The One Food Nutritionists Eat Every Single Day
By Sarah-Jane Bedwell, SELF
While registered dietitians certainly recommend balance, variety, and moderation to ensure you get all the necessary nutrients that you need, they have "personal superfoods" that they reach for on a regular basis for both nutrition and convenience purposes. From turmeric smoothies to chocolate and peanut butter combos, dietitians around the country share the foods they eat every single day.
Citrus Fruit
I eat some form of vitamin C and potassium packed citrus each day because the delightfully refreshing flavors are a great reminder that good nutrition should taste great! It might be a 6 ounce...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Antibiotics On Food Causing Children To Have Allergic Reactions To Fruits, Vegetables
BOSTON (CBS) – More children are appearing to have allergic reactions to fruits and vegetables, but this has nothing to do with the food.
Farmers often use antibiotics to keep pests away and that’s a problem for some children.
A case highlighted in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology explained how a 10-year-old suffered a life threatening reaction after eating blueberry pie.
The girl had a history of asthma, seasonal allergies, and allergies to milk and penicillin. None of the ingredients in the pie were triggers for her.
It turns out the problem was the antibiotic streptomycin. The blueberries had been t...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - February 24, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: deanreddington Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Watch Listen Allergies Antibiotics Dr. Mallika Marshall Fruit Produce Vegetables Source Type: news
Diet, Dog and Dogma
The release yesterday of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee report does not officially give us new dietary guidelines for Americans just yet. Famously, there is a political element to this process. The scientists making up the advisory committee do just that: they advise. What actually emerges as guidance is determined by the federal agencies in charge, USDA and DHHS.
Over the years, though, as the involvement of politics in our official dietary guidance has become ever more transparent, thanks at least partly to the efforts of Marion Nestle after chairing one such advisory committee, they have also tended to ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cecilia Westbrook Makes Yogurt With Her Own Vaginal Bacteria (NSFW)
Here's some food for thought: It is possible to make yogurt using bacteria from a woman's vagina, but it's probably not a good idea.
Last August, Cecilia Westbrook, an MD/PhD student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, decided to see if the stomach-churning idea was feasible, according to VICE.
Westbrook noted that the most common bacteria found in a healthy vagina was lactobacillus, the same bacteria commonly found in yogurt. She figured she could easily whip up a batch of yogurt just by extracting some of her vagina's bacteria with a wooden spoon.
Homemade yogurt is traditionally made by mixing a small amount of ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 11, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Blueberries may help control blood pressure
Eating blueberries every day might improve borderline high blood pressure in middle-aged women, according to a small U.S. study. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
