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The Formula For Health and Sickness
Written By: Dr. Wegmann Poor health is not a single, cataclysmic event. We do not become unhealthy, overweight or sick overnight. Poor health is the inevitable result of an accumulation of poor thinking and poor choices. To put it more simply, poor health is nothing more than a few errors in judgment repeated every week. (i.e. fast food, ice cream, doughnuts, etc.) Now why would someone make an error in judgment and then be so foolish as to repeat it every week? The answer is because he or she does not think that it matters.
Do You Drink Milk? What You Should Know Before Your Next Glass (Video)
The 10 Dirtiest Foods You're Eating
At the supermarket: Look for birds labeled “free range.” Close quarters in the henhouse give bad bugs the chance to spread, as do high-volume processing operations. Free-range chickens, which are given more room to roost and are usually slaughtered in smaller numbers, present a potentially safer option. For example, Ranger chickens, a free-range brand sold in the Pacific Northwest, came up negative for Salmonella and Campylobacter in Consumers Union’s tests.
Soda Tax Weighed as Way to Finance Health Care Commercial (Video)
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held the first ever conference on obesity titled “The Weight Of The Nation.” Obesity is a serious public health crisis, and according to new numbers released by the Journal of Health Affairs, spending on obesity-related health costs has doubled over the last decade, reaching a staggering $147 billion a year. The beverage-tax proposal in addition to soda would apply to drinks that many Americans don’t consider unhealthy — such as PepsiCo’s Gatorade and Kraft’s Capri Sun — based on their calorie content.
In Defense of Food–An Eater’s Manifesto (Book Review)
In Defense of Food” gives you a guided tour of 20th century food science, a history of “nutritionism” in America and a snapshot of the marriage of government and the food industry. And then it steps up to the reason most readers will buy it. and if you care for your health and the health of your loved ones this is a read for you. IN DEFENSE OF FOOD is divided into three parts: “The Age of Nutritionism” (which defines and explains what scientists have done with your food while you were dozing for a few decades on that “sugar high”);
Americans Are Less Healthy Than They Were in 1988
Anyone who hasn’t heard the healthy lifestyle message has to be living under a rock. But whether it’s the vegetable-hating inner child or the primal urge to conserve physical energy asserting itself, millions of middle-age Americans are having none of it.
Cheat Sheet–12 Food Additives to Avoid
By Jean Weiss for MSN Health & Fitness Whoever coined the term food additives had it all wrong. Including something new in a food doesn’t always add up to more, at least when it comes to your health. Studies that test the safety of additives are based on animal trials. It is difficult to deduce whether the results of an animal study equate to human health, though many of these studies show that some additives could be cancer-causing.
3 Fish to Avoid
Fish can be a very healthy choice. However with what has been done to the environment and water we now have to be more knowledgeable because of the contaminants. Here is a precautionary list of the top 3 fish to avoid.
