Pigs and GMO
The headlines: pigs that ate genetically modified foods had more stomach issues that those pigs who were fed non genetically modified foods. Sadly, the headlines were incorrect
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GMO Part 3: Allergies
The rise of allergies – is GMO responsible? What are allergies, and the immune response? What is done to insure that allergenic proteins are not in our food supply?
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Is Organic Food More Nutritious- Guest Post
When organic farming began it was a movement about eating healthier and being conscious about our environment. The new laws have watered down the meaning of organic for many of us, but the question remains- should we purchase organic foods?
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What is Really in Juice Concentrate
What do you think of when you see that a company has put “juice concentrate” into your drink. You would be surprised. What they do is simply extract the sugar, and this means what you are drinking is a product from some oranges, or grapes, or whatever juice they say.
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The Bad Fat isn’t Bad and the Good Fat isn’t Good
President Eisenhower could not have been more mad. He had followed his cardiologists recommendations to the letter but his cholesterol was higher than before. Turns out they were wrong about saturated fat. Here is the Presidential story about saturated fat – and what we know now.
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Mummies & Eskimos with Heart Disease: it isn’t Modern Diets that are the Problem: The People of St. Paul
Many diets are based on the false premise that the cave-men or early man, had great diets without chronic disease. Turns out they had plenty of heart and vascular disease, as a recent study showed. Reminded me of going to St Paul, in Alaska- a place where they still live like they did hundreds of years ago- but just a bit better.
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The Fast Diet: Eat 5 Fast 2
The Fast Diet is taking the world by storm. From Britain, this simple diet promises what everyone wants to hear: “Eat what you want, then eat light for two days and watch the pounds drop.” Is it real? Can you expect to lose weight this way?
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Bacon Cures Cancer
They want you to think that vegetables turn off cancer genes – that if you get cancer you are not vegan enough. Here is the story of a lifelong vegetarian/vegan who will tell you that vegetables didn’t turned off the most deadly cancer progression of all. Someone who is the longest survivor of pancreatic cancer- and the one thing that changed — bacon
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Is Fatty Liver from Fat or Carbs
Fatty liver disease is becoming endemic. The cause is excess saturated fat in the diet combined with excess calories.
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