3 Reasons Why You Don’t Need To Fear Dietary Fat, According To Experts
For years, diet-culture and the media has demonized dietary fat. The 80s ushered in the low-fat diet craze, and our societal fear of fat has been prevalent ever since. Although fat is currently not as vilified as it’s been in the past, there are still many people who experience anxiety and guilt surrounding the consumption of high-fat foods. Additionally, fear-mongering surrounding the source and type of fat is increasingly common. For instance, there is an emerging trend of labeling some types of fat as “good” and others as “bad.”
As a psychotherapist who specializes in treating individuals w...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
When We Put Money Where Mouths Are, What Do People Eat?
The principal aim of the SNAP program, formerly “food stamps,” is important and simple: to ensure that poor people struggling with food insecurity have enough to eat. The program has always been of great public health importance, but in the aftermath of the great recession, more than one in seven American families found themselves on the SNAP rolls. Enrollment has recently declined, due likely to improving economic conditions. This shows the system works as intended, helping those who truly need it.
But even simple ideas can run into complications. SNAP funds cannot be used for tobacco or al...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
False Promises: Avoid ‘Miracle’ Rice and Just Eat a Carrot
Vandana Shiva. (Photo: The Seeds of Vandana Shiva film)By Dr Vandana ShivaNEW DELHI, Aug 10 2016 (IPS)Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution, died on September 9, 2009. Alfred G. Gilman died on December 23, 2015.Both were Nobel laureates and now both dead. Gilman was a signatory to a recent letter condemning Greenpeace and its opposition to genetic engineering. How many Nobel laureates does it take to write a letter? Easily ascertained — the dead Gilman and 106 others were enlisted in “supporting GMOs and golden rice”. Correct answer — 107, dead or alive.The laureates were rounded up by Val Giddings (senior...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 10, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Vandana Shiva 2 Tags: Biodiversity Crime & Justice Development & Aid Economy & Trade Food & Agriculture Gender Global Green Economy Headlines Health Women's Health Source Type: news
5 healing vitamins and minerals post hysterectomy
We all know that diet and nutrition play an important role in our ongoing health and well-being; after all we’ve seen the reports about salt, fat, sugar and all the other nasties over the year’s. What’s worrying though is when what we thought was bad turns out to be good (in moderation) and vice versa. Those foods we’ve been avoiding all these years, because they were the worst thing we could eat, are in fact an essential part of a health diet. So, this post is designed to help you understand five healing vitamins and minerals you can find find in every day essentials to eat (and drink) after a h...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - July 28, 2016 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health diet vitamin d Source Type: news
5 healing vitamins and minerals post hysterectomy
We all know that diet and nutrition play an important role in our ongoing health and well-being; after all we’ve seen the reports about salt, fat, sugar and all the other nasties over the year’s. What’s worrying though is when what we thought was bad turns out to be good (in moderation) and vice versa. Those foods we’ve been avoiding all these years, because they were the worst thing we could eat, are in fact an essential part of a health diet. So, this post is designed to help you understand five healing vitamins and minerals you can find find in every day essentials to eat (and drink) after a h...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - July 28, 2016 Category: OBGYN Authors: Linda Parkinson-Hardman Tags: Health diet vitamin d Source Type: news
Eat your veggies: How Colby Carrot got more kids to choose salad
Kids may turn their noses up at some vegetables, but when they see superhero characters such as Colby Carrot or Brian Broccoli extolling the virtues of veggies, they may be more eager to load up their salad plates. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - July 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
Inside peek: Test-driving clinical skills before rotations
The rising third-year student, tongue between his teeth, slowly drove his needle into a silicone pad meant to mimic human skin, then pulled his thread tight and started in again.
Steady hands and keen focus meant clean stitches at the suturing table, one of seven skills stations at the clinical skills workshop.
Theodore Zaki sealed up the gash with a classic horizontal mattress suture, not unlike the stitches in a baseball, then straightened up and took a satisfied breath.
“You want to do anything you can to avoid looking like an idiot on the first da...
Source: AMA Wire - July 11, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Inside peak: Test-driving clinical skills before rotations
The rising third-year student, tongue between his teeth, slowly drove his needle into a silicone pad meant to mimic human skin, then pulled his thread tight and started in again.
Steady hands and keen focus meant clean stitches at the suturing table, one of seven skills stations at the clinical skills workshop.
Theodore Zaki sealed up the gash with a classic horizontal mattress suture, not unlike the stitches in a baseball, then straightened up and took a satisfied breath.
“You want to do anything you can to avoid looking like an idiot on the first da...
Source: AMA Wire - July 11, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Are We There Yet?
Are we there yet?
The Practice:
Relax, you've arrived.
Why?
We spend so much of our time trying to get somewhere.
Part of this comes from our biological nature. To survive, animals -- including us -- have to be goal-directed, leaning into the future.
It's certainly healthy to pursue wholesome aims, like paying the rent on time, raising children well, healing old pain, or improving education.
But it's also important to see how this focus on the future -- on endless striving, on getting the next task done, on climbing the next mountain -- can get confused and stressful.
It's confused because the brain:
Overestimates ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Turmeric: Bali’s Anti-Cancer Tonic
I’m always happy to find things in my travels to bring back to you. Today I want to tell you about a miracle of nature called turmeric.
Turmeric has been used to treat a wide variety of conditions.
You can read about it in-depth in my latest book, Healing Herbs of Paradise.
The roots of this exotic leafy plant contain curcumin, a very powerful antioxidant that also has remarkable anti-inflammatory properties.1,2,3
What Does Curcumin Do?
Curcumin neutralizes free radicals… those nasty little chemicals that travel through your body and cause damage to healthy cells and cell membranes.
Which means curcumin effectivel...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - May 25, 2016 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Al Sears Tags: Cancer Source Type: news
Stop Eating Your Emotions! Three Unusual Strategies to Keep Emotional Eating At Bay
Let's get real... overeating sucks!
There is nothing good about it at all.
You feel uncomfortable because you're so full.
You are mad or even disgusted with yourself for giving in.
You feel like a failure.
And the worst part, looking back you probably didn't even savor each bite to make the pain worth it.
If this has ever happened to you, just know you are not alone and more importantly, there IS a solution! In the following blog, I will teach you three counter-intuitive strategies that will squash out your emotional overeating problem once and for all! Practice the following three strategies as often as you can for the...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Carrot genome paints picture of domestication, could help improve crops
Sometimes, the evolutionary history of a species can be found in a fossil record. Other times, rocks and imprints must be swapped for DNA and genetic fingerprints. The latter is the case for the good-for-your-eyes carrot, a top crop whose full genetic code was just deciphered by a team of researchers. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 9, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Carrot genome paints picture of domestication, could help improve crops
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) Sometimes, the evolutionary history of a species can be found in a fossil record. Other times, rocks and imprints must be swapped for DNA and genetic fingerprints. The latter is the case for the good-for-your-eyes carrot, a top crop whose full genetic code was just deciphered by a team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin-Madison horticulture professor and geneticist Phil Simon. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - May 9, 2016 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Is Your Mind Wandering?
Is your mind wandering?
The Practice:
Pay attention.
Why?
Moment to moment, the flows of thoughts and feelings, sensations and desires, and conscious and unconscious processes sculpt your nervous system like water gradually carving furrows and eventually gullies on a hillside. Your brain is continually changing its structure. The only question is: Is it for better or worse?
In particular, because of what's called "experience-dependent neuroplasticity," whatever you hold in attention has a special power to change your brain. Attention is like a combination spotlight and vacuum cleaner: it illuminates what it rests upon...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
