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The
Health Risk of Trans Fats in Your Diet - Every time I think of all the people who have had heart attacks and developed Adult Onset Diabetes because they followed the governments guidelines, I get indigestion.
Trans fats, or killer fats, are formed through the process of heating vegetable oil in the presence of hydrogen gas. The hydrogen gas causes the vegetable oil to harden at room temperature to grease-like consistency, creating chemical changes that are proven detriments to our health.
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Acid
Reflux & The Purple Pill . . . Not! - Heartburn, reflux, acid indigestion, whatever, have become so popular we now have a scientific name for it - "GERD" - Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease.
What is "Acid Reflux" or any of the other scary sounding names? It's nothing more than your stomach acid slipping past the little trap door (sphincter) that separates your stomach and esophagus.
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Reminiscence
by an Octogenarian - So how do you reach 80 and beyond and be healthy, in great shape, and look forward to continue to live a long, joyous, healthy, quality life? Just follow the simple health and nutrition rules that I have given you. Read more...
Granola
and Other "Health" Bars? Better Take Another Look! - Snack food manufacturers know that people are getting wise to figuring out how much sugar they put in their products by reading the labels, so here's what they do: They put a small amount of lots of different sugars into the product. That way, no single kind of sugar is the main ingredient by weight; but add them all up, and sugar outweighs anything else in the recipe.
Here are some of the many "disguises" of sugar: honey, dextrose, fructose, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, sorbitol, fruit juice concentrate, galactose, lactose, polydextrose, mannitol, sorbitol, xylitol, malodextrin and turbinado sugar.Read more...
Hydrogenated
Oils . . . The Silent Killers - The best way to change this monster health destructive situation is to fight back with your dollar, and tell your grocer, your baker, your friends and family, that you won't be buying these silent killer foods anymore!
If the food product stops moving off the shelf, it will stop being made and manufacturers and bakers will give you what you want in healthy foods! Remember...the dollar is king!
Write to your congress man or woman. Their health is endangered as well. Tell them to ban these oils in the USA and solve the Medicare problem. Read more...
The
Sun . . . Good, Bad, or Indifferent? - A 30 Year Expert Gives the Lowdown on Sunshine
Well...here's a professional who dared to say that sunlight was really good for your health and I think you had better listen up:
In a recent New York Times article, a dermatologist named Dr. Michael Holick of Boston University Medical Center, stated that sunlight is good for you because it aids in the body's production of vitamin D. Read more...
Kitchen
Cutting Boards and Bacteria...Plastic vs. Wood - It happens that a few years ago (I recently found out) researchers were surprised to find that wooden cutting boards did not sustain the growth of bacteria, but their plastic counterparts did.
Just the opposite of what everyone believed!
Their research was partially stimulated by the ruling of numerous health department mandates to the effect that commercial establishments must use plastic cutting boards on the assumption that wood (with all its cracks, crevices, and knife cuts) would harbor micro-organisms, and that seamless hard plastic cutting boards (with only superficial grooving from knives) could be cleaned more easily and effectively.
In the course of their study, the researchers found that micro-organisms simply didn't survive on wooden cutting boards that were cleaned after use (looks like butcher blocks are here to stay!). And plastic cutting boards...even after similar cleaning...did in fact harbor bacteria with regularity. Shocked me!
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Nuts
and Sunshine - Research on the nutritional value of nuts is huge. Both the British Medical Journal and the Archives of Internal Medicine have published studies on the positive effects on nuts in our diets.
And as far back as 1993, the New England Journal of Medicine reported that women enrolled in the Iowa Women's Study who ate nuts on a regular basis had a 40 percent reduction in heart disease risk.
As for nuts making you fat, Read more...
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