nutrition

Is Breakfast the Most Important Meal of the Day? Nope

Breakfast isn’t the most important meal of the day – it is simply a meal. It won’t “jumpstart” your metabolism, and if you eat too much, or the wrong thing, you still have to burn those calories. I like a healthy smoothie for breakfast, or some reindeer sausage. If you have breakfast, don’t eat cereal with high fructose corn syrup, don’t drink coffee with free sugar

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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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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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The Latest Word on Coffee

Coffee drinking may be a benefit to health. The recent study from the National Cancer Institute reports that coffee drinking is associated with a slightly lower risk of death from certain diseases than non-coffee drinkers. Coffee may be good for us– who knew

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Forks Over Knives

When a movie is considered to be a documentary, and held as the reason for many to adopt a Vegan lifestyle, it is worth reviewing. This is not a documentary, a documentary means the movie would be non-fiction. The movie is filled with feel good stories, misdirection, and information that is just not factual. Still this movie has an effect – and if it were not for the facts, after watching this movie I would give up lamb for beets.

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Vegan Activism

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine seems to play a bit loose with the facts about nutrition. This organization is less about research and evidenced based medicine, and far more about an agenda or advocacy.

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Red Meat and Early Mortality

Does red meat increase your mortality? According to the recent report it does- but when you analyze that report, you find that correlation does not equal causation, and here are just a few major flaws with that study.

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