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More than 1,660,290 new cancer cases are projected to be diagnosed in the US this year, and an estimated 580,350 Americans will die from the disease.¹ Another 600,000 Americans die of heart disease each year.² At present, heart disease is the leading cause of death among both sexes. Read more

A Bee Story
What's The Buzz On Bee's?

"Many people think of bees simply as a summertime nuisance. But these

small and hard-working insects actually make it possible for many of your

favorite foods to reach your table. From apples to almonds to the pumpkin

in our pumpkin pies, we have bees to thank".
-Jennifer Sass, NRDC  Read more

In recent weeks, we’ve learned some very disturbing truths about glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s broad-spectrum herbicide Roundup, which is generously doused on genetically engineered (GE) Roundup Ready crops. Read more

Romaine, collards and parsley — Oh my!
Dark leafy greens are the foods most commonly missing from our diets. Learning to incorporate them into your daily menu is absolutely essential to keeping your body healthy and your immune system strong. Greens purify the blood, improve circulation, boost energy, improve kidney and liver function, and clear up congestion. And let's be honest: After a summer of barbecues, beers and other indulgences, who couldn't use a little liver detox? Read more

A February 2013 study by Oceana, the largest international advocacy group working solely to protect the world’s ocean, reported that seafood fraud is widespread across the U.S. Independent DNA testing confirmed that a whopping one-third of the fish sampled were mislabeled. Read more

Drinking several cups of coffee daily appears to reduce the risk of suicide in men and women by about 50 percent, according to a new study by researchers at theHarvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The study was published online July 2 inThe World Journal of Biological Psychiatry. Read more

As a parent, one of the best gifts you can give your child is a strong nutritional start. The first years of life represent a time of rapid development, during which your child's language, cognitive, social and motor skills are developed.
During the first three years of life, the brain also grows at its fastest rate, and this represents a crucial window of development during which proper nutrition is essential. Read more

CHICAGO -- Don't take the cinnamon challenge. That's the advice from doctors in a new report about a dangerous prank depicted in popular YouTube videos but which has led to hospitalizations and a surge in calls to U.S. poison centers. Read more

Fish has always been the best source for the animal-based omega-3 fats EPA and DHA, but as levels of pollution have increased, this treasure of a food has become less and less viable as a primary source of healthful fats. Read more

More than 3,000 food additives -- preservatives, flavorings, colors and other ingredients -- are added to foods in the United States.
While each of these substances are legal to use in the US, whether or not they are safe for long-term consumption -- by themselves or in combination -- is a different story altogether. Many have been deemed too harmful to use in other countries.Read more

The only part of the pig you don't use is the squeal: so goes the abattoir truism. For slaughterhouses and food processors, this is given added force by the fact that the leftover bits of a carcass – including the intestines and other innards – are often the most profitable.
As the row continues over just how some beef burgers in Britain and Ireland came to contain up to 29 per cent horse DNA, we are all thinking more about precisely what goes into our food. Read more

We're all looking for the new thing to help us become just that little bit healthier this New Year and it seems we could be given a helping hand by the tiny grains of pseudo-cereal that make quinoa the food for fitness in 2013. Read more

Tuesday, October 23, 2012. Men who chow down on flavonoids -- in fruits, vegetables, herbs and tea -- are less likely to get aggressive prostate cancer, U.S. researchers say.

Susan E. Steck, an associate professor at the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina, and colleagues used data from 920 African-American men and 977 European-American men in the North Carolina-Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project who were newly diagnosed with prostate cancer. Read more

People want to maintain a healthy weight, and there are lots of beneficial ways to do it: exercise, whole foods diet and supplementation, proper stress relief, regular sleeping patterns. But a new study has highlighted an ancient ingredient for healthy fat metabolism that is, quite literally, right under our noses—black pepper.Read more

May 17--PORT ARTHUR -- Customers of Kacy Gotte, a coffee barista at Sertinos 24-hours coffee shop in Port Arthur, may be happy to hear that the mysterious black liquid they drink every morning may be good for them. 
"Most of the people that I serve coffee to everyday seem to be happy, healthy people," said Gotte. "It's no wonder that they found out coffee is good for you." Read more

It’s been called the “largest wave of recorded suicides in human history” Indian farmers have been robbed of their livelihoods, causing them to take their own lives in despair. Over the past 16 years, it is estimated that more than a quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide.
Who is responsible for this tragedy? Read more

In Germany, massive resistance to genetically engineered (GE) foods, both among politicians and the general public, has caused chemical giant BASF to close its German biotech division.  European opponents of GE foods are jubilant.  A reported 75 percent of Germans oppose genetically engineered foods, and few politicians are in favor of genetic technology. Read more

Is red meat bad for you? In a word, yes. In this issue, Pan et al describe the outcomes from more than 37 000 men from the Harvard Health Professionals Follow-Up Study and more than 83 000 women from the Harvard Nurses Health Study who were followed up for almost 3 million person - years.  Read more

WASHINGTON—With nearly 1,800 milligrams of sodium—more than some children should eat in an entire day—the Ham, Egg, and Cheese Biscuit has topped a new report ranking the five worst breakfasts served by schools across the country. Read more

Fat-Loaded Recipes from Jamie Oliver, Paula Deen, Guy Fieri Among Worst Offenders

WASHINGTON—Jamie Oliver is on a mission to revolutionize school nutrition, but some recipes in his new cookbook have more fat and cholesterol than many fast-food burgers, doctors say. Jamie Oliver’s Meals in Minutes: A Revolutionary Approach to Cooking Good Food Fast tops the list of the Five Worst Cookbooks of 2011 released by the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). Read more

Bacon has been called the gateway meat, luring vegetarians back to meat. And hot dogs are a staple at many a backyard BBQ.But a new study published in theArchives of Internal Medicine finds that daily consumption of red meat — particularly processed meat — may be riskier than carnivores realize. Read more

No other human activity affects the Earth -- or what we put in our bodies -- so directly. How can we build a system of food production that is fair for the farmer and good for the consumer? Read more...

Don't give up on organic food, our experts urge

A new review of previous research on organic food is getting a lot of media attention for concluding that the published literature "lacks strong evidence" that organic food is significantly more nutritious than conventionally grown food. But news reports covering the findings may be oversimplifying or distorting what the study really found, according to our in-house experts, and consumers shouldn't be misled into believing that there isn't a benefit to paying more for organics, particularly for certain populations. Read more

When McDonald’s and other fast-food chains announced last month that the infamous “pink slime” was no longer being used in their burgers, some thought the ammonium hydroxide-treated beef cuts had disappeared from our food supply once and for all. 
Raw beef. (Jahi Chikwendiu - WASHINGTON POST) But a new report in the Daily tablet newspaper suggests the slime will appear in school lunches this spring — 7 million pounds of it. Read more

The health consequences of eating too much sugar (simple carbohydrates) can be ruinous. And while you need a modicum of carbohydrates in your diet for optimal wellness, consuming them in the right proportions is a key to better health. Read more

Gluten-free is hot these days. There are books and websites, restaurants with gluten free menus, and grocery stores with hundreds of new gluten-free food products on the shelf. Is this a fad, or a reflection of response to a real problem? Read more

To eat the healthiest diet, you have to eat very little meat. But optimal health comes not just from minimizing the meat in your meals; you also have to maximize your consumption of nutrient-rich raw foods. Read more...

The Healthy School Lunch Campaign, sponsored by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), is dedicated to improving the food served to children in schools by educating government and school officials, food service workers, parents, and others about the food choices best able to promote children’s current and long-term health.  Read more...

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Revised 07/2012

Food has a very powerful effect in your body. Diet and nutrition alter your internal terrain and influences genes^1-3. The nutrition in foods affects cancer both directly and indirectly. Some foods kill cancer cells and others promote cancer cell growth. Learning differences between what to eat and what not to eat is essential. Read more...

In a ground-breaking news story, 60 Minutes reports that new research coming out of some of America's most respected institutions is finding that sugar is a toxin that can lead to major chronic diseases such as obesity, heart disease, and cancer. 
This is jolting to people who don't realize that even if they don't add it to their foods, hidden sugar, including high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), is in virtually all processed foods, from yogurts and sauces to breads and sodas. Read more

Mad Cow Disease (the common term for Bovine Spongiform Encepholopathy (BSE) made headlines once again in April 2012, when a dairy cow at a rendering facility inCalifornia was found to have the disease.
BSE, a progressive neurological disorder of cattle that can be transmitted to other species, including humans (in people it's called Cruetzfeldt-Jakob Disease) is a devastating condition that typically leads to progressive dementia and death, often within a year of the onset of symptoms. Read more

At some point, "red meat" became taboo in the nutritional world. If you put good old-fashioned grass-fed, organically-raised meat in a nutrition analyzer, you'd find it's one of the most nutritious foods you can eat.  Still, many people want to believe that all red meat is unhealthy. A new study out of Harvard once again attempts to demonize red meat. Read more

(Reuters Health) - In a study based on 62,000 Danish mothers, the children of those who ate peanuts and tree nuts while pregnant were less likely to develop asthma or allergies than the kids whose mothers shunned nuts.  The results support the recent withdrawal of recommendations that pregnant women should avoid nuts because they might raise a child's risk for allergies to the nuts themselves and for other hypersensitivities like asthma, according to the U.S. and Danish researchers. Read more

In the April 18, 2012 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Korean researchers report that piperine, a pungent compound found in black pepper (Piper nigrum), helps block the formation of new fat cells, a process known as adipogenesis. Read more

When a new beverage comes out advertising "60% less sugar—drink it to believe it"—the challenge is on. Same taste; fewer calories to your waist? Sounds good, doesn't it? 
But before you throw that Pepsi Next into your grocery cart, Fooducate.comⁱsuggests you complete the challenge by reading the ingredient label. Read more