Archive for August, 2010
Minors and Plane Tickets
This particular headline isn’t about food, but I recently encountered this situation and it really irritated me to say the least. First, let me say that I get really disgusted when companies attempt to “do good” at the expense of their customers. For example, hotels promote an aura of environmental responsibility by asking their customers [...]
In: Tweet, Uncategorized
Cholesterol Drugs at Fast Food Joints?
Talk about “news of the weird”. When I first saw this headline, I really scoffed. I thought, what an insane idea and quite honestly, I still think it’s way over the top. In a study published in the American Journal of Cardiology, scientists from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London calculated [...]
In: Cholesterol, Diet, Disease, Heart Disease, Tweet
Seems We’ve Been Eating Meat Longer Than Thought
To further erode the famous anthropological theory of our origins, new evidence has appeared indicating that we’ve been using tools and eating meat for much longer than what was originally thought. Shannon McPherron of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and colleagues say the find is evidence that Australopithecus afarensis – [...]
In: Anthropology, Diet, Tweet
Cancer Cells Slurp Up Fructose!
Thanks to one of the sharp participants in the ZIOH Facebook group, I found this amazing story in Reuters. The major soft drink makers have long contended that sugar is sugar and the experts who have been bought and paid for by them have agreed. They funded many large academic centers and made many in [...]
In: Cancer, Diabetes, Diet, Disease, Heart Disease, Insulin, Obesity, Sugar, Tweet
Does Eating Fat Hinder Sleep?
Jennifer LaRue Huget wrote an article the other day in the Washington Post that I had to comment on. Apparently, she was urged by colleagues of hers to write a story about foods which hinder sleep. To her dismay, she basically found that no foods really fit that description. However, that didn’t stop her from [...]
