Health & Nutrition Blogs
Mom Blog: Honor Mothers Day – Raise Awareness about Antibiotic ResistanceMom and dads can help end the practice of overuse of antibiotics on food animals
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Women’s Health Blog: Omega-3s Boost Responses to Breast-Cancer DrugStudy finds they appear to reduce gene expression linked to tumor growth
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Food Blog: It’s Time We Got Pissed OffWe need more angry voices to save our kids … from us
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Food Blog: Take a stand, save a farmworker
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Food Blog: Junk Food for children?We are turning our kids into junk-food addictsYou may have seen the obscene video of the Indonesian toddler addicted to cigarettes. When it first came out, American parents cringed and lambasted the father for introducing his son to cigarettes when the boy was just 18 months old. Would we ever do such a thing? It’s already happening, but in America it’s not cigarettes, it’s junk food.
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Food Blog: The (Food Label) ScriptureThe good (and bad) newsThe Old Testament (of Food Labels)In the beginning, there were no food labels, only the earth and the sky. But God wanted more, so on the third day He said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. |
Food Blog: Truth (About Food) HurtsTelling the truth about food is riskyMy book about food labeling, Eating Between the Lines, could have gotten me arrested. I became painfully paranoid about this fact half way through the writing process, which is why I spent more hours with my publisher’s lawyer than the editor. |
Food Blog: Kids and NutritionFeed kids, not Palin’s politics, in 2011!Why is it that when it comes to kids’ health in America, there are some very big – or at least very loud – obstacles getting in the way? I hate to draw attention to one recent example, for fear of giving Sarah Palin any more visibility than she already gets, but here goes.
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Health Blog: Inflammation and How to Prevent ItDo not ignore low-grade inflammationLow-grade inflammation is a preventable condition that affects millions and millions of Americans, but few know they have it. Drug companies ignore it. It doesn't have a foundation that raises billions of dollars to stop the spread. Even physicians ignore it, even though low-grade inflammation is the primary contributor to the onset of cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis and even skin aging.
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Food Blog: Holiday Guilt Trip? Don’t buy a ticketGuilt is not a holiday treatDon’t you love this time of year? Who doesn’t love the festive parties, the sweet treats, sparkly cocktails and holiday lights? Women’s magazine editors, that’s who. I happen to be one of them, but before the holiday is even over, the headline guilt trip starts. Here are a couple of recent headlines. Women’s Day: “3 Major Holiday Eating Mistakes;” Glamour: “Healthy Eating, the Three Big D’s of Holiday Foods;” and I love this one from Ladies Home Journal: “Can this marriage be saved? He thinks I’m Fat.” |
Women’s Health Blog: Here's an Idea for the Holidays:Give yourself the guilt-free gift of healthBy January 1 are you anxiety ridden? Are you full of regret from eating too much? Are you tired but staying energized with coffee or energy shots? You are not alone.
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Health Blog: Omega-3s and Pain ManagementWhy do physicians ignore evidence that omega-3s help manage pain?As many as 46 million Americans are all too familiar with pain and suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, gout, lupus or fibromyalgia. The Centers for Disease Control reported this month that this number will dramatically increase to 67 million Americans by 2030.
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Food Blog: Alkaline Foods May Curb Ills of the Western DietEating the right ratio of alkaline to acidic foods?A favorite pastime of mine on Saturdays is to people watch (and eavesdrop) at the farmer’s market. Boulder, Colorado offers no shortage of interesting conversations to overhear. Recently, I overheard a comment at the market about alkaline foods, something about low-acid … high-alkaline foods … no more arthritis symptoms.
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Health Blog: Alzheimer’s Risk Reduced with Fun, Fitness and Omega-3s Alzheimer’s: want the good news about avoiding it? Live life as if you are on a Greek vacation. That is the latest scientific news about how to reduce one’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and keep your brain health. The prevalence for developing the disease is growing, as are health problems for family members caring for patients. |
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Food Blog: Eat your tomatoes... because you're worth it At a recent conference on the concept of “beauty from within,” someone asked me what I do for my skin? Was it some expensive elixir? Was it a regular trip to the spa? I didn’t have an answer because I do very little for my skin, at least on the outside. I wash with a gently cleanser and use a serum that claims to diminish those pesky fine lines (I am not sure that it works), but most of all I wear a hat and sunscreen and I eat foods and take supplements rich in antioxidants. Lately, since living on a farm, I even wear clothes with sunscreen. |
As parents, how many times have we heard, “Do I have to eat this?” When it comes to antibiotics in our food, that answer is no! In honor of moms and future moms, on this Mother’s Day a group of food professionals (moms and dads alike) are asking all of us to take a moment to join the campaign, 
In case you need one more reason to add fish oil to your diet, on April 6, 2011, researchers from the Fox Chase Cancer Center presented breaking research showing that omega-3 fatty acids boost the effectiveness of a common breast-cancer drug, tamoxifen. 
At a recent health-food conference and tradeshow, I was reminded of a Jimmy Buffet song that says, “We are the people our parents warned us about.” Three acclaimed speakers at the conference agreed that when it comes to feeding our children nutritious foods and keeping them as healthy as possible (both of which are lacking) we have no one to blame but ourselves.
Did you eat today? If so, you can thank a farmworker. This is National Farmworker Awareness Week (March 27-April 2). For every tomato and head of lettuce you put in your shopping cart this spring, there is a farmworker in California, Texas, Washington, Florida, Oregon and North Carolina who handpicked it for you. And if the food wasn’t grown organically, there is a good chance a farmworker and a child was exposed to harmful pesticides.
