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March 11, 2013
Green Tea Boosts Memory
The following is a guest article by health reporter Craig Weatherby, brought to you by our friends at Vital Choice. Green Tea Boosts Memory Clinical study sees green tea boosting brain areas associated with working memory; mouse study affirms the effect. By Craig Weatherby A Swiss scientific team gives us the first look inside [...]
March 4, 2013
Mediterranean Diet…The Best Diet Ever? Not So Fast!
Last week, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study which, according to the fawning mainstream press, proved “conclusively” that the best diet in the world was the Mediterranean diet, that it protected everyone from heart disease and stroke, and that everyone in the world should be on it. Except the study showed no [...]
February 18, 2013
150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: Krill Oil
Krill Oil is even better than fish oil for lowering blood pressure, boosting mood and memory, and even reducing symptoms of PMS.
February 11, 2013
150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: Kale
Kale has the highest ORAC rating of any vegetable on Earth!
More Statin Drug Deception!
The following is a guest article by Justin Smith, the man who made the incredible documentary Statin Nation, a DVD I strongly suggest you watch. It’s the perfect companion piece to my new book, The Great Cholesterol Myth. A national newspaper here in the UK (the Daily Mail) recently reported “How a 40p statin [...]
February 4, 2013
Statin Drugs May Raise Type 2 Diabetes Risk
Canadian Press 01-25-13 TORONTO – Health Canada has updated the labeling for commonly prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins to warn users they may be at a small increased risk of developing diabetes. The department announced the change Thursday, 11 months after the Food and Drug Administration took similar action in the United States. Toronto-based drug [...]
Stuff I Like: The Breville Automatic Tea Maker
Today I’m going to introduce a new column, which will appear in the blog from time to time—no particular schedule—and it’s exactly what the title says it is: Stuff I Like From time to time I find a book, a kitchen device, a food product, a service …. that I really think is great. So [...]
December 17, 2012
Beyonce & PepsiCo: The $50 Million Deal With The Devil
This is a guest article by my friend, Kristin Wartman. Kristin is one of the most thoughtful– and thought-provoking– writers I know on the subject of food, nutrition and health. I think you’ll love this article. Check out Kristin’s blog on the Huffington Post. There was good news this week with several cities reporting declining [...]
December 10, 2012
150 Healthiest Foods: Green Beans
The folate (folic acid) in green beans lowers the inflammatory compound called homocysteine which is usually high in people with heart disease and Alzheimer’s.
Chemicals in Food that Make You Fat
For decades we’ve been told that the “formula” for weight loss is incredibly simple: eat less and exercise more. Unfortunately, that’s very far from the whole truth. We’re now learning that there are powerful influences on weight that go beyond calories and exercise. We’re at the infancy of our knowledge about obesity, and we’re not [...]
