Probiotic Pizza?
There are times I’m alternately fascinated and repelled by the stuff the food industry comes up with. On the one hand, I can’t really object to entrepreneurs pushing healthier versions of not-so-healthy-but-extremely-popular food products… but on the other hand, it seems somewhat exploitative too. Marketing better quality junk/snack/convenience foods as “healthy” implies that consumers don’t...
Nutrition Bars Not So Healthy For Teeth
In my local supermarkets, nutrition/energy bars are big business… Fred Meyer, Safeway and Albertson’s all devote a decent amount of shelf space to them. At Freddy’s – where I shop most often – they’re in the “Health Food” section… after all, they’re so healthy! Right? Kinda sorta. Sure, there are all manner of bars with good-for-you ingredients like nuts, seeds, peanut...
“if you need a study to tell you sugar water is bad for you than you are probably dumb.”
LOL – I didn’t write that, just so you know. It’s one of the comments posted in response to this article in the Sacramento Bee. A sweeping statewide study released today points to soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages as one of the main reasons why we are fat. “For the first time, we have strong scientific evidence that soda is one of the – if not the largest – contributors to the obesity epidemic,”...
Can Exercise Make You Smarter?
According to this NYT discussion of current research, the answer may be yes… For some time, researchers have known that exercise changes the structure of the brain and affects thinking. Ten years ago scientists at the Salk Institute in California published the groundbreaking finding that exercise stimulates the creation of new brain cells. But fundamental questions remain, like whether exercise must be strenuous to be...
Watch – and Wash – Your Hands!
From a personal health perspective, I was fortunate in my choice of career… since I worked with bacteria, viruses, animal blood/tissue samples and a large number of hazardous chemicals, I rapidly unlearned certain involuntary gestures, like unconsciously scratching my nose, brushing the hair away from my face and/or rubbing my eyes. My hands had to be kept away from my face at ALL times when gloved and/or gowned. It was...
School-Based Program is Effective for Reducing Weight and Improving Health
A two year study conducted by researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine demonstrated that intensive nutrition/health education can improve body composition and lipid levels in overweight/obese children. Researchers compared two groups of overweight and obese Mexican-American students between the ages of 10 and 14. Forty were in a treatment group and 20 did not receive treatment and were studied as a comparison or control group....
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