Tag: diets
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Researchers Find Childhood Diet Affects Cognitive Decline Rate
Researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago have found that adults who occasionally went hungry during childhood had a slower rate of decline in their cognitive abilities as they aged than those who always had enough to eat as children.
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Thanksgiving Season Left Martha Stewart with Salmonella Infection
from foodsafetynews.com: Celebrity chef Martha Stewart came down with a Salmonella infection in late November, reported the New York Post this week. Stewart was forced to cancel a number of post-Thanksgiving engagements due to her illness. “It really hit me hard and I was in bed for days. It was terrible,” she told the Post.…
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Why Half of America May Have Impaired Brain Function by 2030
from mercola.com: A new UCLA study is the first to show how a steady diet high in fructose can damage your memory and learning. The study was published in the Journal of Physiology. Researchers investigated the effects of high-fructose syrup, similar to high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a cheap sweetener six times sweeter than cane…
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#BingeAndPurge: Weather Wars, Steroids, Nuggets and more
#Geoengineering Could Turn Skies White: Scientific American* Video: Isaac Hammers Key West, Florida Social Spotlight* Video: CNN on Isaac + Cholera 400,000 Haitians At Risk* Bat Lyssavirus Fears At Bat House in Cape Tribulation* USADA strips Lance Armstrong of Tour De France titles, issues lifetime ban from cycling over steroids use* Diet foods & drinks…
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How Fructose Turns ON Your “Fat Switch”
from mercola.com: If you have ever struggled losing weight and keeping it off, you already know what a challenge that can be. Dr. Richard Johnson, chief of the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension at the University of Colorado has published hundreds of articles and two books on this topic: The Sugar Fix, and most…
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Fat, Not Glucose, is the Preferred Fuel for Your Body
from mercola.com: While we may consider ourselves to be at the pinnacle of human development, our modern food manufacturing processes have utterly failed at improving health and increasing longevity. During the Paleolithic period, many thousands of years ago, our ancestors ate primarily vegetables, fruit, nuts, roots and meat—and a wide variety of it. This diet…
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Decade-Long Feeding Study Reveals Significant Health Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods
from mercola.com: Scientists in Norway have released results from experimental feeding studies carried out over a 10-year period, and the verdict is in: If you want to avoid obesity, then avoid eating genetically engineered (GE) corn, corn-based products, and animals that are fed a diet of GE grain. As reported by Cornucopia.org, the project also…
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A Calorie, Is A Calorie, Is A Calorie. Or Is It?
It may not be long before the food industry will be proven wrong about their two favorite messages: All calories are created equal, and it’s all about personal responsibility. Well, it appears that science may be one step closer to proving at least half of that equation wrong and that in fact; all calories are…