Nutrition

Healthy Lifestyle's Impact on Your Genes

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 07.12.2008 | Living

Read More: How to Prevent Prostate Cancer, Lifestyle, Epigenetics, Prostate Cancer, Health, Nutrition, Dr. Dean Ornish, Genetics, Diet, Gene Expression, Living News

When a Western doctor sticks a tongue depressor down your throat and tells you to say; "Ahhh," he's using one of the five senses to observe throat red...

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The Mommy Wars and Picky Eaters

Donna Fish | Posted 07.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Picky Eaters, Worries, Childhood Nutrition, Healthy Thriving Kids, Parenting, Nutrition, Living News

Is it possible that we need to look at our own anxiety and really see the needs of our kids as separate from our needs?

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A Multi-Pronged Approach to Brain Health

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 06.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Neuroplasticity, Neuroscience, Baby Boomers, Cognitive Science, Alzheimers, Mental Health, Brain, Exercise, Nutrition, Ted Kennedy Brain Tumor, Brain Fitness, Living News

I interviewed Dr. Larry McCleary, the former acting Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Denver Children's Hospital about how to nourish our brains.

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Prostitution, the Law of Averages and Nutrition

Dr. Jonny Bowden | Posted 06.23.2008 | Living

Read More: Mercury, Prostitution, Hormone Replacement, Autism, The Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Vegetarianism, Nutrition, Living News

The reaction in the press to Showtime's The Secret Diary of A Call Girl is even more interesting than the program itself. In case you missed it, wha...

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Two Uncomplicated Reasons to Choose Organic Eggs and Milk

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 06.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Eggs, Chickens, Organic Milk, Organic Food, Nutrition, Health, Food, Organic, Green News

If you are thinking about making the switch to organic food, eggs and milk are a good place to start, for two fairly simple reasons.

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Conscious Eating, Okay, But Where (On Earth) Do You Get Your Protein?

Kathy Freston | Posted 05.31.2008 | Living

Read More: Protein, Kathy Freston, Nutrition, Conscious Eating, Living News

When I tell people I'm a vegan, the most popular question inevitably follows: "But, how do you get enough protein?" There it is again, the meat industry's most potent weapon against vegetarianism -- the protein myth.

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Tales From The Food Couch: You are Not Failing Your Diet, Your Diet is Failing YOU

Donna Fish | Posted 05.12.2008 | Home

Read More: Fitness, The Today Show, Maintaining Weight Loss, Diet, Nutrition, Home News

Now that is what we like to hear, right?! It's not our fault! We knew it secretly, anyway, right? Would that it were that simple. Hmmm. Today I...

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I Hate Special K

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 05.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Ads, Diets, Swimsuit, Obesity Crisis, Bikini, You vs. The Swimsuit, Health, Nutrition, Body Image, Diabetes, Special K, Cereal, Living News

Yes, I hate the date-rape drug but I am actually talking about the cereal this time. How can a lowly box of spurious nutrition engender such hatred? Easy.

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Why Am I Feeling Crabby on My Lovely Vacation?

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 03.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Energy, Daily Life, Health, Nutrition, Psychology, Eating, Mood, Diet, Happiness, Family, Living News

I'm away with my family and my in-laws on vacation. We do this every spring, and each time we do it, despite the fact that this place is lovely, I see...

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Eating Outside the Box

Donna Fish | Posted 03.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Nutrition, Kids Diet, Cognitive/Behavioral Tools, Diet, Home News

What on earth does she mean by that, you are wondering to yourself. I know, I know, There are a million diet tips out there, what could this one be?! ...

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In Search of Teachers, Not Presidents

Derek Beres | Posted 03.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Michael Pollan, Colin Campbell, Nutrition, Protein, Environment, Eating Locally, Environmentalism, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Cycle, Diabetes, The Food Revolution, John Robbins, The China Study, Health Care, 2008 Election, Living News

Can you imagine a candidate stepping up on the next debate to declare that we can begin to heal ourselves through a whole foods, plant-based diet?

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Nutrition vs. Food: Michael Pollan and His Eater's Manifesto

Jon Wiener | Posted 02.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Michael Pollan, Pomegranite Juice, Pom, Nutrition, Food, Eating, In Defense of Food, Diet, Pollan Food, Living News

"The problem is that every step of additional processing makes the food less nutritious," he replied. "So they add lots of nutrients back in to the processing so they can make health claims. But they only add what they know is missing.

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Nutrition vs. Food: Michael Pollan and His Eater's Manifesto

Posted 02.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Pom, Pomegranite Juice, Michael Pollan, Nutrition, Food, Eating, In Defense of Food, Diet, Pollan Food, Home News

"The problem is that every step of additional processing makes the food less nutritious," Pollan told me. "So they add lots of nutrients back in to the processing so they can make health claims. But they only add what they know is missing.

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Vitamin D: If You Can't Get It From Sun, Take The Pill

Dr. Soram Khalsa | Posted 02.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Vitman D Deficiency, Sunlight, Sun, Nutrition, Vitamin D, Living News

If you live north of 37 degrees latitude (approximately a line drawn horizontally connecting Norfolk, VA to San Francisco, CA) sunlight is not sufficient to create Vitamin D in your skin in the winter months, even if you are sitting in the sun in a bathing suit on a warm January day!

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Martyring Our Kids on the McAltar

Kerry Trueman | Posted 01.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Healthy Food, Marion Nestle, Branding, Kids and Poor Nutrition, Nutrition, Living News

Companies have spent billions of dollars figuring out how to manipulate us, and they've concluded that the best way herd them to the cash registers is to rope 'em in while they're young.

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