Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury - washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012601831.html

Not sure if this is news, but it was news to me. I'm excited to see the new Corn Refiners Association's commercials disavowing this discovery. -Andrew Miller, SOAN 249

MONDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient, according to... Leerlo!!!!

55% of samples!? z0MG!! I now have even more reasons not to eat this stuff. We have food-supply problems (Read "The Omnivore's Dilemma").

Dr. Weinstock goes even further. “Children should be allowed to go barefoot in the dirt, play in the dirt, and not have to wash their hands when they come in to eat,” he said. He and Dr. Elliott pointed out that children who grow up on farms and are frequently exposed to worms and other organisms from farm animals are much less likely to develop allergies and autoimmune diseases. .... Also helpful, he said, is to “let kids have two dogs and a cat,” which will expose them to intestinal worms that can promote a healthy immune system.

researchers are concluding that organisms like the millions of bacteria, viruses and especially worms that enter the body along with “dirt” spur the development of a healthy immune system.

Ask mothers why babies are constantly picking things up from the floor or ground and putting them in their mouths, and chances are they’ll say that it’s instinctive — that that’s how babies explore the world. But why the mouth, when sight, hearing, touch and even scent are far better at identifying things?

Teeth are able to heal themselves. That's how traditional cultures such as the Inuit can wear their teeth down to the pulp due to chewing leather and sand-covered dried fish, yet still have an exceptionally low rate of tooth decay.

Nutrition has a profound effect on tooth structure, and well-formed teeth are inherently resistant to decay. But is there anything you can do if your teeth are already formed?

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Perfect Scrambled Eggs Breakfast

Gordon Ramsay: a four-minute demonstration of how to make rich, fluffy scrambled eggs on a non-rushed morning.

What if someone told you that the way you eat could whittle your waistline? Sure, you'd think. Give up carbs and rely on rabbit food. Not true! I'm happy to tell you that there are other, yummier ways to go. Certain foods and styles of eating can indeed help flatten your belly (and everywhere else, for that matter). Try these tips and you'll uncover an amazing middle in no time. Gimme a C: I love pink grapefruit and that's a good thing, since research has found that foods that are naturally rich in vitamin C—think citrus fruit, cantaloupe and red peppers—can help reduce fat absorption. In fact, skip it and you may see your middle expand, since diets low in vitamin C have been linked to bigger waistlines. Meet your daily goal of 75 milligrams by snacking on an orange or a cup of strawberries. See how these small changes can add up to big results. Tea up: Women with the highest consumption of catechins, the plant-based antioxidants in tea that may boost fat burn, put on fewer pounds ov

Foodsyahoo yahooFoods FlatBelly yahoo.com http://health.yahoo.com/experts/healthieryou/9219/best-foods-for-a-flat-belly/

Ways to make you eat less sugar: I found one.

If you want to make the right decisions in confusing times—Time to refinance? Explore a different career? Root for the singing spinster or the 12-year-old?—you need to pay special attention to what you eat. That’s right: Your grocery list can help with your to-do list. That’s because the right foods are a kind of clean-burning fuel for your body’s biggest energy hog: Your brain. A study in the Journal of Physiology makes the point that, though your brain represents only 2 percent of your body weight, it makes 20 percent of the energy demands on your resting metabolism. On our new Eat This, Not That! Web site, we rounded up the best foods to munch on when you need a mental boost—and found studies that show, in fact, that you can be up to 200 percent more productive if you make the right eating choices. Stock up on these items to halt mental decline, jog your memory, sharpen your senses, improve your performance, activate your feel-good hormones, and protect your quick-witted sharpness

It's from Men's Health magazine, so I question its scientific authority (harping on the Thanksgiving tryptophan thing still? pork has more than turkey, thank you), but in general this seems like solid advice.

Luckily, we have some menus that will keep you slim, satisfied and genuinely surprised that healthy food can taste that good.

Broccoli Reduces diabetic damage Lowers risk of prostate, bladder, colon, pancreatic, gastric and breast cancer Protects the brain in event of in

Lowers risk of colorectal and kidney cancer, leukemia

Healthy Food Combinations

yes flat belly is important, not only for beauty but also for health sake. decided not to take junk food.

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An interesting, attractive, and clear information graphic that just happens to feature stats that I think most people would like to know.

Most people don't really know how many calories their every day food contains. Or how hard they actually have to work to get rid of that extra energy. So make 2009 a year when you make conscious decisions and stop the weight to sneak up on you.

Lists detailed info on pesticides that are on foods.

Select food and find out what's in it!

http://www.whatsonmyfood.org/images/womf_logo_label2.jpg

A nice article that discuses food regarding exercise

En inglés. Lo de siempre, que nunca es bastante recordado. Mens sana in corpore sano; buena salud igual a ejercicio y dieta equilibrada. Y propuestas.

Food Nutrition Comparisons | twofoods

two foods

Nutritional comparison of two food types. Strangely neat. EFL comparisons

Michael Pollan shares 20 of his favorite food rules sent in by Times readers.

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Food Rules: Your Dietary Dos and Don'ts

Yet another reason to avoid the middle of the grocery store. (via @seldo)

Eating a diet high in processed food increases the risk of depression, research suggests. What is more, people who ate plenty of vegetables, fruit and fish actually had a lower risk of depression, the University College London team found.

food inc.

You want to live a long, full life -- to be young and lean forever. But you could be doing yourself more harm than good. Getty Images by JJ Virgin "Someday," you say, "I'm going to get my health back on track, after this next…

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Well it does, just not as much as expected in the study. Key thing: Use exercise to promote your health, not for the sole aim of weight loss. Slashdot: http://tr.im/EExN

Pretty good article on diet's role in weight loss despite exercise

For some time, researchers have been finding that people who exercise don’t necessarily lose weight. A study published online in September in The British Journal of Sports Medicine was the latest to report apparently disappointing slimming results.

For some time, researchers have been finding that people who exercise dont necessarily lose weight. A study published online in September in The British Journal of Sports Medicine was the latest to report apparently disappointing slimming results. In the study, 58 obese people completed 12 weeks of supervised aerobic training without changing their diets. The group lost an average of a little more than seven pounds, and many lost barely half that.

Phys Ed: Why Doesn’t Exercise Lead to Weight Loss?

RT @bbcnews An extract found in the curry spice tumeric can kill off cancer cells, lab scientists have shown. http://bit.ly/3QyGDP [from http://twitter.com/miquimel/statuses/5216067233]

Health and nutrition

Combat fat! Your allies in battling bulge? Foods that do the work for you. These edibles have proven lipid-melting powers that help you slim. That’s a win.

Diet with no meat before dinner.

I've dropped about 10 pounds so far, and a little more falls off every day. The fix hasn't been running, lifting, or anything trendy—I'm just eating less meat, and enjoying what I eat more.

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전문가들이 말하는 먹지 말아야할 음식들입니다. 캔 토마토, 양식 연어, 사료로키운 쇠고기, 전자렌지 팝콘, 호르몬을 먹여만든 우유 등 키우는 과정이나 조리과정에서 여러가지 변형을 야기하는 것들이 들어간 음식들입니다. 역시 유기농제품이 제일 좋을 것 같습니다.

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How healthy (or not) certain foods are—for us, for the environment—is a hotly debated topic among experts and consumers alike, and there are no easy answers. But when Prevention talked to the people at the forefront of food safety and asked them…

health soda

There remain some concerns over aspartame, the low-calorie chemical used to give diet sodas their flavor.

Eggs (no yolks!), almonds, avocados, apples, oatmeal, peanut butter.

eggs (never eat the yolks), almonds, avocados, apples, oatmeal, peanut butter (no added sugar) ... YES INDEED AND FATTIES SHOULD NOTE THAT THERE ARE NO PRINGLES ON THIS LIST

Binge-proof your diet: 6 Foods that keep you full and satisfied

Whole foods are the key to good health (and not very much sugar)

The most important consideration in constructing a healthy diet: Eat whole food with minimal processing. These 12 foods do the trick.

Nuts and berries.

Skip the 11 o'clock news, respect your mouth and 18 other stay-healthy mustsYou've heard it before: Eat a healthy diet, exercise and don't smoke, and you'll add years to your life. In fact, one study found that more than half of all deaths from chronic di

Weight loss advice and links to various fitness websites.

# oint to never eat carbs without some fat or protein. # The Amount of Meals Per Day Doesn’t Matter. I think people should stick to what feels natural as far as how often they eat. Some people do better with 6 small meals and some do better with 2-3 meals. It really is the total calories that matter as far as weight loss goes. The idea that you metabol

By Lynn Harris Revving Your Engine Metabolism is a process that breaks down carbohydrates, fats and proteins in the food you eat to make the energy your body needs to build and maintain itself. Proper nutrition keeps your body functioning well, but…

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Best and Worst Restaurants

Que comer y que no en las diferentes cadenas de restaurants.

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zen 17 Arse-kicking Strategies to Stick to Your Diet and Get Fit: Look nice and trim with sure-fire healthy .. http://tinyurl.com/com98f [from http://twitter.com/maxOz/statuses/1353556564]

’m not a big fan of “dieting” — a word that conjures up images of hunger and chewing on celery or doing some kind of fad diet — but I do believe in trying to eat a healthier diet. Don’t diet, but do stick to a healthy diet, in other words. But that’s easier said than done, as we all know. The healthy diet goes out the window around the holidays, for example, or when there’s a family party or a function at work full of unhealthy food, or when we go out to eat with friends, or when we go to a ballgame or amusement park or the beach, or when … well, you get the idea. There are lots of ways to get off a diet.

Make the most important meal of the day a good one.

27 Ideas for a Healthier Breakfast: The Breakfast Routine | Get Motivated | Reader's Digest http://ow.ly/52JS [from http://twitter.com/10minuteexpert/statuses/1695932984]

Official information and services from the U.S. government.

Access government resources on health care, insurance, diet, fitness, public health, and more.

this site will help providing care, benefits, long-distance caregiving, legal matters, support for caregivers in an online atmosphere that will give you information about how the healthcare debate rages on .

"One big myth is that fruit juice is a healthy part of our diet. Wrong. Drinking a glass of fruit juice a day — which is the equivalent of one soft drink of 110 to 180 calories — has been linked in the U.S., Australia and Spain to increased calorie intake and higher risks of diabetes and heart disease. Eating a piece of fruit provides vitamins, fiber and, best of all, tends to reduce intake of other food. Most fruit juices are just sugary beverages, providing extra calories — all from refined carbohydrates — without sating appetite. ... The added calories can contribute to weight gain and increased risk of both diabetes and heart disease."

Fruit juices aren’t nearly as healthy for you as you think..

From the Room for Debate Blog, debonking some food myths!

Everything pointed to a simpler style of eating. I started following a diet that was nearly "vegan until six." Until dinner, I ate almost no animal products and no simple carbs (no white-flour products, junk food, or sugar-heavy snacks). At dinner, I ate as I always had, sometimes a sizable meal including animal products, bread, dessert, wine -- you name it -- or sometimes a salad and a bowl of soup. I also took several long walks each week (my bad knees couldn't handle more).

The anti-girth, pro-Earth eating plan for busy, real people.

Bittman

Mark Bittman How to cook everything vegetarian NYT food writer the minimalist against meat

This is great speech about obesity

Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.

One of the most striking features of the disease is the disproportion between its severity and the simplicity of the cure. Today we know that scurvy is due solely to a deficiency in vitamin C, a compound essential to metabolism that the human body must obtain from food. Scurvy is rapidly and completely cured by restoring vitamin C into the diet.

scurvy bad, science hard : "We tend to think that knowledge, once acquired, is something permanent. Instead, even holding on to it requires constant, careful effort."

A summary of some exercise and diet rule that seem to make a lot of sense.

Higher amounts of sugar, fat and salt, found in foods, makes you want to eat more. KFC, Burger King, and McDonalds show great examples of these high fat foods. The action of eating these foods is now known as “conditioned hypereating” its conditioned because of the automatic response to eating these foods and hyper because people consume the food excessively. There are a few ways to stop this process. Plan your meals, use portion sizes, cut out the foods you cant control yourself over, talk yourself out of your urges, and rehearse making the right choice before entering the restaurant.

story. Made of sugar-rich russet potatoes, they have a slightly bitter background note and brown irregularly, which gives them a complex flavour. High levels of fat generate easy mouth-melt, and surface variations add a level of interest beyond that found in mass-prod

"Our favourite foods are making us fat, yet we can't resist, because eating them is changing our minds as well as bodies"

play with the interactive version | find out more about this image | post a comment This image is a balloon race. The higher a bubble, the greater the

scientific evidence for popular health supplements [chart]

A graphical representation of the scientific evidence for or against particular health supplements. Vitamin C seems to be quite far down the list :).

RT @farmgeek The average American eats 60 pounds of High Fructose Corn Syrup every year http://bit.ly/bfiFWi >>just wow

Toldja so!

hello i visit your blog, u visit mine

A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.

Among rats fed calorically identical quantities of table sugar and HFCS, those fed corn syrup gain as much as 48% more weight. Fascinating.

The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP), part of the USDA, combines scientific research and the nutritional needs of the American public. Special interest: Dietary Guidelines for Americans | The Food Guide Pyramid | Interactive Healthy Eating Index | Nutrition Insights.

Resources aimed at developing and promoting dietary guidance with links to MyPyramid, dietary guides, nutrition insights and other resources; many aimed at consumers.

The USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) works to improve the health and well-being of Americans by developing and promoting dietary guidance that links scientific research to the nutrition needs of consumers. CNPP is an agency of USDA's Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services.

has data on food costs, customizable food pyramids, ect

lots of bunk in science's 1st draft

"The data clearly show that much current advice about dietary pyramids, food supplements, megavitamins, and weight loss regimens is frequently unproven, erroneous, or even harmful and is often based on pseudoscience or derivative incorrect professorial opinion."

Quinoa

chapter 8

Entre ellas el chocolate, el vino y el yogur, así que vamos bien.

I would love to try to get us eating this whole list once a week in our meals!

A few weeks ago I was using my flat iron and when I looked in the mirror to admire my ’do, I discovered my first gray hair (gasp!). It was the first time I was visibly confronted with the reality that, surprise, I will age, and I’m not 18 anymore no matter how good I feel.

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law of thermodynamics

Recently I read a very impressive book by Gary Taubes, previously a reporter for the journal Science. The work in question is, "Good Calories, Bad Calories."' In the book, Taubes collects research to challenge the common knowledge of nutrition: that fat is bad for you, that we should eat polyunsaturated vegetable oils, that we should exercise for sixty minutes a day, etc.

nice theory on how puritanicalism informs, in this case, our common dietary 'wisdom'

Drinks & their sugar equivalent in food http://bit.ly/bU7ym4 (sticking to water from now on) #MustRead

zomg, horrifying

World of Mysteries takes pictures of the worst beverages in America with their caloric equals. SoBe Green Tea contains the same amount of sugar as four pieces of Sara Lee cherry pie.

This makes me scared to drink anything but good old council pop - http://bit.ly/bWmR4d #sugaroverload (Via @emsydo)

Whether the new thinking will be reflected in this year's revision of the federal dietary guidelines remains unclear

"Obesogens"

talks about obesogens

by: Stephen Perrine and Heather Hurlock On May 11, the White House announced it was targeting a new threat to America’s health and security. It wasn’t some rogue nation or terrorist organization, or a newfound disease or environmental threat. It…

"Obesogens"

But your endocrine system is a finely tuned instrument that can easily be thrown off-kilter. "Obesogens are thought to act by hijacking the regulatory systems that control body weight,"

eats water for both health and aesthetic concerns. Try The Brita Aqualux ($28, brita.com), Pur Horizontal fau

Truth About Your Food

6.11.10 (Article based on the "Eat This, Not Article" book)

In case you missed the article that Mike B posted last week, check out The Truth About Your Food. Did you Taco Bell that of the 64 ingredients in their Mexican Pizza, one of them is silicon dioxide (aka sand), which is added to the ground beef? While you may think you can at make good food choices at fast food restaurants, even if you only eat the meat, there's likely to be 20+ ingredients added!

By David Zinczenko Jun 11, 2010

RT @CarePractice: Are you really going to eat that? Here's what lurks in your favorite foods: http://bit.ly/cp496V

What to eat--what not to eat--and why.