Tag: health
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How Hospitals Kill Our Loved Ones And Conceal It
Will your loved ones be safe and well-cared for in the hospital? Food Revolution Summit Speaker, David Katz, MD, reveals what really happens within our healthcare system, and why it’s important for you to take action to protect your friends and family.
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This is the #1 Dietary Risk Factor for Death in the U.S.
Learn an easy way to live longer and save money by making a daily change in your diet. The Global Burden of Disease Study, published in 2012, is the most comprehensive and systematic analysis of causes of death undertaken to date, involving nearly 500 researchers from more than 300 institutions in 50 countries, and starting…
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8 Pink Foods that Fight Breast Cancer
By Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh • Originally published on GreenMedInfo.com It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, when companies love to showcase pink packaging…but sometimes, what’s inside those packages isn’t so healthy. So we’ve rounded up 8 naturally pink foods that have all been shown to help keep away breast cancer. Always choose organic to avoid pesticides and toxins.…
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Dietician’s Trade Group EXPOSED
Last month, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics held its annual conference (The Food and Nutrition Conference & Expo, also known as FNCE) in my hometown of Houston, Texas. Rather than proudly showcase its sponsors and how they are marketing their products to our nation’s health care professionals, a photography ban was implemented for the first time…
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The Neuroscience of Why Gratitude Makes Us Healthier
Our world is pretty messed up. With all the violence, pollution and crazy things people do, it would be easy to turn into a grouchy old man without being either elderly or male. There’s certainly no shortage of justification for disappointment and cynicism. But consider this: Negative attitudes are bad for you. And gratitude, it…
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Just How Bad Is McDonald’s Food?
Morgan Spurlock sought to find out in his 2004 documentary Super Size Me just how bad McDonald’s food is. In his film, I was interviewed and spoke about the role McDonald’s food plays in our epidemic of obesity and diabetes. For 30 days, Spurlock ate only McDonald’s food. All of us involved in the film,…
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Beyond the Polarized Debate: Why Does Healthcare Cost So Much?
The debate over healthcare can be intensely polarizing. But whatever role you believe government should play, one fact is indisputable. The cost of health care just keeps on rising. In fact, medical care now represents nearly 20% of total US GDP. Health care spending is so far out of control that not only individuals and…
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Being Fat in America
We can, as a society, be astoundingly cruel to people who are obese. They might be creative, caring and hopeful people, but we don’t see that. Far too often, we see only their weight. What does it say about us that we act as though you can take the measure of a person by the…
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Chocolate’s Startling Health Benefits
The food police may find this hard to take, but eating chocolate can be good for you. People say it causes acne, that you should eat carob instead, that it’s junk food. But these accusations are not only undeserved and inaccurate; they falsely incriminate a delicious food that turns out to have profoundly important healing…
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Remembering Jack LaLanne
“Jack LaLannetowing 70 rowboats with seventy people on board for a mile and a half across Long Beach Harbor, all while handcuffed and with his feet shackled.” Photo from: User:cargoman02 — Jack LaLanne died on January 23, 2011 at the age of 96. He was a mentor to me, as he was to many. He was…
