Fat People Just Want To Be As Healthy As They Can Be

April 27, 2009

One thing that everyone would surely agree with is that the overweight and obese are often not looked at in the best light by society. There is often an unspoken disdain, pity or even suspicion about how honest they are in their efforts to lose weight. Well, it looks like the affected people want to [...]

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Bad Food Choices Could Result From Healthy Menu Options

April 26, 2009

Yes, that headline made no sense me either, but apparently it’s true! WebMD reports on a Duke University study that uncovered a weird human behavior that is called “vicarious goal fulfillment”. Gavan Fitzsimons, who was in charge of the study says:
“We’ve found that the presence of a healthy item leads people to choose the one [...]

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Doughnuts Are Now Nutritious Health-Foods In Europe

April 25, 2009

What happens when you allow a Government Commission to decide what is healthy for the citizens? You get food-standards that are so laughably lax that most junk foods can now be considered quite nutritious!
New European Commission Food-Thresholds passed by a group in Brussels have made a mockery of deciding what is healthy. For example, for [...]

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Name That Shame #3

April 24, 2009

Time for another edition of Name That shame and today I pick one of my favorite “Hall Of Shamers”. These guys promote their products as - get this - “weight-loss” products, but one look at their nutrition label and ingredients and you’ll see just what the food industry can get away with.
This label is taken [...]

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When It Comes To Sugars, Glucose Is Better Than Fructose

April 23, 2009

Of all the different sugars our foods are sweetened with, there seems to be a difference between glucose, sucrose and fructose. University of California Davis reporters have discovered that our bodies process these sugars differently and fructose is markedly more dangerous to our system than the other two sugars, actually increasing the risk of developing [...]

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