Health & Nutrition Blogs
Weight Loss Blog: Food Industry Must Create Healthier FoodsHealthier foods and healthy bottom line can both be had, former food executive says
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Weight Loss Blog: What Makes Americans Fat?, Part 4Do you believe all those slender people in the beer commercials?
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Weight Loss Blog: What Makes America Fat?, Part 3Are you sure you want fries with that?
The calorie intake from French fries is 2.5 times more than the calorie intake from potato chips, and five times more than doughnuts. Healthy alternatives are brown rice, or a naked baked potato. As mentioned already, pizza is not an alternative!
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Best Foods for Protecting Skin from the Sun This 4th Of JulyThe fireworks shouldn’t happen on your skin
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Weight Loss Blog: What Makes America Fat?, Part 25 Foods and drinks that add weight … and nothing else
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Health Blog: Omega-3s to the Rescue?Study finds EPA/DHA appear to combat the bad effects of obesity Omega-3s kick butt.
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Weight Loss Blog: What Makes America Fat?, Part 15 foods and drinks that add weight … and nothing else
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Health Blog: What Every Father Should KnowFor Father’s Day, we ask experts and family members what fathers need to know about health
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GMO Blog: Do We Need Genetically Modified Crops?Are GMO's a blessing or a curse?
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Health Blog: Cell Phones Linked to Brain Cancer?Tips to reduce your exposure and risk
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Food Blog: Food Labels and Your Freedom of ChoiceGrassfed beef or BS … how do you know?
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Health Blog: How Do We Get a Handle on Heart Disease?Conventional medicine offers no cures, says Dr. Decker Weiss
Heart disease is the result of inflammation, and if you have experienced any of the hallmarks of inflammation – indigestion, bloating, irritable bowel, type 2 diabetes, Crohn’s disease, skin rashes, painful joints or chronic pain anywhere – you have been warned: If you don’t get it under control, heart disease is a real possibility.
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Food Blog: Balancing Omega-3s, 6s Could Save Your LifeHealthy eating guide can help you find the balance
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Krill Blog: Antarctic Penguin Study Arouses Krill Sustainability FearsBut scientist remains confident in careful krill-fishery management
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Health Blog: Supplements vs PharmaceuticalsWhy you don’t know about supplements that can make you better
There's a reason for that.
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A former food executive with Coca-Cola, General Mills and Cadbury-Schweppes, and the author of Stuffed: An Insider's Look at Who's (Really) Making America Fat, says that the nation’s food companies need to do more to fight the obesity epidemic, and that advocates for better foods need to embrace something other than perfection if we’re to come up with any practical solutions to obesity.
We refused to believe this statistic: Beer adds a whopping 43,050 calories per year. That number – 22 days of recommended food calories for a woman, and 17 days for a man – is simply beyond comprehension. And that’s the average for each American 15 and older. We had such a hard time believing these alcohol consumption statistics from our government’s National Institutes for Health that we cross checked them against the beer-consumption statistics from the beer Brewers Association.
How often do you get fries with that? The average American orders 177 (small) servings each year. That is fries every other day. We surely hope that the fries aren’t alternated with pizza on the odd days. French Fries add 40,817 calories per year!
Most of us think of protection from the sun’s damaging effects on skin as coming from the outside, i.e. sunscreen. The truth is that the right nutrients are just as important because they can protect the skin from those cancer-causing UVA and UVB rays, from the inside. When you are outside this 4th of July holiday, remember to protect your skin from the inside, too. Here are some of the foods and nutrients that will do just that.
What fat-making food do Americans eat that is twice as bad as donuts? 
Some 40 years ago, a Danish researcher named Dr. Jorn Dyerberg wondered why the Inuit of Greenland, whose diet was largely animal fat, had almost no heart disease. He found that the Inuit had a much higher concentration of the omega-3 fatty acids EPA/DHA in their blood than the rest of us.
Happy Father’s Day everyone. For this special day, WellWise surveyed experts – and others who just care a lot about fathers – what they would want fathers to know about health.
Genetically modified crops (GMOs) are rapidly taking over our farmlands. Most of the soybeans, corn and sugar beets grown in the US are now from genetically modified seeds. Cotton and alfalfa are next. So what, you say? Why should you care? Here’s why –
We love our cell phones but we also love our brains, and though an agency of the World Health Organization recently rocked the media world with their announcement of a possible link between cell phone use and brain cancer, but they also said the link was pretty weak. In fact, the same agency has previously named alcoholic drinks and night shift work as probable carcinogens.
There are a lot of problems with our food system, from safety to deception. Americans tend to trust government to oversee what we eat, and tell us the truth about it. That is a mistake.
One of the most important things you will ever learn about what to eat and what not to eat is this: If you get the balance between omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in your diet under control, you can expect to enjoy good health. If you don’t, expect to get asthma, coronary heart disease, many forms of cancer, autoimmunity or neurodegenerative diseases, and you are more likely to become obese, depressed, hyperactive or worse.
A recent Antarctic study focused on a decline in population of Adélie and chinstrap penguins has resurrected some controversy over the sustainability of the krill fishery and of krill oil as a dietary supplement. But what do we really know, and how endangered are the krill?
Unless you’re living without TV, you’ve undoubtedly heard of pharmaceutical drugs to reduce “bad” cholesterol, and drugs for joint pain. But have you heard about dietary supplements that have a positive effect on these health conditions?
