by Charles on March 24, 2009

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March 24, 2009

ANOTHER first lady plants a garden.

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HOW LONG HAVE WE KNOWN the Lipid Hypothesis was Bull?

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IMAGINE A WORLD where people ate fat — lots of fat.

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HEATED DEBATE over raw milk in Maryland.

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RAW MILK cowshare issues in British Columbia.

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KELLY THE KITCHEN KOP shows us what passes for nutritional advice in one hospital.

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KELLY IS ALSO setting up a resource for finding a healthy restaurant in your city.
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 NOTHING NEW, PERHAPS, but now a study looks at sleep deficiency in teens. And why YOU need seven hours of sleep every night.

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IN CASE you don’t get that seven hours, coffee won’t make up for it but at least you can now think of it as a superfood when you drink it!

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by Charles on March 18, 2009

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March 18, 2009

MICHAEL EADES  has a roundup of food trends from Expo West.

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ALSO FROM EXPO WEST, CheeseSlave reviews products in her “Best of Expo West” series. Flatbread Pizza, Healthy Potato Chips, Bare Fruit Snacks, and Tasty Freeze-Dried Natto.

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ON THE OTHER HAND, Jon Barron shares news that living near fast food restaurants is Deadly.

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ALSO DEADLY is a psoriasis drug.

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THEN there is a blood clot drug that may increase the risk of Internal Bleeding.

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WE ARE NOT DONE YET. The Wall Street Journal reports that a top pain scientist has fabricated data in painkiller studies. Hat tip to Hartke Is Online (who incidentally has a great Raw Milk News Roundup at the moment.)

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One Writer thinks there are dark days ahead for Big Pharma.

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NOT ONLY DRUG DANGERS in the headlines today; human errors in intensive care are “frequent.”

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WHILE WE’RE AT IT, here is the latest stupid medical trick.

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PRICELESS.

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COUNTING CALORIES IS NOT the last word on losing weight. A diet moderately high in protein is helpful.

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AND saturated fat has an important role to play in good health.

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COFFEE FOR HEALTH, anyone?

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by Charles on March 17, 2009

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March 17, 2009

BIG VITAMIN D NEWS ROUNDUP:

Vitamin D is a mental health aid.

Vitamin D tied to muscle power in girls.

Vitamin D may protect against common cold.

Low Vitamin D may be a bigger problem than thought.

Lack of Vitamin D tied to teen health problems.

Four times current Vitamin D doses needed for winter.

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“With a constituency limited to anyone who eats, “Food, Inc.” is a civilized horror movie for the socially conscious, the nutritionally curious and the hungry.” Watch the Trailer.

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Natural Cures Blog Carnival kicks off Today!

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French Fry Chemical may go on toxic list; in Canada. “Acrylamide is an industrial chemical that isn’t naturally found in foods, but is produced accidentally when sugars and other items in potatoes and grains are exposed to high cooking temperatures.”

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by Charles on March 16, 2009

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March 16, 2009
One of the best things terrorists could do is build more fast food restaurants, add another pharmaceutical company and encourage people to keep eating the way they are now and they’ll all be dead in a few years! So says a new movie, Foodmatters. Watch the trailer.
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Why Do People Cook? Short answer: cooking softens food. Softness also explains, in part, the rise of processed food which is, yes, usually soft. So they eat more of it because they like that soft food pleasure. And what are they eating more of? Nutrient deficient calories. So their bodies tell them they are still hungry… Call it: obesity.
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Study: Optimistic Women Live Longer; don’t laugh.
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Wither Dr. Mercola? Seems he has a heavy handed attitude when it comes to attribution which has really gotten on the nerves of one blogger. That and his product marketing practices are causing some folk to unsubscribe.

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