| Healthy diet - is there such a thing? | | Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 12:08:27 PM by Kate Grant | If you want to be healthy, don't go on a diet. Yo-yo diets are what's causing your body to gain more weight in the long run. Researchers debate whether diets are healthy. Healthy living means adopting healthy eating habits, preventing diseases such as diabetes or heart disease.
 Learning what is good for your body, and educating your children about what's healthy and safe, will help them grow in a much healthier way and be healthier as adults.
A healthy diet contains all the vitamins and nutrients our body needs, whether you are a vegetarian or eat meat.
Physical activity is another component of a healthy diet. Don't try all those diet fads, like a liquid diet, or any other kind that promise you the best results in 3 weeks.
They'll only cause your body to gain the weight back when you stop the diet, and will make you gain even more. Healthy diets are usually free, just pay attention to what you put into your body and don't treat it as a dumpster.
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| | | Go figure | | Posted Sunday, January 21, 2007 12:54:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YEAR, a new you. That's the tantalising promise from a whole heap of titles all claiming to be the definitive guide to fighting the flab and wrinkles. One author insists that drinking red wine every day will turn you sylph-like, while the ubiquitous Gillian McKeith advises detoxing by eating large quantities of spinach and seeds, and yet another regime - endorsed by Jemma Kidd, Courteney Cox, Julia Roberts and the Jennifers Lopez and Aniston - promises that eating cold-water fish will banish both weight and wrinkles. Kylie Minogue and Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall are big fans of the low glycaemic index programme, which recommends a diet high in pulses, soya milk, seafood and oatmeal. Or you could try the Japan diet, which involves 30 days of vegetables, lean meat and fresh fish.... | |
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| | | Diet & Dental Health | | Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 2:53:51 PM by Blog57 Team | | Diets low in certain nutrients reduce resistance to oral and dental infections, that is, periodontal disease (gum disease) and decay. A healthy immune system is essential to controlling periodontal disease. Counseling in the Four Basic Food groups will improve dental health and general health. The consumption of sugar, especially in sticky forms or in a baby bottle while sleeping, contributes to the rapid development of dental decay. The trace nutrient fluoride, may not be adequately supplied by bottle or municipal water supplies. Supplementation with oral tablets and topical application will reduce the incidence of dental decay by more than 60%. Together, a balanced diet, daily use of fluoride, effective brushing, and sensible eating habits can reduce the risk of, or even prevent, infectious dental disease.... | |
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| | | A 20-year study finds no association between low-carb diets and risk of coronary heart disease | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 6:59:46 AM by Blog57 Team | | Boston, MA -- Advocates of low-carbohydrate diets, such as the popular Atkins diet, claim that those diets may help prevent obesity and coronary heart disease (CHD). However, the long-term safety of those diets has been debated, particularly because they encourage the consumption of animal products, which are high in saturated fats and cholesterol and could potentially increase the risk of CHD. Prevailing dietary recommendations have advocated a contrary approach, recommending diets that are low in fat and high in carbohydrates as the best way to manage weight and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. In the first study to look at the long-term effects of low-carbohydrate diets, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) found no evidence of an association between low-carb diets and an increased risk of CHD in women.... | |
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| | | Towards a European Strategy on nutrition a healthy diets | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 1:01:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | Your theme of "Food for life – meeting consumers' needs" is highly topical – and a central concern for the society and a real challenge for the food industry. I congratulate the CIAA on the consumer orientated nature of its congress programme. This certainly strikes the right note in a timely manner. We knew for long that a number of serious health conditions are directly linked to poor diet, or lack of physical activity. Moreover, obesity is now universally recognised as a multi-faceted problem – one which has been on the increase over the past three decades. It is important to assess and consider the impacts that obesity can exert on health at both individual and societal level. Obesity increases the risk of a number of severe medical conditions – including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and some forms of cancer.... | |
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| | | Low-Carb Diet Doesn't Up Heart Risk | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 6:58:33 AM by Blog57 Team | | Critics of low-carbohydrate diets claim that they promote heart disease, but one of the first studies to examine the long-term effects of low-carb eating suggests otherwise. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health found no evidence of an association between low-carbohydrate diets and increased cardiovascular risk, even when these diets were high in saturated animal fats. Low-carb eating even seemed to be protective against heart disease when vegetables were the main sources of fat and protein in the diet. The study, which appears tomorrow in the New England Journal of Medicine, included almost 83,000 female nurses in the Nurses' Health Study who provided detailed information about their eating patterns once per year for more than 20 years.... | |
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| | | Cleansing diets: Real or pure myth? | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:56:02 AM by Blog57 Team | | CATHY SMITH was often tired and felt kind of crummy. Maybe another cleansing diet would help by clearing her body of all the excesses of modern life ? caffeine, sugar, alcohol and more. So this past spring, the 43-year-old Minneapolis woman signed up with a chiropractor for a cleansing program. She gradually eliminated certain foods from her diet, one by one. First, of course, came sugar and caffeine. Then meat and dairy products. Finally she was eating only rice and vegetables and a noxious supplement she drank twice a day. Then, slowly, she started adding foods back again. Four weeks and about $400 later, she felt worse than ever. "I don't know if I would do it again," she said of her fourth and most recent detoxification regimen. "You are led to believe a lot of wonderful things will happen, and that wasn't the story for me." Detoxing and cleansing are all the rage.... | |
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| | | Single Molecule Makes Obese Mice Healthy | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 10:59:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | Researchers have used a single compound to increase the lifespan of obese mice, and found that the drug reversed nearly all of the changes in gene expression patterns found in mice on high calorie dietssome of which are associated with diabetes, heart disease, and other significant diseases related to obesity. The research, led by investigators at Harvard Medical School and the National Institute on Aging, is the first time that the small molecule resveratrol has been shown to offer survival benefits in a mammal. The study is reported in the November 1 advanced online edition of Nature. .... | |
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| | | Fitfood: Ease out sugar from kids' diets | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 6:53:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | My kids seem to whine for sugary food all the time. What can I do to help them break the sugar habit? Answer: There are steps you can take to help your children kick the sugar habit. Prudence Athearn Levy, a registered dietitian with Cherry Creek Nutrition, says it can start by turning off the soda pop spigot. A regular 12-ounce soda has about 40 grams of sugar, which equals 10 teaspoons of sugar. "The USDA estimates kids ages 12 to 19 drink about a half-quart of soda each day," she says. "Unfortunately, it is replacing healthier drinks like water and low-fat milk." Levy suggests aiming for limiting sugar calories to less than 10 percent of your kids' daily intake. "High sugar consumption is not only linked with obesity in children, but it is also linked with dental problems, diabetes, and heart disease," she says.... | |
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| | | Trial aims to find out which diets work | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 2:56:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | A new Australian clinical trial hopes to answer the question about which diets work and why. Healthy volunteers will be kept in controlled laboratory conditions for a week and fed diets with different levels of protein. Professor Steven Simpson from the University of Sydney has a theory that people and animals keep eating until they have had enough protein. He has already proven the idea in caterpillars, now he wants to test it on humans. Twenty-four volunteers will live in controlled conditions for a week. "By controlling very tightly the per cent of protein in the diet we can see what effect that has on their appetite and the amount of calories they eat in total, as well their metabolic responses," he said.... | |
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| | | have we all been lied to about how much food we need to live ... | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:54:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | Still I can't help wondering how low can I go? ...and have we all been lied to about how much food we need to live healthy? What a waste! and all down the toilet?! Posted by: Joseph at October 24, 2006 8:31 PM Yes, Joseph, we have all been lied to about how much food we need to live healthy. We've been lied to by family members who just want us to be happy but don't understand that eating a second helping of pasta won't accomplish that. We've been lied to by a food industry that turns poisons into profits. We've been lied to by the USDA, which is more beholden to industry and agriculture than to science. And finally, we've been lied to by our own bodies, which (through no fault of their own!) are adapted to survive famines, make as many babies as possible as quickly as possible, and insulate us for winters.... | |
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