove to be useful. The WebMD site carries a “10 Minutes To Burn Calories” artickle that [...]

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Olive Oil: Buying and Cooking Tips

April 18, 2009

A couple of weeks back, I wrote about why Olive Oil is so good for health, so I thought it might be a good idea to share some quick tips for choosing and using Olive Oil that I read about recently. Is Olive Oil Worth a Splurge? asks Alexandra Guarnaschelli, a writer for Yahoo Food. [...]

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