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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Childhood Obesity: Legislating Healthy Food
Schools that limit access to junk foods have fewer children that are overweight or obese. Perhaps it is time to make this a policy for all schools – we do have an epidemic of obesity among our children, and the schools are the surrogate parents for the children.
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Myth: Doctors Aren’t Taught Much Nutrition
There is a common myth that physicians are not taught much nutrition in medical school. Often this is stated by people who have never been to medical school, and where they received their information- who knows.
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Probiotics: the Lipstick Stained Glass
You would think that something called “probiotic” would be good for you. Before you take one consider this question: would you drink out of a glass that had lipstick on it? Would you eat food from a restaurant that had hair in it? Because chances are they are safer for you than any probiotic.
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Two New Drugs for Obesity
Two new drugs have been approved by the FDA for weight loss, but with very limited indications, and without knowing the long-term effect of these drugs on the heart. The drugs, Belviq and Qsymia have warnings and side effects.
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PETA vs. Gordon Ramsay
PETA is going up against Gordon Ramsay claiming fish suffer – PETA is wrong- they not only don’t know the neuro anatomy of fish. What fish feel, and how they feel about it.
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HDL – the Good Cholesterol Isn’t Good
The Good cholesterol isn’t good, but the bad cholesterol is still bad. HDL is a marker, but not a cause, for individuals who have better heart health, but raising HDL does not decrease the incidence of heart disease. The good news: under your doctors directions – you probably don’t need the niacin or the fish oil – but still eat fish
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