Syndrome X — 60 to 75 million Americans have it. According to Dr. Gerald Reaven, who discovered Syndrome X, it is the number one predictor of heart disease. And that good diet prescribed by your cardiologist can be deadly. If you have Syndrome X, carefully dieting to lower your total …
A study of rats links low doses of aspartame — the sweetener in NutraSweet, Equal, and thousands of consumer products — to leukemia and lymphoma. But food industry officials point out that many other studies have found no link between aspartame and cancer. The rats in the study were fed …
Dear Betty, My review of the first Ramazzini Study concluded that the study was one of the best designed, comprehensive and conclusive studies done to date on the multipotent carcinogenic potential of aspartame. This second study is even more conclusive, in that it shows a dose-dependent statistically significant increase in …
Want to lose weight? It might help to pour that diet soda down the drain. Researchers have laboratory evidence that the widespread use of no-calorie sweeteners may actually make it harder for people to control their intake and body weight. Psychologists at Purdue University’s Ingestive Behavior Research Center reported that …
Even if you aren’t a full-blown diabetic, you can still have blood sugar issues that keep you from feeling your best. If you find that you experience wide fluctuations in blood sugar levels throughout the day, going from high’s to low’s in a matter of minutes, it’s no doubt that …
Sugar is empty calories that raise the insulin level as soon as we eat it. Too much sugar into the bloodstream upsets the body’s blood-sugar balance, triggering the release of insulin. Insulin is a hormone with extensive effects on both metabolism and several other body systems (e.g., vascular compliance). When …
Health issues associated with the consumption of sugar are numerous. Since refined sugar and high fructose corn syrup are two simple sugars that are the most common additives in food, it is helpful to know just how many health conditions one is risking by over-consuming sugar. Naturally, one of the big health issues related to the consumption of sugar is obesity. Refinedsugar, and sugars …
The first sweetened cup of hot tea to be drunk by an English worker was a significant historical event, because it prefigured the transformation of an entire society, a total remaking of its economic and social basis. We must struggle to understand fully the consequences of that and kindred events …
Topics: Can a Baby Aspirin a Day Keep Cancer Away? Type 3 Diabetes and Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer’s Disease. Is Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS) Cancer or Not? The Antibiotic Era is in Trouble. Callers: Allan (Boston): Brain Atrophy in Cerebellum and Cervical Disc Problems George (Long Island): Hepatitis C …
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (11.8MB) | Embed
Monsanto developed Neotame as their Aspartame patent was expiring, and had no trouble in gaining FDA approval in 2002. They added 3-dimethylbutyl, a chemical listed as hazardous by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to Aspartame, making it both sweeter and more toxic. Toxicity Both Aspartame and Neotame contain …
Americans think an awful lot about sucrose — table sugar — but only in certain ways. We crave it and dream up novel ways to combine it with other ingredients to produce delectable foods; and we worry that we eat too much of it and that it is making us …
Submitted by Drew Kaplan on November 15, 2011 http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-sugar-heart-20111113,0,3997779.stor A new study shows a woman’s chance of getting heart disease greatly increases from just a couple of sugary drinks a day. Even those lucky enough to be able to eat and drink anything they want and not gain weight …
Alliance for Natural Health USA On November 14, 2011
http://www.anh-usa.org/ada-claims-were-lying-so-why-cant-they-rebut/
They call our statements “erroneous,” “ridiculous,” “untruths,” “falsehoods,” and “outright lies,” but each of our “wild accusations” are solidly documented!
Last week we ran an article about ReallyEatRight.org [1], a website designed to shine light on the American Dietetic Association’s partnership with the junk food and pharmaceutical industries and its attempts to monopolize nutrition services. In response, Dietitians in Nutrition Support (a dietetic practice group of the ADA) posted a counter-attack [2], which contained a letter signed by the president of the ADA, accusing us of presenting a “one sided and misleading portrayal of ADA” and of having “a hidden agenda.”
Our agenda is open and transparent. We want the ADA to stop fueling the obesity and diabetes epidemic through their associations with Coca-Cola (allowing Coke to create a program about “urban myths” about the safety of food ingredients, which concluded that fluoride, sugar, artificial colors, and non-nutritive sweeteners are perfectly fine for children [3]), cereal manufacturers General Mills and Kellogg’s, candy maker Mars, and Unilever, the multinational corporation that owns many of the world’s consumer products brands in foods and beverages.
The chair of the ADA practice group, whose focus is on giving nutrition support to individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings, including home care and pediatrics, said, “ANH has criticized ADA in the past—and will likely do so in the future—for our alleged efforts to suppress ‘nutritionists’ from earning a living.” (Notice those condescending quotation marks around “nutritionists”?) Well, that’s the other part of our open and transparent agenda: We want the ADA to stop convincing state legislatures that only dietitians can dispense nutritional counseling at the state level.
Food Safety News | Nov 07, 2011
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/11/tests-show-most-store-honey-isnt-honey/\
More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn’t exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News.
The results show that the pollen frequently has been filtered out of products labeled “honey.”
The removal of these microscopic particles from deep within a flower would make the nectar flunk the quality standards set by most of the world’s food safety agencies.
The food safety divisions of the World Health Organization, the European Commission and dozens of others also have ruled that without pollen there is no way to determine whether the honey came from legitimate and safe sources.
A specter is haunting America, the specter of obesity. According to the U.S. Centers of Disease Control’s 2007–2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), nearly three-quarters (73.7%) of all Americans 20 years and older are either overweigh, obese or extremely obese. In 2008, the U.S. population was estimated at approximately 300 million people, of which 220 million were overweight.
This overweight population breaks down as follows: 34.2 percent are overweight, 33.8 percent are obese and 5.7 percent are extremely obese. Scarier still, approximately 17 percent (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents aged 2 to 19 years are obese. One can only assume, as the economic crisis deepens, this situation is getting worse.
Obesity has social consequences. The Archives of Internal Medicine reported in 2010 that the U.S. spends an estimated $147 billion annually treating obesity-related illnesses. A half-century ago, President Eisenhower identified the military-industrial complex as a threat to the nation; it now dominates politics and the economy. As the 21st century unfolds, an obesity-industrial complex can be identified. Like its military compatriots, its influence on America’s body politic is no less consequential.
The First Lady, Michelle Obama, has taken up the issue of obesity, promoting a well-intentioned, but clearly doomed, campaign dubbed “Let’s Move.” As she acknowledged, “one in three kids are overweight or obese.” Her program is boldly aimed to eliminate the “problem of childhood obesity in a generation.” The campaign’s key features are: getting parents more informed about nutrition and exercise; improving the quality of food in schools; making healthy foods more affordable and accessible for families; and promoting more physical education.