According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 12 million people are diagnosed with cancer each year; however, approximately two out of five cancers are potentially preventable.
This year, the WHO is acknowledging World Cancer Day (February 4) by promoting ways to ease the global burden of cancer. This year’s theme [...]
Filed under: books and articles, cancer on February 5th, 2010 | No Comments »
Here’s a very good article from Janet Helm for the Chicago Tribune, listing nutrition trends for this year.
One issue I am seeing time and again is the demand for fresh foods as a health boost due to the increasing concern about health care.
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Filed under: books and articles, nutrition on January 13th, 2010 | No Comments »
I stumbled across this review at www.ific.org, the International Food Information Council, which explains quite well how to read and interpret a published research study.
This article methodically examines each section of the publication, the scientific process, the types of research studies and how to interpret the data.
How to Understand and Interpret Food and [...]
Filed under: books and articles, miscellaneous on August 19th, 2009 | No Comments »
Dr. Joseph F. McCaffrey wrote an article for Total Health Breakthroughs regarding the recent studies on sulforaphane’s effects on Helicobacter pylori. The most recent published study indicated people who ate broccoli sprouts with high levels of SGS experienced a substantial reduction in H. pylori infection.
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Filed under: SGS, books and articles, sprouts, stomach on June 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »
If you’re going to be in the Baltimore area Saturday, May 16th, you may want to meet Michael Pollan and talk about his book, In Defense of Food.
According to the announcement:
Pollan proposes a new answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: “Eat food. Not [...]
Filed under: books and articles, speaking opportunities on April 16th, 2009 | No Comments »
According to a Japanese study, 40,500 men and women who drank at least five cups of green tea daily greatly reduced their risk of heart disease. If you find that’s an awful lot of tea, adding lemon juice will allow you to drink one or two cups a day because the Vitamin C increases [...]
Filed under: books and articles, heart, tea on April 15th, 2009 | No Comments »
David Mendosa wrote a nice article about BroccoSprouts over at MyDiabetesCentral.com. He mentions the study last year from Britain suggesting that sulforaphane reduces blood vessel damage from diabetes.
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Filed under: books and articles, diabetes, sprouts on February 26th, 2009 | No Comments »
NaturalNews.com has a good article about the effects of milk caseins on tea polyphenols. Essentially, the caseins tend to cancel out the positive effects of EGCG on blood vessel relaxation.
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Filed under: books and articles, tea on February 19th, 2009 | No Comments »
World Tea News.com asked Doug Balentine, director of nutrition sciences for Lipton/Unilever, a series of questions relating to the scientific study on the health benefits of tea. Dr. Balentine’s answers are quite informative.
Tea and Health, Questions and Answers.
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Filed under: books and articles, tea on January 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
Here are a couple of great articles listing foods you really should add to your weekly menus.
Fight Cancer With These 10 Foods, with broccoli sprouts’ 3-day antioxidant action listed at number 2 and green and black tea’s compounds listed at number 5.
And a list of Superfoods courtesy of Prevention magazine, and captured by msn.com.
Superfoods: The [...]
Filed under: books and articles, sprouts, tea on January 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »
