Archive for August, 2009
Move Over, Kid
Average Video Gamer in America Is 32 Years Old, According to CDC Here’s a question: If I were to ask you what the average age is for people who play video games on a regular basis, what age would you guess? Twelve years old? 19 years old? Maybe even 25 years old? Try 35 years [...]
Posted: August 30th, 2009 under Video Gaming.
Tags: mental health, video games, video games health effects
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No Matter How You Slice It…
Ground Beef More Likely to Contain Salmonella than Whole Cuts While the food on our dinner plates tonight may all have the same destination – our stomachs – how it was packaged before hitting our plates may affect whether or not it arrives to that destination without incident. As most of you know, I’m not [...]
Posted: August 30th, 2009 under Salmonella.
Tags: beef, food-borne illness, ground beef
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Shining the Light on Brown Fat
British Study Says Obesity May Be Influenced By Daylight The last time brown fat was news, I predicted it’d be back in the health headlines when the sleigh bells were a jingling, ring-ting-a-tingling. Consider it an early Christmas gift. Back in April, the last time I talked about brown fat, a study was published in [...]
Posted: August 30th, 2009 under Obesity.
Tags: brown fat, brown fat and obesity, brown fat in humans, daylight, fat deposits
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Pomegranate Prevention
Study Says the Seeded Apple May Help Prevent Obesity, Diabetes For me, the month of August is one of the more sad times of the year. It’s a month of endings: The summer’s last hurrah, the end of balmy weather, and final reminiscences at the family get-together. On the other hand, August can be a [...]
Posted: August 30th, 2009 under Diabetes, Obesity, Pomegranate.
Tags: pomegranates, pomegranates antioxidants, pomegranates nutrition
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Watermelon Wonder
Refueling Your Body…and Your Car? So we know that watermelon can fuel your own personal sex engine, but could it also fuel your car’s engine engine? It may sound far-fetched, the notion of using a food to serve as automobile fuel, but it’s at the very least plausible, especially when one considers the amount of [...]
Posted: August 30th, 2009 under Renewable Resources, watermelon.
Tags: automobile fuel, ethanol, renewable resource, watermelon
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Liking Lycopene
Researchers Say Lycopene Stimulates Greater Blood Flow Every rule has its exceptions. For example, nine times out of 10, I’d recommend your eating vegetables raw rather than cooked. That’s because cooked vegetables lack the nutritional might that raw vegetables do, as the heating process knocks out a fair amount of fiber and a vast amount [...]
Posted: August 16th, 2009 under antioxidants, Atherosclerosis.
Tags: cooked tomatoes, improve blood flow, lycopene, tomatoe sauce, tomatoes
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An Artificial “Win” for Artificial Sweeteners
Latest “Pro Artificial” Study Naturally Misses the Mark A new study says that artificial sweeteners like Splenda and Sweet & Low don’t pose the health risks that people like me and others suggest. Could natural health advocates like me have been wrong all along? Let’s investigate, shall we? An Italian study recently published in the [...]
Posted: August 15th, 2009 under Artificial Sweeteners, Cancer.
Tags: Aspartame, saccharin
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In Memory of Anthony Rizzo
Unfortunately, my friends and I lost someone close to us on August 6th, 2009. His name was Anthony Rizzo. He was just 30 years old. Here’s my message to Anthony: Riz, we had many good times together and we had many laughs. I will never forget this and your memory will continue to live on. [...]
Posted: August 9th, 2009 under Dedication.
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Boning Up on Green Tea
Study: Green Tea Compounds Build Bones AND Prevents Bone Loss I’m no Wall Street tycoon or stockbroker, but if you have any money in the stock market, you might want to diversify your portfolio by investing in green tea. Every week there seems to be a new study out about its array of health benefits, [...]
Posted: August 9th, 2009 under Green Tea, osteoporosis.
Tags: bone loss, epigallocatechin, Green Tea, green tea and bones
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The Anthocyanin Anthology
Chronicling the Assortment of Anthocyanin Benefits Anthocyanins – the phytochemical compound found in brightly colored vegetables – are so health-promoting, so ubiquitous in their disease prevention, there ought to be an anthocyanin anthology. As documented here, anthocyanins help prevent cancer cell growth. And as documented here, the anthocyanins in red cabbage helps prevent Alzheimer’s and [...]
Posted: August 9th, 2009 under Cancer, Green Tea.
Tags: anthocyanins, berries, cherries, eggplant, grapes, improve cholesterol, improve cholesterol levels, phytochemicals
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