A couple of Christmases ago, one of my nephews, Treowe (he was about 9 at the time), was given a book. The book was about the human body. It was written for his age group, in simple terms. If I remember rightly it had some diagrams that showed our anatomy in detail. What struck me about the book and why I still remember it to this day, is the fact that I actually learned something from it...
27/10: High Fructose Corn Suck Up
Pitiful as it may seem, I too find myself gazing at the box Tuesday nights to the inadequate entertainments of Boston Legal. This inane soap opera continues to surprise me as we follow the ridicules exploits of the unlikely partners and associates of this fictitious Boston law firm.
27/08: Obesity - Is It The New Fat?
And Fat The New Regular Size?
As my 60th gets closer and closer I have become increasingly more aware of how my mere 34 inch waistline droops over my pants-belt, and I fondly remember days long gone when the abs were a little more defined.
As an Australian who has lived in New York for the past 5 years, I find myself surrounded by over-fed, overweight aging Americans, and it is not at all what I wish to become. The American bit is okay, it's the over-feed, overweight thing that I fear...
As my 60th gets closer and closer I have become increasingly more aware of how my mere 34 inch waistline droops over my pants-belt, and I fondly remember days long gone when the abs were a little more defined.
As an Australian who has lived in New York for the past 5 years, I find myself surrounded by over-fed, overweight aging Americans, and it is not at all what I wish to become. The American bit is okay, it's the over-feed, overweight thing that I fear...
14/08: Countdown To The Super Five
Want to know the countdown to the five super foods? Take a look at Five Foods for Better Health, brought to you by LifetimeTV.Com > Diet & Helalth:
Five Foods for Better Health
Want to look great and live longer? The real secret can be found in the foods you eat. Nutritionist Bonnie Taub-Dix finds five foods that will help prevent disease and make us look and feel great...
Can you guess what they are? Okay, I'll spoil the surprise! First up, which really should be no surprise, is Salad! Second, Soy. Third, fish. Four is bread. And Five, yep, you guessed it, blueberries! As for the rest of details of why and how, check out:
www.lifetimetv.com/reallife/health/features/five_foods
Five Foods for Better Health
Want to look great and live longer? The real secret can be found in the foods you eat. Nutritionist Bonnie Taub-Dix finds five foods that will help prevent disease and make us look and feel great...
Can you guess what they are? Okay, I'll spoil the surprise! First up, which really should be no surprise, is Salad! Second, Soy. Third, fish. Four is bread. And Five, yep, you guessed it, blueberries! As for the rest of details of why and how, check out:
www.lifetimetv.com/reallife/health/features/five_foods
20/07: Keep It Fresh
Not all vegetables can be eaten raw so it is safe to say to have a healthy balanced diet you can not live on salads alone unless some of the salads have cooked ingredients...
One-Third of American Diet is Junk Food and Soft Drinks
An alarming new study published in the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis reveals that Americans are getting nearly one-third of their calories from junk foods: soft drinks, sweets, desserts, alcoholic beverages, and salty snacks. It explains why obesity is rampant, diabetes is epidemic, and chronic disease is skyrocketing: we are a nation of people who are simultaneously overfed and malnourished. In other words, we're getting plenty of calories, but very little nutrition…
www.newstarget.com
Japan's Junk-Food Obsession
American fast-food franchises are quite literally everywhere in Japan, and have inspired a slew of home-grown imitators…
www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint
Kids Get Diet of Junk Food Commercials
(CBS/AP) In a child's buffet of food commercials, more than 40 percent of the dishes are candy, snacks and fast food. Nowhere to be found: fresh fruit, vegetables, poultry or seafood. For years, health officials have warned that kids were being inundated with commercials about not-so-healthy foods. Now, researchers have put numbers to those warnings in the largest-ever study of commercials aimed at children...
www.cbsnews.com/stories
An alarming new study published in the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis reveals that Americans are getting nearly one-third of their calories from junk foods: soft drinks, sweets, desserts, alcoholic beverages, and salty snacks. It explains why obesity is rampant, diabetes is epidemic, and chronic disease is skyrocketing: we are a nation of people who are simultaneously overfed and malnourished. In other words, we're getting plenty of calories, but very little nutrition…
www.newstarget.com
Japan's Junk-Food Obsession
American fast-food franchises are quite literally everywhere in Japan, and have inspired a slew of home-grown imitators…
www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint
Kids Get Diet of Junk Food Commercials
(CBS/AP) In a child's buffet of food commercials, more than 40 percent of the dishes are candy, snacks and fast food. Nowhere to be found: fresh fruit, vegetables, poultry or seafood. For years, health officials have warned that kids were being inundated with commercials about not-so-healthy foods. Now, researchers have put numbers to those warnings in the largest-ever study of commercials aimed at children...
www.cbsnews.com/stories
