Do Vitamins Reduce Cancer Risk
While the recent study about older physicians taking multivitamins showed a small reduction in cancer, the effect was modest. Here is a review of the major studies about vitamins and what they have shown.
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Parents Wildly Underestimate Children’s Calorie Intake
At the Annual Meeting of The Obesity Society, researchers shared that parents underestimate the calories in their children’s fast food meals. The study involved 330 children. Kids consume approximately 7 trillion calories per year on sugary beverages.
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Baked Chicken Breasts – Simple
A simple baked chicken recipe that has minimal calories but tastes delicious is quick and easy. Here is step by step instructions as well as a video to prove it.
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BPA and Obesity
A recent report linked BPA to obesity in children. BPA is a chemical used to make plastics and resins, and is found in most prepared foods. BPA also is known to have weak estrogen-like activity, and is stored in fatty tissues- leading to the ban of BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups. BPA has also been linked to several cancers. We will show you how to avoid BPA
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Acupuncture: It Still Doesn’t Work
In spite of a recent study about acupuncture, it does not overcome the bias of the person performing the acupuncture, or the placebo effect. Acupuncture is attempting to find a place in chronic pain, where treatments don’t work well- but cannot find a place in acute pain- such as that caused by an acute injury.
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Organic Food: Better or Worse? A Foodies View
Latest update: organic fruit isn’t any better — yawn. Sorry, we foodies knew this years ago- but there is something more important than organic, fresh.
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Calorie Restriction to Combat Aging
Some people eat less in an attempt to live longer- based on studies done with rats, mice, fruitflies- well, turns out that the data doesn’t fit, and eating less doesn’t allow you to live longer.
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Six Obama Care Myths
No matter who you vote for in November, the myths going around about what the Affordable Health Care Act (Obama Care) abound. Here are the simple facts about Obama Care, and six myths you may not know.
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Bugs In the News: Brain Eating Amoeba, Hanta Virus, West Nile Virus
Bugs were in the news this month from Ebola in Africa, West Nile Virus in Texas, and the Neti Pot brain-eating bugs in Louisiana, and for the healthy campers of Yosemite there is Hanta Virus. Global warming and increasing temperatures have made conditions ripe for mosquitoes, amoebas, and virus to grow.
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