Owner: Will Clower: Improving The Culture of Health URL:www.willclower.com/blog.html Join Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 15:53:10 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Our weight and health problems require more than molecule micromanagement. We must address a culture that subverts our efforts at control. Site statistics:Click here
Misleading Titles on Vitamin B Supplements 2008-05-24 08:56:00 The title of this article is as follows: Supplements a solution for B6 deficiency, says studyBut the study said nothing of the kind. This is a glaring example of the slippery slope of inferrance. Here is the opening line, which follows the misleading header:"Researchers at Tufts University have suggested inadequate vitamin B6 levels across large sections of the US population, which could be reduce Read more:Misleading
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Food Additives 2008-05-22 11:38:00 From the Center For Science in the Public Interest:Glossary ANTIOXIDANTS retard the oxidation of unsaturated fats and oils, colorings, and flavorings. Oxidation leads to rancidity, flavor changes, and loss of color. Most of those effects are caused by reaction of oxygen in the air with fats. CARCINOGEN is a chemical or other agent that causes cancer in animals or humans.CHELATING AGENTS trap trace
Weight Loss Pills, Products, Potions Finally Falter 2008-05-21 06:09:00 Food and Drink reports that weight loss products are flagging under the weight of consumer skepticism. This is great news for the culture of health, as this points to the "growing up" of the diet consumer. Pills, powders, and other quick fix potions are being disregarded by people who are through with their unfulfilled promises of rapid and easy weight loss.The Food and Drink report whines that th Read more:Weight
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When fat can be healthy 2008-05-20 16:36:00 The New York Times reported today that there are some great ways to cook vegetables to maximize the vitamin content, and that eating them raw was not always as good for you. Here is the full article.But the most interesting aspect was in an afterthought at the bottom of the article, concerning the problem of getting kids to eat their vegetables:What accompanies the vegetables can also be important Read more:healthy
Baby Food For Parents 2008-05-19 05:50:00 It is a catch-22. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.In this article in the New York Times, we hear the concerns of parents who want to buy the best formula for their babies, but end up giving them something that may be bad for them later.The infant formula, Similac, has the words "organic" right on the label, and so is becoming incredibly popular. Parents
pick that one because they don't hav
Doctors Dissing Dairy Debatable 2008-05-18 11:12:00 Our culture of health can be so misleading, especially when we hear reasonable.This woman is Amy Lanou, who co-authored this article dissing the prospective role of dairy in diet . If you read the release, you'll see that they make it seem like she is an academic who is helping Dr. Barnard on their dairy research project.However, she is actually a part of the same group -- the Physicians Committee Read more:Doctors
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While You're At It .... 2005-04-06 15:55:00 We're so excited to be running this campaign to help combat childhood obesity. This pilot program will be expanded each year until childhood obesity (now at a shameful 15% nationwide) is reduced to 5%.If you are in need of losing weight, or know someone you can sponsor, please join us!!For the month of April, I want you to focus on reducing the faux foods in our life. This is such a perfect time t
Getting Fat on High Fructose Corn Syrup 2005-03-02 10:21:00 Regarding High Fructose Corn Syrup.“The digestion, absorption, and metabolism of fructose … favors de novo lipogenesis [fat creation].” “In mammals, fructose is known to be able to raise plasma triacylglycerol concentrations significantly; consequently, this may induce obesity.”Horm Metab Res. 2005 Jan;37(1):32-5.“A high flux of fructose to the liver, the main organ capable of metaboli
The Gastro-Physics of Dietary Anti-Matter 2004-10-14 16:49:00 "People watch," next time you’re in the grocery line. There’s always someone with carts that bulge with every conceivable kind of diet food. Flats of turkey bacon prop listlessly against the fat free half & half and Olestra cookies. At first glance, this is clearly someone who is completely health conscious, diet minded, and watching what they eat.
But peek beneath the basket to the lower rac Read more:Physics
History of the Oktoberfest 2004-10-11 13:18:00 The Royal Wedding12th October 1810
Crown Prince Ludwig, later to become King Ludwig I, was married to Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen on 12th October 1810.
The citizens of Munich were invited to attend the festivities held on the fields in front of the city gates to celebrate the happy royal event. The fields have been named Theresienwiese ("Theresa's fields") in honor of the Crown Pri Read more:History
Dietary Weapons of Mass Distraction (WMD) 2004-10-07 10:02:00
As hoards of low-carb proponents invade the nutritional landscape, the increasingly tired low-fat guard seems to be giving way before their steady march and drumbeat.
This invasion is a preemptive strike to find and remove the stockpiled food molecules that could be used to attack your health and explode your weight. Low-carb campaign hawks insist they are out there, ready to be launched against Read more:Weapons
Politics versus Pate: Arnold Must Decide 2004-09-29 17:18:00 The California Conundrum
The California Assembly and Senate passed S.B. 1520 - sponsored by Senate president John Burton (D-San Francisco) - to ban California fois gras by 2012, and to prohibit the sale of the products.
Animal advocates have long argued that the production of pate de foie gras - involving the feeding of ducks and geese to swell their livers up to 10 times their normal size -- am Read more:versus
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Losing Weight Like You Eat Your Ice Cream 2004-09-29 06:54:00 “Life is like a box of chocolates,” drawled Forrest Gump.
Metaphors are great. Writers use them all the time because, simply put, they get your attention and really drive a point home.
That’s because life and a box of chocolates have as much in common as French Toast for breakfast and a French Toast to your health.
But you know a punch line is coming to connect the dots and relate two red Read more:Weight
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Urban Sprawl is unhealthy 2004-09-28 07:32:00 Urban sprawl leads to fat sprawl.
Feel like you're own fat is sprawling out of control?
There may be a link between your belly bulge and urban sprawl.
Read the whole story.
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Tempest in a tea cup, Wisdom in a sake cup 2004-09-22 09:13:00
What an oxymoron the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has turned out to be. This vegan organization has one colossal ax to grind with their archrival, Darth Atkins. This is an old score that they’ve unfairly flung in front of the public before, all in the effort to squash the low carb idea and its adherents.
The first time was when Robert Atkins suffered his fatal accident, a cran Read more:Tempest
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Surviving September 2004-09-10 10:40:00 With summer completed and school back in session, it’ll be time to settle back into another fall routine. And, even though the flexible schedules of summer have gone, this is actually a very good thing for your weight and health.
In the summer, schedules can be hectic, haphazard, jumbled. This plays havoc with your weight control efforts because you end up eating on the run, at odd times duri Read more:Surviving
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A Martian Anthropologist Takes A Look At Our Food 2004-08-24 10:13:00 A Martian
Anthropologist Takes A Look At Our Food
We go to the store and turn on the television to be confronted by the most amazing shades of neon, and a circus of novelty products – all of which are sold in the food section of every local grocery store.
But we have to ask ourselves a very basic question: are these products even food at all? Never before has humanity had to think about this.
Beer, Chocolate, and Other Forbidden Health Foods 2004-08-17 16:17:00 Beer, Chocolate
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What if someone discovered a substance that "significantly inhibited arteriosclerosis"? You might expect that it would soon be advised as a treatment.
Furthermore, what if this same substance had "antioxidant quality clearly superior to that of vitamin antioxidants and to that of the phenol ingredients, suggesting synergism among the antioxidant
Sound-bite Science 2004-08-10 10:03:00 Sound-bite Science
“The Carb-Cancer Link”! Now there's a headline that gets your attention, and so does a recent study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. This article was used to confirm our newest darling diet fad, by stating that those carbs really are bad and can even cause breast cancer – one more reason to hop on the float, and ride along with the parade.
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Legal Deference Is Bad Medicine 2004-08-04 10:36:00 FDA legal deference is bad medicine
Janssen Pharmaceutica Products never hid damaging results, they “minimized potentially fatal safety risks and made misleading claims about the drug,” according to a recent report in the New York Times. The product in question, Risperdal, is given to more than 10 million people worldwide. It was not until a doctor asserted that children could be hurt or kill Read more:Medicine
USDA List 2004-07-19 16:26:00 The USDA just released a great study showing the top 20 food sources of anti-oxidants.
The majority of these were on the "to be avoided" list for low carb diets.
The point is that there are a million ways to lose weight, and not all of them are healthy.
Finding the balance between good health and weight loss is the trick.
Will
Welcome to our Blog!! 2004-07-19 16:23:00 Hello everyone!!
We have a new space for us to think out loud together, rant and rave (with taste!), and give your thoughts on good food and good health.
So reply to these blog lines and keep the conversation going!
Will
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