Research Indicates Fruits and Vegetables Don't Prevent Cancer
In a blow to the, "Food is Medicine" crowd the results of a recent study indicate that fruits and vegetables have little, if any, anti-cancer effects.
Despite being told for years about the mystical and...
Orthorexia is an Eating Disorder You May Not Have Heard Of
Orthorexia is an eating disorder – or form of disordered eating – that you may not have heard about, but apparently is becoming a real problem among people who think that they are engaged...
Right Size Weight Loss Smoothies Get a "Do Not Buy Recommendation"
Right Size Weight Loss Smoothies advertise that thanks to the ingredient appemine people can quickly and easily lose weight by drinking two smoothies per day. In the year 2010 nobody should be impressed but,...
Why You Should Add A Protein Drink Into Your Daily Routine
Life is hectic. Whether you’re a student, a parent, a working stiff or a member of any other demographic sometimes life gets in the way of healthy eating habits. As a result too often...
Hoodia Weight Loss Supplements Get A Do Not Buy Recommendation
Over the past several years hoodia in all of its various forms – also known as hoodia gordonii – has been hailed as the magic bullet of weight loss supplement that may help end...
President Obama Can Smoke, Eat and Drink What He Wants, Why Can't We?
Last week there was a story in the media about how President Obama was in Savannah Georgia and stopped into a restaurant to enjoy some traditional southern cooking. The president sat down at a...
Taxing Pizza and Soda Represents a Loss of Freedom
There’s another hare-brained, yet insulting, proposal that’s being forwarded by those pesky, ubiquitous “group of researchers.” These lab-coated butt-in-skis have decided that taxing pizza and soda at a rate of 18% will reduce the...
Does Quercetin Work?
Quercetin is an antioxidant and one of the hot new nutritional supplements on the market today. Touted as having a wide-range of benefits, it is the key ingredient in the new Lance Armstrong endorsed...
Calculate Your Basal Metabolic Rate
I don’t believe in counting calories in order to restrict caloric intake. Rather I promote caloric awareness in the effort to get people to realize that they usually don’t eat enough food, not that...
The Taco Bell Diet: No Worse Than Any Other, Popular Diet
Taco Bell is running an advertising campaign that features a woman who claims to have lost 54-pounds by eating the fast food chain’s reduced-fat “Fresco” items (The Taco Bell Diet). The caloric content of...
