Category Archives: Food and Nutrition
Citicoline Energy Drink: Improves Brain & Heals Stroke?
Do Citicoline drinks and gels sharpen mind, boost energy? In today’s globalized and hypercompetitive world, people need to speed up just to keep pace. This culture of speed is driving the demand for energy drinks and supplements, marketed on claims that drinking them clears your mind and helps you focus. Last year, Americans spent about [...]
Are Strawberries With Methyl Iodide Safe to Eat?
Green groups, California regulators face off over strawberry farm poison: Before you pop that strawberry into your mouth, consider this: you could be helping poison the farmers who grow these strawberries, as well as their children, and the groundwater in the farms they tend. That’s according to the Pesticide Action Network (PAN), other environmental activists [...]
Chocolate Addiction Treatment: Exercise, Baby!
“Our ongoing work consistently shows that brief bouts of physical activity reduce cigarette cravings, but this is the first study to link exercise to reduced chocolate cravings,” wrote Dr. Adrian Taylor, lead author.
“Neuroscientists have suggested common processes in the reward centers of the brain between drug and food addictions, and it may be that exercise effects brain chemicals that help to regulate mood and cravings,” Dr. Taylor said. “This could be good news for people who struggle to manage their cravings for sugary snacks and want to lose weight.”
“Chocolate has a number of biologically active constituents that temporarily enhance our mood with a result that eating it can become a habit, particularly when we are under stress and when it is readily available, and perhaps when we are least active,” he said.
Broccoli Helps Fight Heart Disease, Undo Diabetes Damage
Eating broccoli can help protect against heart disease and even undo the damage that diabetes wreaks on blood vessel cells because it contains a potent compound called sulforaphane.
Two studies conducted in 2008, one done by American researchers and the other by a British team, came to this conclusion.
Findings of a study conducted by a team from the University of Connecticut’s cardiovascular research center suggest that eating broccoli may trigger the production of proteins that protect against heart damage. The study was published in The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry in 2008.
Fake Blueberries in Cereals & Muffins: Kellog’s, General Mils, & Betty Crocker
[/caption]All fruits are ‘stars’ that pack significant health benefits, but blueberries are absolute superstars. Blueberries abound with antioxidants, vitamin C, dietary fiber, potassium and other essential nutrients, so much so that many nutritionists think of blueberries as a superfood.
They are known to be beneficial to the skin, improve brain function, prevent Alzheimer’s and dementia, and lower the risk of heart disease and cancer. At only 42 calories per 1/2 cup serving, blueberries are ideal as a smart snack option.
