News Stories for a Saturday Morning

Food

How 8 Famous Cheeses Got Their Names (Mental Floss)

Vegan diets becoming more popular, more mainstream (Washington Post)

The 7 Most Essential Pots and Pans (Serious Eats)

Five Worst Cookbooks of 2010 (PCRM)

What are your Baby Carrots dipped in? (Julie Daniluk)

Funny

Foodie Terms That Make Me Cringe (Hungry Meets Healthy)

Rant: Extreme Couponing (Sarah for Real)

The Most Superlative Food Trends List Anywhere. (5 Second Rule)

Fitness

World’s Best Yoga Spots (Lonely Planet)

day 123: health news

Here are some interesting news articles that piqued my interested as of late.

The worst drinks in America

An “eat this, not that” that hones in on when you should eat 20 Reese Peanut Butter cups or 6 Kirspy Kremes rather than quenching your thirst. (Design Verb)

Added Fibres

Your best best is to go with whole food sources of fibres. Find out which added fibres can upset your tummy.  (RealAge)

Raw Chocolate

I don’t know if I buy into the raw chocolate hype, but I can tell you that ChocoSol’s dark chocolate has a delicious nutty, coffee flavour. (Globe & Mail)

Canada’s teen birth and abortion rate drops by 36.9 per cent

Attributed to Canada’s “balanced, sensible approach to adolescent sexual health“. (Globe & Mail)

Childhood Peanut Allergies Triple over Past Decade

Attributed to reduced exposure to bacteria. Hmmm…. (Food Production Daily)

Vitamin Water: Marketing a Myth

Get your water from the tape and get your anti-oxidants from real fruit, not sugar water. (Huffington Post)

For better tone, try fewer reps and more challenging weights

I’d really love to see more ladies doing heavy lifting at the gym! (NY Times)

How Much LifeForce Energy is in Your Food

Foods that contain and emit the most sunlight energy. Their cells are capable of capturing and maintaining greater amounts of ultraviolet rays from the sun. (CrazySexyLife)

The Fatter we Get, the Less We Seem to Notice

“Overweight individuals today are less likely to classify themselves as “overweight” in contrast to overweight individuals surveyed over a decade ago”. (Obecity Panacea)

Great charts showing GMO Crops in the US:

The increase in the amount of GM corn, soy, and cotton in the US over the past 10 years is astronomical! (Food Politics)

day 73: health news for a saturday morning

Here’s a collection of health news that I’ve found interesting from this week and last week:
Phthalates Linked to Early Onset Puberty in Girls (Planet Green)

We knew that they were affecting the hormones of young boys, but now evidence shows that phthalates (the stuff that makes your perfume smell great) are also cause for concern in young girls. Is this really surprising? Just one more thing to worrying about when you put on your face in the morning, ladies.
If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out www.cosmeticsdatabase.com to see all the ways your beauty products are killing you.

Science is changing the way we eat: (Wired)

From GMO’s to meat grown in a lab (appetizing, no?), this article is enough to put you off from eating. Whatever happened to real food?

Butter or Margarine (The Globe and Mail)

The age-old debate that just won’t die. In my house the battle lines are drawn: rich, delicious churned cream for me and spreadable plastic for Matt. What’s your preference?

Addicted to Fat: Overeating May Alter the Brain as Much as Hard Drugs (Scientific American)

Maybe schools should be teaching “Say NO to Fat” too.

8 Power Ingredients for Super Healthy Smoothies (That’s Fit)

1. whey protein isolate, 2. plain yoghurt, 3. cinnamon, 4. berries, 5. ground flax, 6. chia, 7. l-glutamine, 8. inositol

Spoiler Alert: Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Results Are In (Food Politics)

What West Virginia really thinks about the cook.

Post weight-loss: Workout Harder not Longer (Sweat Science)

That’s what I like to hear! I love intensity.

Pure Maple Syrup Contains Medicinally Beneficial Compounds (Science Daily)

Maple Syrup has anti-oxidant, anti-cancer, anti-bacterial and anti-diabetic properties. Take THAT PETA (fyi: PETA thinks boycotting Canadian maple syrup will somehow affect the Canadian economy to the point where it Canada will be forced to bring an end to the ancient practice of seal slaughter. . . but I digress. Don’t get me starting on this ignorant campaign)

36DD: The Median bra size in the US (New York)

Only 10 years ago it was 36C. Why is the cup size going up, but not the chest size?

Anti-Acne: Foods to Eat and Avoid (AOL Health)

I, unfortunately, can’t eat dairy anymore. I miss the cheese, but not the pimples.

New York School District Bans Baked Goods from Bake Sales (NY Times)

…”we’re supposed to believe that a packaged chocolate-chip cookie is preferable to a homemade one, not on the basis of taste, texture or the quality of the ingredients, but because it came from a factory and has a nutrition label”

Loving Lambics (National Post)

This has nothing to do with health, I just  read it and started craving some Belgian Kriek.

Dangers of Indoor Tanning (AOL Health)

This article fails to address the real danger of indoor tanning: the embarrassment on your dumbfounded face when asked where you spent your winter vacation.

Lifestyle Changes Can Slash Cancer Rates (Healthzone.ca)

Exercise, eat your produce, and stay away from processed garbage. Easy enough.

day 53: health news

Here are a collection of my favourite health news stories recently:

6 natural remedies that really work (from msnbc)
Lemon balm for the mind, Onion for prevention, Cayenne for pain, Plaintain for skin, Parsley for UTIs, and Hawthorn for the heart.

7 Foods That Help You Lose Weight (from That’s Fit)
How oats, eggs, skim milk, cinnamon, apples, and almonds help aid weight loss.

Why food combining makes sense (from That’s Fit Canada)
Exploring how improper food combining can lead to gas, upset stomach, heartburn or diarrhea.

Pre-run dynamic stretching has no negative impact on performance (from the Globe and Mail)
Why dynamic stretching is better than static stretching before your run.

MSG: the silent killer (from Huff Post Living)
Explains how MSG overexcites your cells to the point of damage or death and can cause brain damage.

Shattering the Meat Myth (from Crazy Sexy Life)
Learn why you are a natural born herbivore.