Fortified Foods Make Us UN-Healthier? Here’s what the study says.
Let’s just say that you have a hand full of sugar and synthetic dyes. This, of course, is awful for your health. Don’t eat that. But then, what if you dissolved a multi-vitamin in it (which, on its own, abstracted from the context of food, does little to boost...
Low Carb Leads to Colon Cancer? Researchers Let Feces Tell This Story
The Atkins diet was always good for a few quick pounds of weight loss. But the phrase, “I’d die to lose weight” may be (unfortunately) more applicable here that you want to believe. Now you have to add “bad for your colon” to “bad for your kidney” and “bad...
How To Re-Charge Your Brain To Learn Better
What kind of activity is BEST, for recharging your brain? According to a new study, your brain’s batteries get juiced back up during the light, dreamless slumber that accounts for up to half of your night’s sleep. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley conducted tests on 44 healthy...
Green Beer? Really? A “Go Green” St Patrick’s Day VIDEO
I did this piece this morning on KDKA-TV, it was fun to talk about beer, food, and the crazy things that are in our food products!! You are going to cringe when you hear what’s in Green Beer!! For more information: Click here to visit Will Clower’s website....
Mediterranean Diet Lowers Risk of Heart Disease and Diabetes
Try the “blood type” theory or the “low carb” theory or the “eat every three hours” theory or the “food combining” theory … and hope hope hope that it will turn out to work! Good luck with that. Alternatively, you could just do what healthy people do. If you do...
Radio Show Notes: Making Polenta w amazing recipe
I love polenta … in writing this article, I noticed that the word ‘polenta’ wasn’t even in my spell-checker!! How can that BE? To listen to this conversation live, click here. Show time is Saturday, 12-1pm EST, call in to chat with me: 412.333.1360 Polenta is awesome, dirt-simple to make...
Radio Show Notes: Neuropsychiatrist assesses Charlie Sheen on air!!
Dr Afield is going to talk to us about the mental state of Charlie Sheen … and the line between crazy-talk and REALLY really crazy. To listen to this rant live, click here. Show time is Saturday, 12-1pm EST, call in to chat with me: 412.333.1360 The US is #1...
Want high blood pressure? Here’s what to drink.
Just when you thought it was safe. Just when you thought it was easy to understand how to prevent high blood pressure and the pesky brain haemorrhage that can follow from it. Just cut out salt, right? Well, now scientists have linked drinking sugary drinks like fizzy cola and fruit drinks...
Welch’s lied about juice claims. A math error?
See where it says “100% Juice”. It seems as though there was in fact a math error. This is said best by Ily Goyanes at the Miami New Times Food Blog … so I’ll let him tell the story. ______________Welch’s, known for its juices and commercials featuring adorable gap toothed kids,...
Is Love Better for Men’s Health Or Women’s?
This story from Health.com is interesting. It starts out by asking whether marriage is good for your health … but ends up deciding that it’s not marriage at all. It’s love. What’s also funny is how “relationship” affects men and women differently … wonder why THAT is. I mean,...
National Sleep Awareness Week
How’d you sleep last night? If you’re among the third of Americans who don’t get enough shut-eye, then there’s no better opportunity to make sleep a priority than National Sleep Awareness Week, taking place this year from March 7 to 13. This annual education and awareness campaign, spearheaded by the National Sleep...
Jon Stewart’s Pantry of Shame VIDEO
This hilarious piece on the absurdity of our Culture of Health. The Daily Show – Intro – Pantry of ShameTags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook For more information: Click here to visit Will Clower’s website....