Kale or Steak? Change in Diet Key to U.N. Plan to End Hunger by 2030Kale or Steak? Change in Diet Key to U.N. Plan to End Hunger by 2030
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Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - September 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news
A Long Last Look at Lettuce
This is it: the last of the lettuce. If I'm lucky, I'll see a fresh vegetable of some kind again in four weeks. As I look at it there in the bowl, I find myself thinking for the first time that lettuce is kind of amazing. First, it's actually pretty cool-looking. At the edges, it resembles the ruffled skin of some old elephant or the feathers of a very young bird. Near its heart, it resembles a frilly green razor. Second, this substance, which is more than 95 percent water and has almost no calories, is, somehow, DELICIOUS. It doesn't taste like much in and of itself, but the experience of eating it allows you to inges...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 11, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
The Vitamin That Defeats Dementia…
Technology is a gift, and I appreciate all the options we have today that our ancestors could not even imagine.
But there’s a price that comes with it.
Toxins from our industrial world are changing the playing field, and one of the most troubling side effects is showing up in my patients at a very young age.
You see, my patients with early-onset dementia have been getting younger and younger.
I used to see the disease start in people in their late 50s. But now I’m seeing more and more patients in their late 40s.
Now, a new study in the Surgical Neurology International journal confirms what I’ve found. Res...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - September 11, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jeff Brodsky Tags: Brain Health Source Type: news
Kale or steak? Change in diet key to U.N. plan to end hunger by 2030
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In trendy, hipster London or New York, it's all about juicing, vegan diets and snacking on kale crisps. Thousands of miles away, in Nairobi or Bogota, the middle classes are more likely to reach for roasted goat or a juicy steak. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
6 Healthy Habits That You Might Be Overdoing
SPECIAL FROM Next Avenue By Linda Melone Taking any action to an extreme — even a healthy one — can have negative consequences. Striving to lose weight becomes unhealthy if it turns into an eating disorder, for example. Exercising until you develop an injury or a serious health issue such as rhabdomyolysis (when muscle tissue breaks down and releases into the blood) can be life-threatening. Other, less extreme, examples can also work against your goal of creating healthier habits and a healthy body. Here are six ways that common, good practices can sometimes work against you: 1. You load up on healthy ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
In Defense of School Food
As the deadline for the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act approaches, the debate around school food has reached a cacophony of opinions. The politics of the debate are intense. Jerry Hagstrom at National Journal provided a great overview incase you have not been following the theatrics. At the core of the school food debate is the balancing act of priorities between public health and economic viability. Advocates for healthier school food do not have to struggle to make the case for keeping the nutrition requirements passed with the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The nutrition standards are evidence ba...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 2, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Best Protein You Can Eat, According To Nutritionists
Protein is the key to keeping cravings at bay, building lean muscle and dropping those last few pounds. But according to a new review published in Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, it’s not just how much protein you eat that’s important: It's where you get your protein that also matters.
The reason is threefold. First of all, every source of protein -- from chicken to peanuts -- contains a different array of amino acids, the building blocks of protein. Of the 20 various amino acids, nine are “essential,” meaning you can only get them from food. So it’s especiall...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Best Protein You Can Eat, According To Nutritionists
Protein is the key to keeping cravings at bay, building lean muscle and dropping those last few pounds. But according to a new review published in Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, it’s not just how much protein you eat that’s important: It's where you get your protein that also matters. The reason is threefold. First of all, every source of protein -- from chicken to peanuts -- contains a different array of amino acids, the building blocks of protein. Of the 20 various amino acids, nine are “essential,” meaning you can only get them from food. So it’s especiall...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Now It’s In The Air We Breathe
When I started practicing medicine, I made a discovery that changed my view of the world forever.
It was something few understood at the time.
I’m talking about an “alien molecule” that gets into your blood and reprograms your cells to become more “feminine.”
When this happens to women, it throws off their natural cycles, makes them gain weight, and pushes them emotionally into a very anxious and frustrated state.
For men, this “invader” makes them soft, fat, depressed, and unable to perform.
When I first started testing for this back in the 1990s, other physicians thought I was of...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - August 10, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Dr. Al Sears Tags: Anti-Aging Men's Health Nutrition Women's Health Air BPA breathing lungs toxins Source Type: news
ICYMI: The Stigma Against Egg Donors And How Parents Misjudge Their Kids
ICYMI Health features what we're reading this week. This week, we took in stories of pregnancy, miscarriage, adoption and motherhood. Inspired by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's announcement that they had miscarried multiple time before becoming pregnant, our colleague Anna Almendrala penned a beautiful essay about her own pregnancy loss. Across the Internet, Amy Klein, who writes a fertility blog for The New York Times, described being pregnant after years of trying, and her frustration with the women who looked down on her for making the decision to use donor eggs rather than adopt. And finally, a w...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 8, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New brain diet 'slows mental decline'
ConclusionThis observational study aimed to investigate the relationship between the MIND diet and its protective properties for mental decline in an older population. The study has several strengths, including the large sample size, long observational period of up to nine years, regular annual assessment of cognitive functions, and comprehensive assessment of diet. However, one of the main limitations is that this type of study cannot show cause and effect – it can only show an association between the diet and slower mental decline. There may be other unmeasured factors that account for the results, such as genetics, ...
Source: NHS News Feed - August 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet Neurology Source Type: news
How eating kale could lead to bloated bellies, thyroid problems and KIDNEY STONES
EXCLUSIVE: Eating raw kale does to your insides what a cactus does to your skin when you rub up against it, says wellness guru Lauren Imparato, who runs a studio in New York. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 31, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Who can afford organic kale on minimum wage?
It’s no secret that how much money you make can affect how healthy you are. At a Zócalo event co-sponsored by the California Wellness Foundation, the audience in a packed auditorium at MOCA Grand Avenue learned that the difference in life expectancy between people living in Los Angeles’ richest and poorest neighborhoods is a jaw-dropping 10 to 12 years.
“We associate this type of disparity with third-world countries,” said Roshan Bastani, director of UCLA’s Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and a professor of health services in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. “We don’t realize the same th...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - July 30, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Kale: The toxic truth! How our obsession with the leafy greens could lead to bloated bellies, thyroid problems and even KIDNEY STONES
EXCLUSIVE: Eating raw kale does to your insides what a cactus does to your skin when you rub up against it, says wellness guru Lauren Imparato, who runs a studio in New York. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
