A Diet that Fits Your Genes The age of one-size-fits-all nutritional advice is coming to a close, thanks to the surging field of nutrigenomics. Soon, individual decisions about whether to focus on Mediterranean-style dining, low-fat foods or a salt-free diet will get easier as we learn more about our genetic makeup and how it interacts with what we eat. Consider a study published in the September 2013 issue of Diabetes Care. It found that in a group of people who carried a particular genetic risk for diabetes, and an associated higher risk of stroke, eating a Mediterranean diet negated their increased risk of stroke. Conducted in Spain with more than 7,000 participants ages 55 to 80, the five-year study demonstrated that people who carried two copies of the genetic mutation for diabetes and who followed a low-fat diet were almost three times as likely to have a stroke as those who carried one or no copies of the mutation. Tufts Now: You’ve been examining the link between genes and diet for years. M.E.
EVOO isn’t even made of olives?! « Shoestring Austin The Austin Chronicle published a disturbing article last week, noting that most American-made EVOO (that’s extra-virgin olive oil, to those not in the RR loop) isn’t even made of olives. What the hell?! Is it REALLY extra virgin? Hell, is it even OLIVE OIL?! (photo via Giangrandi Gourmet) Apparently, since about 98% of EVOO is imported, there’s actually no regulation in the U.S. concerning the labels “extra virgin,” let alone “olive oil.” If that doesn’t make you angry, it should. Luckily, the article isn’t just doom and gloom. You can also consult the website Truth In Olive Oil to find purveyors of chemically-tested, totally legit EVOO in all 50 states. I hope this article is forwarded widely so that consumers across the U.S. will realize that what’s written on the bottle may not be what you’re really getting—and that has got to stop. Tags: Austin Chronicle, EVOO, fake EVOO, olive oil, Truth in Olive Oil
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Retail Food Protection > Growing Sprouts in Retail Food Establishment - CFP Issues 02-III-01 and 04-III-012 See more Food Safety Information Concerning Sprouts. See all Retail Food Protection Regulations, Codes & Code Interpretations . December 2004 Fresh produce is an important addition to a healthy diet, however, some produce, including sprouts, the germinating form of seeds and beans, have been implicated in foodborne illness. Sprouts may include alfalfa, clover, sunflower, broccoli, mustard, radish, garlic, dill and pumpkin as well as mung, kidney, pinto, navy, soy beans and wheat berries (wheat grass). Sprouts are produced by placing the seed in a warm, humid environment for approximately 3-7 days for germination and growth, depending on the type of seed chosen. Contamination of seeds appears to be sporadic and usually at low levels. Foodborne outbreaks associated with sprouts have identified Escherichia coli O157:H7, various Salmonella serotypes and Bacillus cereus as the common causative agents. Since 1996, raw sprouts have been increasingly implicated in foodborne outbreaks.
Nearly all conventional food crops grown with fluoride-laced water, then sprayed with more fluoride Ethan A. Huff Prisonplanet.com Sept 10, 2012 The average American today is exposed to a whole lot more fluoride than he or she is probably aware. Conventional produce, it turns out, is one of the most prevalent sources of fluoride exposure besides fluoridated water, as conventional crops are not only irrigated with fluoride-laced water in many cases, but also sprayed with pesticide and herbicide chemicals that have been blended with fluoride, and later processed once again with fluoridated water. This fact may come as a surprise to many who have bought into the idea that eating more fresh produce is automatically beneficial for health, regardless of how that produce was grown. Thinking that they are doing their bodies a favor, millions of Americans have incorporated conventional fruits and vegetables into their everyday diets, not realizing that the resulting cumulative effect of fluoride exposure from these foods could be harming their health. According to the U.S. Print this page.
Even Alopaths Concur A Simple Diet for Cancer that Works In today's world, knowing the difference between what to eat and more importantly, what not to eat, can be truly overwhelming for many of us with the plethora of food options readily available. For example, at some point in their lives, many people have been told to simply avoid eating meat. It is a personal choice that some people make for themselves, however, misguided information regarding the possible benefits of natural meats shouldn't be one of those reasons to avoid consuming meat. With over a decade of providing cancer nutrition for our patients, we are eager to help you put it all together in order to help you create the best possible diet for winning against cancer. Below are some of the powerful ideas that you will need to be successful in your fight against what we refer to as "The Big Killers," which are: cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Becoming Food-Smart For Cancer and Chronic Disease Cancer loves sugar. Healthy Living in a Nutshell
Shrimp's Dirty Secrets: Why America's Favorite Seafood Is a Health and Environmental Nightmare January 24, 2010 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Americans love their shrimp. In his book, Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood, Taras Grescoe paints a repulsive picture of how shrimp are farmed in one region of India. Upon arrival in the U.S., few if any, are inspected by the FDA, and when researchers have examined imported ready-to-eat shrimp, they found 162 separate species of bacteria with resistance to 10 different antibiotics. Understanding the shrimp that supplies our nation's voracious appetite is quite complex. A more responsible farming system involves closed, inland ponds that use their wastewater for agricultural irrigation instead of allowing it to pollute oceans or other waterways. One more consideration, even in these cleaner systems, is the wild fish used to feed farmed shrimp.
The secret history of your favourite hamburger Thanks to the brave and compassionate souls who go undercover into slaughterhouses with hidden cameras, the truth about horrific cruelty to animals is no longer being hidden from the public eye. The latest video, released by Compassion Over Killing (COK) on August 21, shows cows being routinely suffocated, electrically shocked and sprayed with hot water by workers at the Central Valley Meat Company (CVM), a slaughterhouse in Hanford, California. The horrific footage also shows workers standing on cows’ mouths and nostrils after shooting them multiple times. Tens of thousands of dairy cows that are no longer economically viable as milk producers for the dairy industry end up at CVM. The video documents the final hours of pain and suffering they face before they are slaughtered and their bodies are dismembered for the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National School Lunch Programme and the popular In-N-Out Burger, a California-based hamburger chain.
Miami couple forced to rip out 17-year-old veggie garden in their front yard Fruit, flowers, and flamingos are fine in a Miami Shores front yard, but a veggie garden is “inconsistent with the city’s aesthetic character.” That’s why Hermine Ricketts and Tom Carroll were ordered to ax the vegetable garden they’d had for 17 years or pay a daily $50 fine. (Judging by its reputation for tacky tropical print shirts, I’m not sure how much “aesthetic character” Miami actually has, but whatever, city officials.) Sadly, this is no isolated case. Now The Institute for Justice’s Food Freedom Initiative, which created the video above, is trying to protect Americans’ rights to grow our own food.
Are We Labeling Kids With Mental Disorders When They Could Actually Be Geniuses The Marketing Of Madness is an excellent documentary detailing how the psychiatric drug industry was born and its powerful and profitable partnership with the drug industry, which has turned psychiatry into an $80 billion drug profit center. But is any of it based on real medical science? How valid are the psychiatric diagnoses being handed out? And are the drugs safe? Unfortunately, the evidence is overwhelmingly stacked against psychiatric drugs. What Causes Psychological Distress? Answering this question is the holy grail of psychiatry. Interestingly, we now know that there was good reason why this may have helped men or postmenopausal women. The blanket prescription of drugs for every conceivable psychological hiccup has become the bloodletting theory of the 21stcentury… Of course, in the case of psychiatric drugs, there's tremendous profits to be made by maintaining the status quo and not admitting the error of their ways. The answer is, of course, you can't! Related DVDs
8 Foods Even The Experts Won’t Eat By April McCarthy. Originally published on Preventdisease.com. Food scientists are shedding light on items loaded with toxins and chemicals–and simple swaps for a cleaner diet and supersized health. Experts from different areas of specialty explain why they won’t eat these eight foods. Clean eating means choosing fruits, vegetables, and meats that are raised, grown, and sold with minimal processing. Often they’re organic, and rarely (if ever) should they contain additives. The result is damage to our health, the environment, or both. So we decided to take a fresh look at food through the eyes of the people who spend their lives uncovering what’s safe–or not–to eat. Their answers don’t necessarily make up a “banned foods” list. 1. Fredrick Vom Saal, is an endocrinologist at the University of Missouri who studies bisphenol-A. The problem: The solution: Choose tomatoes in glass bottles (which do not need resin linings), such as the brands Bionaturae and Coluccio. 2. 3. The solution: 4. 5. Dr. 6.
Top 7 Supermarket Foods to Avoid By Emma Sgourakis, Certified Nutritional Therapist In a recent article, seven experts in the fields of both food and the environment (scientists, doctors and farmers) were asked just one simple question: “What foods do you avoid?” Their responses had nothing to do with calories or nutrient-density, but all to do with their insider knowledge on how certain seemingly “healthy” foods that they closely work with are produced and packaged. If the farmer who grows the food won’t eat it himself, then I won’t touch it either. Here’s a summary of the findings. 1. An endocrinologist and expert on the topic of the synthetic oestrogen bisphenol-A (BCA), linked to heart disease and infertility, won’t go near canned tomatoes. 2. For fat cows (and fat people) feed them grain, corn and soy. 3. Another poisonous packaging issue: Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) lines the bags of those popcorn bags, and the heat in the microwave leaches this straight onto your movie munchies. 4. 5. 6. 7. Related Products
Bacillus thuringiensis: Profile of a bacterium - Basic info Apr 4, 2007 Basic info Print Send Bacillus thuringiensis It has been known for over a hundred years that certain common, soil-dwelling bacteria - Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) - have a toxic and deadly effect on insects. The bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is found everywhere – it has been isolated from soil samples, leaf surfaces and insects. The bacterium was first discovered in silkworms in 1901 by a Japanese scientist, who named it Bacillus sotto, although he remained unaware of its special characteristics. Field trials with Bacillus thuringiensis to control the European corn borer were being conducted as early as the late 1920s and in 1938 the first commercial Bt preparation (Sporeine) came onto the market in France. Since the introduction of the first Bt preparations in crop protection, more and more new, previously unknown strains of Bacillus thuringiensis have been identified, each of which affects only certain insect groups. Targeted use How the Bt toxin works