Health & Nutrition Blogs
Food Blog: Drinking to Your HealthLooking for a healthy beverage? Have a tea party!Athletes and consumers who want to live a healthy lifestyle are increasingly reaching out for enhanced waters and sports drinks. A growing body of scientific evidence, however, indicates that old-fashioned beverages — tea and coffee — are the elixirs for nutrition, health and workout recovery. |
Food Blog: Getting the Best from SaladDon’t let your salads go naked – dress them!With the holiday season and the associated over-eating and food indiscretions behind us, many of us are reaching out to salads as part of our New Year’s resolutions. |
Food Blog: Know What You Eat – GarlicHow to get garlic’s best health effectsConsumption of large amounts of raw garlic can help your heart, but did you know that garlic is best – taste-wise and health-wise – when crushed before use?
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Food Blog: Know What You Eat – EggnogIs Your Eggnog Safe?It is hard to imagine the holidays without eggnog, which offers much to like: rich, spicy, and alcoholic. The rich wintertime drink is made by mixing milk and/or cream with sugar and beaten (raw) eggs, flavoring with ground cinnamon and nutmeg, and not heating the mixture. Often, advocaat, bourbon, brandy, rum, whiskey and/or other liqueurs are added to enhance the experience and to bring out the flavors. But given the dubious safety of shell eggs today, many people are rightfully cautious about the safety of eggnog. |
Food Blog: Sugar is sugar ... or is it?HFCS or sugar – does it matter?Chemically speaking, high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is not in the same class as sucrose. |
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Food Blog: Salt Goes by Many Names It doesn’t matter whether the salt added is iodized, kosher or sea salt. Salt is salt is salt, and 40 percent of it is sodium. |
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Food Blog: Americans Love Our Salt … Too Much Federal officials are embarking upon making U.S. Dietary Guidelines even stricter with regards to salt in face of the fact that an overwhelming 90 percent of adults exceed the salt consumption currently recommended by the guidelines. The villain is sodium, which some studies show, can contribute to hypertension (high blood pressure), a major risk for most adults for it can lead to heart disease, kidney disease, stroke and other health problems. |
Health Blog: Is Your Sunscreen Protecting or Harming You?There are safety concerns about nanotechnology in your sunscreenI’m going to diverge from my usual topic of food to talk about something you may want to consider this summer is here and you’re likely spending more time in the sun. |
Health Blog: When is it essential to buy organics?Here’s how to choose the least polluted fruits and vegetables
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Food Blog: A Pasta Primer for Those with DiabetesHow pasta is made affects its digestibilitySeveral structural changes happen in starch and protein during pasta making and these changes affect both, nutritional and eating quality. Pasta making – whether by hand or by machine – requires three basic steps: mixing and hydrating the semolina, forming the shape by extrusion or sheeting, and drying at ambient temperature or in industrial dryers. |
Food Blog: Blood-sugar Challenged? Know thy pastaWhy it matters to know how your pasta was madeIf you are one of those people who must manage your blood sugar or insulin levels – someone with diabetes, for instance – you need to know your pasta. Why? Because how a particular pasta is manufactured will determine how it will affect your blood sugar. |
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Food Blog: Does Skim Milk Actually Deliver More Fats? For the reasons I gave in my previous blog, it is logical to expect more fat absorption from homogenized milk than from its non-homogenized counterpart. The health benefits of milk fat have a lot to do with how it is processed and consumed. Pig farmers have, for decades, fed pigs skimmed milk for rapid weight gain because pigs that are fed whole milk don’t get fat, they stay lean. |
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Food Blog: Is Homogenized Milk Better or Worse for You?
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Health Blog: Why we need omega-3s … and krill oil Why should we take omega-3 supplements, especially if we are consuming a balanced and nutritious diet? One major reason is because the nutritional value of our foods today has changed dramatically, largely as a result of how they are produced and distributed. Far from the ideal 1:1 ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fats, average diets today contain 6-20 times as much omega-6s as omega-3s. This poses serious health risks. In fact, omega-3 deficiency is so rampant that mainstream health media now considers the lack of omega-3 fats in diet as among society’s most pressing health issues. |
While the jury may be out on whether organic food is higher in nutrients than traditionally grown foods, one thing is certain: Organically produced foods are free of pesticides and growth hormones – residues of both have yet to be proven safe and without any negative effects on human physiology.
Milk is touted the world over as a healthy beverage for children and adults. Some claim that dairy calcium promotes weight loss, while others believe milk fat and whey protein may cause weight gain.
