Food, Diet, Nutrition, FDA Health Updates
Coconut Oil: Coconut oil that has been kept at room temperature for a year has been tested for rancidity, and showed no evidence of it
Guidebook to Whole Foods - Foods for Life
Food Coloring: Food colorings that cause severe allergic reactions should be disclosed clearly on labels or possibly banned, a national health-advocacy group is telling the Food and Drug Administration.
Hydrogenated Fat: Modern-day diets high in hydrogenated vegetable oils instead of traditional animal fats are implicated in causing a significant increase in heart disease and cancer.
Organic Food: Ten most important organic foods to eat
Organic Food Under Fire: Report on misinformation in the media in the campaign by big business to discredit the value of organic foods.
Pesticides and aggression: For the past 25 years, tens of millions of Americans in hundreds of cities and towns have been drinking tap water that is contaminated with low levels of insecticides, weed killers, and artificial fertilizer. They not only drink it, they also bathe and shower in it, thus inhaling small quantities of farm chemicals and absorbing them through the skin and through breathing in the vapors.
Saturated Fat: Unsaturated oils, especially polyunsaturates, weaken the immune system's function in ways that are similar to the damage caused by radiation, hormone imbalance, cancer, aging, or viral infections.
Spirulina: Spirulina is one species of single celled plants also known as blue-green algae. Many scientists believe that the microalgea may have been some of the first forms of life that existed on this planet. They contain abundant amounts of B-12, as well as essential fatty acids, vitamins, minerals and vegetable proteins.
Tumor growth diminished by diet: Researchers at the University of Wisconsin report that small concentrations of two compounds from plants we eat suppress the growth of three kinds of human cancer cells in the laboratory |