Archive for May, 2010
Weekend ZC: Avoid French Fries and Alli!
Tweet Have a great weekend. But as you do, please keep in mind that no matter how healthy they make french fries, they’re still french fries! For goodness’s sake, people. Contrary to fears, most food manufacturers and restaurants did not just swap one bad ingredient for another when they trimmed artery-clogging trans fats from products [...]
High Blood Pressure? Better Take that Medicine!
Tweet Almost one in three adults has high blood pressure. In 1988, only about 27 percent of them kept it under control. By 2007-08, that number had climbed to 50 percent, according to the study in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association. Half of the 70 million Americans with high blood pressure are keeping [...]
In: Diabetes, Diet, Hypertension, Obesity, Tweet
Specialty Stores, Skinny People and Salmonella
Tweet Strange headline, right? Of course it is. However, I couldn’t help thinking of these things this morning as I browsed one of our many specialty stores this morning looking for some full-fat yogurt. Very hard to find. Everything is low-fat and gross. Adam Drewnowski, a University of Washington epidemiology professor who studies obesity and [...]
In: Diet, Disease, Immune System, Tweet
The Untold Pain of Vegetarianism
Tweet I saw a rather obscure article over at MSNBC regarding an an 88-year-old Chinese woman who ate enough raw bok choy to send herself into a life-threatening, thyroid-induced coma. The strange thing was (according to the experts who reported on this) was that she did all of this eating vegetables, which they believe to [...]
In: Diet, Disease, Immune System, Tweet, Vitamins
Food Makers to Trim 1.5 Trillion Calories
Tweet If that headline is not one of the biggest “so whats” I have ever read, I don’t know what is. Let’s think about this for a moment. Food makers will trim calories from their foods. Isn’t this remarkably similar to corporate tax? With corporate tax, it’s kind of like a legal fiction. If you [...]
In: Cholesterol, Diet, Disease, Obesity
