Weight Weight, I Can’t Remember! How Being Overweight May Affect Memory
via Amanda MacMillan @ Time Health Want to stay sharp well into old age? Keep an eye on your waistline, suggests a recent study from the University of Arizona. Having a higher body mass index (BMI) can negatively impact brain functioning in older adults, researchers say, and there’s evidence...
The Benefits of Olive Oil and How To Get Them
Extra virgin olive oil douses the inflammation that leads to chronic health conditions like heart disease. The polyphenol-rich extra virgin olive oil also limits insulin resistance, inflammation and oxidative stress, preventing liver disease progression as well. It’s a healthy oil that you can use as an every day ‘add’...
Guacamole
Guacamole can be enjoyed in so many different ways and it’s so easy to make. You’ll Need 2 avocados 1/3 cup chopped red onion 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon lemon juice or lime juice 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro Chili powder to taste – optional...
How Exercise Can Increase Metabolism By Turning White Fat Into Brown
Exercise may aid in weight control and help to fend off diabetes by improving the ability of fat cells to burn calories, a new study reports. It may do this in part by boosting levels of a hormone called irisin, which is produced during exercise and which may help...
Quick Video: The Best Foods Are Pedestrian Foods. But What Does That Even Mean?
The healthiest foods on Earth are the simple ones. You can look harder, you can look longer for the latest shiny nutritional distraction that purports some magical mystery tour to thinner thighs in thirty days or whatever, but the best foods for the best health have been there all along. They...
No, You Can’t Prevent All Cancers
My wife’s diagnosis taught me a lot about the disease October, as you certainly know, is Breast Cancer awareness month. Football players are wearing pink, little ribbons show up on lapels, and a slew of articles will no doubt arise about preventing cancer. But like millions of people each...
The Rock Star Duet of Super Foods
If super foods were in a band, the Lennon-McCartney award that I just made up for absolute nutritional rock stars would go to cocoa and olive oil. This study of studies reviewed practically every research experiment on earth to conclude that: “Cocoa flavonoids provided to Type 2 diabetics — and olive oil...
The Magic Mediterranean diet is not a panacea. It never was.
Like magic, the Mediterranean Diet seems to cure all ills — diabetes, heart disease, obesity, crappy food choices. But it can’t cure all of them. You still need to move and be active. Crazy right? This study looked at 3,358 young people (between 18 and 30 y.o.) with prediabetes, and then...
Baked Honey Tomatoes
Jazz up a meal with this fancy but easy to make appetizer or side dish. You’ll Need: 8 medium tomatoes ½ cup bread crumbs 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon tarragon, dried 4 teaspoons honey 4 teaspoons butter Directions: Preheat oven to 350F. Slice off stem ends...
It’s Peach Pie Night at the Clower House. Be Here At 8!!
This pic is from my farmers market where I picked up a big bushel of peaches that have been perfume in my kitchen for 2 days now. So it’s totally time to get into the kitchen and whip out this pie. It’s dirt simple to do, and I’m going...
Taking Supplements Is Like Charlie Brown Trying To Kick The Football … Again.
FDA investigating high lead levels in supplements. Here’s a quote; “I’m so surprised that there are high lead levels in dietary supplements taken for better health,” said no one ever. How many reports have to come out about the irrelevance or outright harm that they can do? It doesn’t really...
When Brands Collide. My Story.
It’s weird. I started as a neuroscientist, recording brain cells from awake behaving primates to understand how the brain both controls movement and learns new movement behaviors — acquisition and execution. After doing research in France, I saw what everyone else sees and just wrote down a dietary cultural comparison....