Saturday, April 4th, 2009
Why is it that we always want to find a magic food, or group of foods to make us healthy? In this case, the Acai berry (ah Sigh EE) is the latest craze to cure everything with magic anti-oxidant powers. So much so that Americans spent over $108 million last year for this product.
I promise to address the myth of oxidants in a post, but for the purpose of discussion — let’s pretend that we want a lot of anti-oxidants in our diet. If we do, and if more is better, does this mean we should spend sixty bucks a bottle for the magic of the Acai berry?
Tags: acai, healthy eating, Myths
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
The 1964 Surgeon General Report, which declared that the inhalation of cigarettes would likely cause lung cancer and heart disease, had a profound impact in the United States. This report started America thinking that the practice of inhaling cigarette smoke was unhealthy and began a long series of studies, lawsuits, and laws, that changed the face of America from a primary smoking society—where over 60 percent of adults in the U.S. smoked—to a number that is now about 30 percent. (more…)
Tags: Myths, second-hand smoke, Smoking
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