Archive for the ‘Health’ Category
Tuesday, September 29th, 2015
A diet that supports health throughout your life is the foundation of vigorous senior years
The Surprising Facts About What Healthy People Eat to Reach Their 100th Birthday
A long life, enjoyed in good health, is a dream that many seek to realize. Yet while life span has been slowly increasing in developed countries, freedom from illness and disability is, unfortunately, not following the same trend. Researchers found that baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) had higher rates of many chronic diseases than their parents did at each age. Compared to the prior generation, baby boomer risks are at increased risk for:
• Diabetes: by 46%
• Hypertension: by 38%
• High cholesterol: almost 6 times the risk
An international survey of adults 65 or older in eleven industrialized countries found (more…)
Tags: Blue Zones, centenarians, Japanese sweet potato, longevity, Okinawa, whole foods plant-based diet
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Sunday, September 13th, 2015
The Plant-Based Journey will take you on the awesome passage to healthy, sustainable choices
Lani Muelrath Guides You on a Well-Lit Path to Plant-Based Success
You’ve heard the success stories, seen the before-and-after pictures of what a whole foods, plant-based diet can accomplish for your health, appearance, and budget. Perhaps you set out to achieve those rewards for yourself, but got sidetracked wandering around the supermarket with an empty cart, with no idea what to buy for dinner. Or you got a stomach ache from an abrupt change in your habits and decided that plant-based was not for you. Maybe your interest in healthier choices simply got put on a future to-do list as you sped through one rushed day after another.
Now you don’t have to figure out this lifestyle on your own. The Plant-Based Journey is an encouraging, practical, and highly readable trail map for turning your healthy intentions into reality. This book is rich with information, ideas, and simple, inexpensive, and yummy recipes.
Author Lani Muelrath is an experienced teacher and health coach. Her background gives her (more…)
Tags: Lani Muelrath, The Plant-Based Journey, weight loss, whole foods plant-based diet, whole foods plant-based recipes
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Sunday, June 7th, 2015
The documentary PlantPure Nation shows that the truth is a stubborn thing. It doesn’t go away.
Nelson Campbell Directs a Documentary That Can Save Your Life
The film PlantPure Nation offers life-and-death drama in unexpected places: the Kentucky state legislature, a main street in small town North Carolina, and every day dinner tables. With a story that is engaging, suspenseful, and inspiring, this film surfaces both outrage and hope over the power of agribusiness and their political allies.
Director Nelson Campbell is a major actor in his own documentary. The audience catches an intimate look at his family as well: wife Kim, mom Karen, and dad T. Colin Campbell, PhD, co-author with another son, Thomas M. Campbell, MD, of the bestseller The China Study.
When the Kentucky legislature, under heavy pressure from agribusiness lobbyists, fails to authorize a pilot project to demonstrate how a plant-based diet can improve
health and obesity rates for low-income communities, Nelson seizes the chance to (more…)
Tags: Dr. T. Colin Campbell, family farms, Jumpstarts, Karen Campbell, Kim Campbell, Nelson Campbell, Plant Pure Nation, Plant Pure Nation review, PlantPure Nation, PlantPure Nation Foundation, PlantPure Pods, Tom Riner, whole foods plant-based diet
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Monday, May 25th, 2015
The Centers for Disease Control provides this image of one of the roundworms commonly found in fish
Raw Fish and Raw Milk Are Not Healthy
Upbeat myths have boosted the image of raw animal foods, such as sushi, sashimi, and raw dairy products. Claims that these foods are somehow more “natural” and nutrient-rich than after they are cooked promote this raw fad.
Yet uncooked animal foods can be so hazardous that even the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is hardly known for its aggressive protection of public health, warns the public forcefully to watch out. The higher risk of eating such foods includes getting infected with (more…)
Tags: FDA, food poisoning, parasites, raw cheese, raw fish, raw milk, sashimi, sushi, whole foods plant-based diet
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Sunday, May 10th, 2015
Whole soy foods support health in many ways. Credible published research studies do not find health dangers in eating whole soy foods in moderation
The Health Benefits of Soy Are Real, While the Ideas of Danger Are Fantasies
Remember the school lesson about how, in fifteenth century Europe, influential thinkers said it was impossible to sail across the Atlantic Ocean? The governing idea was that the earth was flat, and anyone venturing too far west by boat would fall off the end of the world. Well, experience proved that popular opinion wrong, and we can smile at it today.
Yet in the twenty-first century, many are frightened by an equally silly idea – that soy (more…)
Tags: breast cancer, Dr. Mark Messina, infertility, phytoestrogens, soy, whole foods plant-based diet
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Sunday, March 1st, 2015
Bacon is a food fad, and so a large selection greets shoppers. Yet few know how really dangerous this product is.
A Toxic Chemical Brew Disguised As Something Edible
The dangers of bacon make this food fad a gateway to cancer and early death. Research shows that processed meats, which include bacon, are health disasters. For example:
• Two studies in the US totaling 121,342 participants found each daily serving of processed meats was linked to a 20% increased risk (more…)
Tags: advanced glycation end products, AGEs, bacon, bacon smoke, cancer, Forks Over Knives, HCAs, MRSA, N-nitroso, processed meat
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Friday, January 2nd, 2015
Popular myth states that extracted oils are healthy. The truth is that they contribute to processes that result in inflammation, faster aging, and malignancy
Extracted Oils Are the Most Dangerous
The government, the food industry, even doctors may all bombard you with advice to eat so-called “healthy fats,” in the form of:
• olive oil (for monounsaturated fats)
• other vegetable oils (for polyunsaturated fats)
• fish oil (for long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fats)
But when you start looking closely, you will be faced with an unpleasant surprise. These extracted oils are dangerous in three major ways.
WHAT ARE EXTRACTED OILS?
No whole food is entirely fat. Instead, fat is mixed in with the thousands of other components of the food, including proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and (if it’s a plant) protective phytochemicals that work as antioxidants.
Extracted oils are fats that are forced out of this whole food matrix and put into a capsule, bottle, or tub. Liquid vegetable oils, margarine, and fish oil are all examples of extracted oils.
WHAT FATS DO YOU NEED?
There are two kinds of fats you do need to get (more…)
Tags: aging, cancer, extracted oils, fish oil, free radicals, oil oil, omega-3 fatty acids, omega-6 fatty acids, oxidation, polyunsaturated oil, weight loss
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Monday, November 24th, 2014
You can pay a lot of money for turkey labeled as “organic” or “sustainable,” but there is no evidence this reduces the health risks of eating poultry
Chicken and Turkey Are Health Risks All Year Long
Turkeys are the routine centerpiece of many holiday meals, while chickens are a common “main course” for everyday dinners. Yet when you look closely at poultry, the health dangers may surprise you, and (more…)
Tags: cancer, chicken, dangers of poultry, diabetes, getting healthy, lose weight, Plant-based nutrition, Thanksgiving, turkey, weight loss, whole foods plant-based diet
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Saturday, September 27th, 2014
The Forks Over Knives Plan provides clear, practical guidance on how to achieve an enjoyable transition to a whole foods, plant based lifestyle
The Forks Over Knives Plan Keeps You On Track For Success
What if you are dissatisfied with your health? Maybe you are overweight, low in energy, plagued with headaches or sinusitis or chronic pain, on multiple drugs, or spending way too much money on the medical profession.
Then you find out your suffering and expense aren’t necessary. Hope glimmers for a real change. Maybe you saw the movie Forks Over Knives, or observed a friend regain her health on a whole foods, plant based diet, or read a science-based book on plant-based nutrition.
Here’s your problem. You are not sure how to get from where you are to where you want to be. The change may seem daunting and the food unfamiliar. You see others reshaping their meals overnight, while you are (more…)
Tags: Dr. Alona Pulde, Dr. Matt Lederman, Forks Over Knives, plant-based lifestyle, The Forks Over Knives Plan, transition plan, whole foods
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Saturday, September 20th, 2014
Dustin Rudolph is a pharmacist working to empower you to get healthy with diet, something that is highly unlikely just by taking medications that don’t get to the root of your illness
Dustin Rudolph Teaches You the Basic Principles of Lifelong Health
Dustin Rudolph is a pharmacist who wants to see his patients regain their health and become free of medications. He wrote The Empty Medicine Cabinet: The Pharmacist’s Guide to the Hidden Danger of Drugs and the Healing Powers of Food to help people looking for elusive answers about why they are sick. His book will show you a totally different approach to chronic illness – an approach that is not based on the pills, procedures, and surgery of conventional medicine.
The Empty Medicine Cabinet starts with idyllic memories of Dustin’s summers on his much-adored grandfather’s small farm in Montana. His grandfather lived what many would consider (more…)
Tags: chronic illness, Dustin Rudolph, freedom from medication, The Empty Medicine Cabinet, whole foods plant-based diet
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