Coffee Is Super Healthy, Unless You Mess It Up In One of These Three Ways
From a health perspective, coffee has turned a corner and is increasingly recognized as a healthful drink. In addition to being an antioxidant, it’s also linked to a decreased risk for Parkinson’s disease, protecting against type 2 diabetes, improving heart health, and lowering rates of depression in women. Despite...
Milk Is In Your Chocolate, Even When It Says There Is None
Got Milk (In Your Chocolate)? After peanuts and tree nuts, milk is the most common allergen that can cause anaphylaxis (a life-threatening reaction that can narrow airways and block breathing). Less dire symptoms include hives, wheezing, and vomiting.Follow @willclower By the way, an allergic reaction like one of these...
Ask Will: Dissing Dairy
Dear Will, Our son and daughter-in-law have informed us that based upon advice of co-workers in the medical profession, they will give our grandson almond milk rather than regular milk once he’s off formula. I may be old school, but I’ve never heard of such a thing unless a child...
Dairy Controversy? Here are the data
Check this out.I did a very simple thing. I just looked at the heart disease rate in 17 countries (heart disease per 100,000 people).Then, I found the average amount of dairy foods that these people are eating, per person, per year. Below, you will see the graphs of three kinds...
Video: How Harvard Disses Dairy … and WHY?
The USDA has been producing dietary guidelines for about 100 years now. The picture has gone from a PIE, to a square, to a pyramid, to a “rainbow pyramid”, to a circular plate. In this interview, I talk about how this change happened, WHY it happened, and the controversy around it....
Were They Wrong About Whole-Fat Dairy? Study: May Lower Diabetes Risk
The short answer is … yes. And I’m going to talk about how this little research finding relates to our Culture of Health. Why were we so confused for so long about so much? Because we rely on a source of knowledge that is inherently unstable: research science. Knowledge...
Five dairy servings a day can trigger weight loss, says study
The debate continues. Is dairy beneficial for weight loss? Healthy cultures, like in the Mediterranean region, eat dairy every day. Of course, you don’t have to eat exactly 5 servings each day, but you also don’t have to avoid it. Here’s the report: New research suggests that increasing dairy...
Dairy foods help kids build stronger bones
One of the biggest dietary changes that has taken hold in our culture — over the past 40 years — is that milk has been replaced by sodas as the kids’ drink of choice. Now, according to new research reported in the Journal of Pediatrics, when you eat dairy...
Say Cheese!
This is a new angle for the dairy industry. It used to be “Milk, it does the body good.” But now recent research showing the link between dairy and weight loss, and even the prevention of weight re-gain after you’ve had a backslide into weight problems. These new findings...
Doctors Dissing Dairy Debatable
Our culture of health can be so misleading, especially when we hear reasonable. This woman is Amy Lanou, who co-authored this article dissing the prospective role of dairy in diet . If you read the release, you’ll see that they make it seem like she is an academic who...