Mono-Sodium Glutamate (looks like a little pile of white powder and causes as much damage as other little piles of white powder!!!)Diet Soda Now Linked to Heart Disease
With thanks to Mercola.com, Reuters, CBS News and Circulation 2008;117:754-761:
Drinking diet soda increases the risk of metabolic syndrome.
Sue :: Feb.23.2008 :: diet :: No Comments »
The Perils of Coca Cola
With thanks to Nutrition Research Centre.org and Mercola.com
Don’t drink cola if you want to be healthy. Consuming soft drinks is bad for so many reasons that science cannot even state all the consequences. But one thing we know for sure is that drinking Coke, as a representative of soft drinks, wreaks havoc on the human organism. What happens?
Sue :: Feb.17.2008 :: diet :: No Comments »
Hawaii Moves to Ban Aspartame
Ginger inhibits cell growth and modulates angiogenic factors in ovarian cancer cells
Ginger inhibits cell growth and modulates angiogenic factors in ovarian cancer cells Jennifer Rhode, Sarah Fogoros, Suzanna Zick, Heather Wahl, Kent A. Griffith, Jennifer Huang and J. Rebecca Liu BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2007, 7:44 Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jan.24.2008 :: diet :: No Comments »
Omega 3 - fish or capsules?
Eating fish or taking fish oil capsules are equally good sources of Omega 3. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jan.17.2008 :: diet :: No Comments »
Vitamin C and HIV
Vitamin C can inhibit the virus in test tubes, although it has not shown the same effect in the human body. It can help boost the immune system, however. Very high doses of vitamin C are sometimes used as supportive therapy. The dose must be determined and monitored by your doctor. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jan.11.2008 :: diet, pathology, research :: No Comments »
Tart cherries may relieve pain better than aspirin
The Journal of Natural Products, published by the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society, concluded that tart cherries may relieve pain better than aspirin and many other anti-inflammatory drugs. It turns out that consumption of about 20 cherries reduces inflammation in a similar manner as aspirin or Cox-2 inhibiting drugs without the lethal side effects of gastric bleeding or vitamin depletion associated with these drugs. The molecules in cherries, called anthocyanins, work to reduce inflammation at ten times less dosage than aspirin. Continue Reading »
Sue :: Jan.11.2008 :: diet, pathology, research :: No Comments »
Official: organic really is better
THE biggest study into organic food has found that it is more nutritious than ordinary produce and may help to lengthen people’s lives.
Sue :: Nov.02.2007 :: diet :: No Comments »
Selenium supplements may reduce the risk of heart disease by inhibiting the oxidation of LDL (”bad”) cholesterol, suggests a small study from Italy
Selenium supplements may reduce the risk of heart disease by inhibiting the oxidation of LDL (”bad”) cholesterol, suggests a small study from Italy Continue Reading »
Sue :: Sep.29.2007 :: diet :: No Comments »