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Health, Videos & Documentaries, Jun 15th, 2012,
A diet that encourages you to eat lots of meat, eggs and butter has been linked to cardio-vascular disease, by increasing blood cholesterol. This may not sound surprising to those of us who were brought up with the conventional wisdom that saturated fats and red meat are bad for you, specifically bad for your heart. However, being brought up under conventional popular ideas of nutrition does not an expert make. Neither does following faddish diets that let you eat these somewhat taboo foods at the expense of other, more conventional dishes. The Atkins diet, popularized in the 1990s, paints carbohydrates…
Tags: atkins diet, cholesterol, fat, heart disease, low-carb
Health, Pollution, Videos & Documentaries, Jan 18th, 2012,
It may sound like a convenient excuse: it’s not my fault I’m fat, it’s all those common, everyday chemicals I unwittingly ingest through no fault of my own. That and all the burgers, fries and milkshakes I eat on a daily basis. But certain environmental, hormone-altering chemicals, which researchers call ‘obesogens’, may contribute to dramatic weight gain – especially when a fetus is exposed to them in the womb. If obesogens do cause obesity, what about fatty foods? Professor Bruce Blumberg of the University of California believes that both junk food and common environmental chemicals cause obesity, sometimes in tandem….
Tags: chemicals, environmental, fat, obesity, obesogens
Health, Aug 17th, 2010,
The diet of the West, high in animal products, fat, salt and sugar, is increasingly associated with wealth and development. The growing middle and upper classes in China are causing meat consumption to skyrocket in that country. Those with more disposable income in characteristically poor places buy more imported, packaged and processed foods, which all tend to be higher in salt, sugar and fat. Meat becomes more of a staple than a luxury. In contrast, the poor of the developing world generally eat traditional diets that are high in fruit and vegetables. In the West it’s the opposite. The cheapest…
Tags: Africa, allergies, bacteria, children, developing, diet, disease, European, fat, food, guy, heath, meat, microbial, poor, rich, salt, study, sugar, vegetables, Western
