How you cook your vegetables makes a big difference in their nutritional profiles. For instance, if you want more fiber you should eat them raw, but sometimes cooking them can increase antioxidants and vitamin availability. But, not just any cooking will do. Different vegetables need different kinds of cooking. A study in The Journal [...]
Here we are in southern California, 80 degrees, sunny and beautiful. You’d be crazy not to want to be outdoors on days like this. Yesterday we went to the Queen Mary and spent the day walking around in the sun. Now, most people don’t think twice about soaking up some rays on a nice [...]
Several months ago I wrote an article about teaching good dental hygiene to kids. Somewhere in there I mentioned fluoride and that I didn’t really know what to think of it. Since then I’ve done some thinking and have gotten off the fence about it. While not an expert on the matter I think [...]
Cacao is a bean that grows in pods on the cacao tree. It was used by the Olmecs 3,000 years ago who called it the “food of the gods,” and it was transported back to Europe by Hernán Cortez and Christopher Columbus. But it remained an obscure curiosity to Europeans, as they didn’t know what to [...]
According to this report there are about to be new food labeling guidelines set forth by the FDA requiring nutritional information to be printed on the front of food packaging. The rule currently states that nutritional information can be anywhere on the package as long as a customers can easily read it. Now, according [...]
Weight lifting, and other resistance training, isn’t just for high schoolers and muscle heads. It’s for anybody who wants to be healthier and stay that way into old age. A study, published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, found that men in their 20′s, 30′s and 40′s gained just as much muscle [...]
I was sitting around this past weekend and noticed my friend, who had come to visit, at my kitchen table scooping strawberries out of a mug. I was drinking some tasty Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime tea. I asked him “What gives with the berries in the mug?” He said “Why not use real fruit for tea if [...]
I don’t typically watch The Biggest Loser. I’ve had the impression for a long time that it’s 9 parts circus to 1 part actually helping people. I felt that if I watched the show I’d be perpetuating the cycle of gawking at clumsy fat people in real life, which most people do but don’t admit [...]
David Mackay, CEO of Kellogg’s, says “I don’t understand why there’s so much negativity” when asked about the healthfulness of his kid cereals. Well, maybe because you’re top selling kid cereals are literally half full of sugar. Now, I’m not an expert on breakfast cereals so maybe loading half of the stuff up with [...]
If I had just 10 foods to pick from to make my diet, these would be them. I’d also love to add things like Avocados, Olive Oil and Blueberries because of their own sheer awesomeness. But, I tried to keep it to ten with a few extra mentions along the way. These [...]
I used to run – a lot. At my peak I was running almost 100 miles a week, and I felt like I was in good shape. My resting heart rate was 40 bpm (I measured it once at 38 but I can’t be sure I didn’t count wrong), I was skinny at 155 [...]
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