• Unlike many weight loss products that focus solely on appetite suppression or metabolic stimulation, Liv Pure recognizes that a healthy liver plays a crucial role in converting food into energy and preventing the storage of excess fat. (expert2review.com)
  • These may be classed as ultra-processed but can still be part of a healthy diet. (foodpolitics.com)
  • The arguments range from tiresome (nanny state) to insulting (kids will eat healthy food only if it's sweet or disguised) to thoughtful (concerns over calcium intake and federal lunch reimbursements). (13roads.com)
  • Conventional wisdom states that whole grains are part of a heart-healthy diet, and cereal commercials abound making that same claim. (detailshere.com)
  • Many foods are, indeed, most nutritious when raw. (huffpost.com)
  • Raw food advocacy ignores the fact that some foods are more nutritious when cooked. (huffpost.com)
  • And there are potential harms of cooking that raw foods sidestep. (huffpost.com)
  • In Europe, it is already illegal for doctors to use the terms "probiotic," "superfood," and "antioxidant" when used in relation to commercial food products or supplements-and European doctors who even mention the benefits or health claims of any food, supplement, or non-drug product to patients face jail time. (anh-usa.org)
  • This made it easier to stick to a balanced diet and avoid the temptations of sugary snacks and junk food. (expert2review.com)
  • My misconception like most people was that there were two scenarios where you get diabetes Either it's hereditary and it's not your fault, or you eat junk food like it's going out of style and end up diabetic. (detailshere.com)
  • The film also discusses the pernicious influence and sheer power of the processed food industry, and how they shape our food culture and much of the 'conventional wisdom' about food through junk food advertising . (detailshere.com)
  • Many foods can be eaten raw, and many foods are the better for it. (huffpost.com)
  • Stated another way, the increased palatability of the diet initiates a vicious cycle in which hedonics cause more food to be eaten than is necessary to meet energy needs, and the increased calories in turn initiate events that lead to insulin/leptin resistance and a consequent tendency to eat even more food (Figure 4). (blogspot.com)
  • What has happened over the past few decades is that organizations like the U.S. Department of Agriculture (with the "food pyramid"), along with certain members of the media (who lazily prefer clear, simple statements over correct ambiguity), have cascaded over one another until the fat intake-heart disease "link" became chiseled in stone. (tucsonweekly.com)
  • They're based on industry lobbying just like the USDA's Food Pyramid, which is fraught with massive industry conflicts of interest . (detailshere.com)
  • We simply cannot follow the conventional food pyramid (or the updated version called MyPlate ), and maintain optimal health. (detailshere.com)
  • Additionally, Liv Pure helped me control my cravings and reduce my appetite for unhealthy foods. (expert2review.com)
  • By placing an emphasis on plant foods, the diet is a rich source of the foods that are in turn the richest sources of valuable nutrients. (huffpost.com)
  • Even more important than the nutrients that cooking can "add" to food are the things it can take away, namely pathogenic bacteria. (huffpost.com)
  • With this post I am hoping to start a thread on the subject of foods/nutrients/substances members believe we ought to make a special point of consuming on a "regular" basis. (crsociety.org)
  • Author Michael Pollan has suggested that orthorexia is the fallout of nutritionism , a food-industry construct that emphasizes nutrients (often fortified ) over actual whole foods. (13roads.com)
  • One reason is that except for wild game, wild mushrooms, and wild berries, and fish and shellfish, virtually all the foods in our diet-including those grown organically, harvested, cooked and consumed so reverently in "Modified"-have been intentionally, if crudely, genetically modified over time. (henrymillermd.org)
  • It has a combination of food categories (e.g. berries), specific individual foods (e.g. garlic), food components (e.g oat bran, cocoa powder), isolated supplements (e.g. (crsociety.org)
  • C) I do NOT mean this topic to cover what we all know and recognize to be overall desirable nutrition: We already well know that in general it is better for health and longevity to consume a low calorie mostly-plant-based diet of fruits, vegetables and perhaps whole grains, along with a modest quantity of carefully selected animal products - of which fish might be the most obvious example. (crsociety.org)
  • Leptin is only one of many inputs into the mesolimbic [dopamine] system and other neural pathways that regulate the perception of food reward, and physiological leptin levels may not be able to suppress the myriad other signals that compel us to consume tasty food. (blogspot.com)
  • The idea that the dinosaurs died out not only from sudden climate change upsetting their world- too cold for their bodies that can't regulate temperature, lack of food sources weakens them and disease becomes widespread- but also because of actions taken by the smaller, weaker mammals- was a new one. (blogspot.com)
  • How then is the action of leptin to regulate the perception of food reward overwhelmed to promote obesity in the face of plentiful tasty food? (blogspot.com)
  • There is, however, a great leap of faith from some benefit in eating some foods raw some of the time, to raw is always and dramatically better. (huffpost.com)
  • Disguised as a tender, sentimental story of a Canadian woman learning over many years from her mother the value of home-grown, homemade food-a sort of culinary version of "Anne of Green Gables"-it is nothing more than an anti-social screed providing fodder for the anti-science, anti-corporate echo-chamber that relentlessly attacks agricultural biotechnology, the application of modern genetic engineering to agriculture. (henrymillermd.org)
  • The audience is far less likely to be overwhelmingly correct on science or geography questions. (tucsonweekly.com)
  • How does such dubious junk science get published. (dcscience.net)
  • When the liver functions optimally, it prevents excess food from being stored as fat, facilitating weight loss. (expert2review.com)
  • And because food choice is subject to rather strict constraints, calories are caged -- making raw food diets an effective answer to the prevailing problems of weight control. (huffpost.com)
  • The diet renounces most processed foods, and thus eliminates trans fat, and provides generally very low levels of saturated fat, sodium, and sugar -- while providing nutrient-dense foods, rich in fiber. (huffpost.com)
  • Although some of the obesogenic effects of tasty foods may be due to their nutrient content, the hedonic or rewarding properties of these foods also contribute. (blogspot.com)
  • I'm always surprised when the nutrition community opposes evidence for the association of ultra-processed foods with poor health outcomes. (foodpolitics.com)
  • Overwhelmingly, the evidence points to a faulty diet indeed the entire culture of inappropriate, health-harming food which is the topic of the fast-paced documentary, Carb-Loaded: A Culture Dying to Eat, 3 produced by Lathe Poland and Eric Carlsen. (detailshere.com)
  • Some evidence exists for developmental alterations in neural and other systems that may underlie some propensity to obesity, but the ready availability of palatable, calorically dense food (the basis for [diet-induced obesity] in experimental animals) clearly plays a dominant role . (blogspot.com)
  • But this change is the latest response to student uneasiness over an idealized Western "canon"-a product of an overwhelmingly white, straight, European and male cadre of artists. (illinoislawreview.org)
  • Raw food diets have emerged as a pop culture preoccupation . (huffpost.com)
  • As the filmmakers note, 'refined and processed foods, especially processed carbohydrates have become a staple of our culture, and we are reaping the consequences. (detailshere.com)
  • Even athletes would be well advised to reconsider carb-loading , as a high fat diet tends to improve performance to a greater degree. (detailshere.com)
  • When a [high-fat diet] is suddenly made available to an individual, sensory properties of the food (e.g., odor, taste, mouth feel) are intrinsically pleasant and lead to more food being consumed. (blogspot.com)
  • Bridget Benelam, a BNF spokesperson, explained: For many of us when we get home after a busy day, foods like baked beans, wholemeal toast, fish fingers or ready-made pasta sauces are an affordable way to get a balanced meal on the table quickly. (foodpolitics.com)
  • How nuts are we as a country that healthful food is gleefully ridiculed while government-subsidized dreck is defended as a symbol of ideal nutrition and food freedom? (13roads.com)
  • Like many people, I struggled with weight gain and found it challenging to shed those extra pounds despite trying various diets and exercise routines. (expert2review.com)
  • But the case for raw food diets is oversold, the rhetoric is overheated, and the claims of universal benefits -- substantially overcooked. (huffpost.com)
  • Even before Jamie Oliver filled a schoolbus with sand-cum-sugar to make his point in Los Angeles, school-food activists were on the case. (13roads.com)
  • Meaningful health effects of swallowing an enzyme that doesn't survive to see the duodenum are dubious at best. (huffpost.com)
  • This thread would instead be for special cases of foods and other substances believed to have specific, special health attributes. (crsociety.org)
  • Translated literally, it means "correct appetite" or "correct eating," and it's when people obsess over the "right" foods to the point that it controls their lives and wrecks their health. (13roads.com)
  • Worse than that, ex-fast food employees reveal nuggets are left sitting out under heat lamps well beyond health agency recommendations. (heraldweekly.com)
  • There are, to be sure, potential benefits of such a diet -- or of many aspects of it. (huffpost.com)
  • The study that many point to in order to back up that dubious contention concluded that Seventh-day Adventists (who are vegetarians) live about four years longer than do people who don't follow that particular faith. (tucsonweekly.com)
  • An article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association in 1970 claimed that famed astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus might have revolutionized not just our understanding of the solar system but also our daily diet by introducing the practice of spreading butter on bread. (listverse.com)
  • We now have a new study showing that by the year 2000, California Hispanics (overwhelmingly Mexicans and Chicanos) have become much darker over 16 years. (beyondhighbrow.com)
  • Take this basic statement: There is a direct correlation between the amount of fat in a person's diet and the risk of heart disease. (tucsonweekly.com)
  • There are claims, for instance, that raw food is better because cooking destroys enzymes in plants. (huffpost.com)
  • If it does include animal foods, they are consumed raw. (huffpost.com)
  • We have enough trouble getting people to eat a reasonable amount of reasonable foods, and to renounce ingestibles that glow in the dark. (huffpost.com)
  • Basically, what they're saying is pretty simple: the brain's hard-wired mechanisms for regulating food intake and fat mass in a natural environment are not sufficient to protect against modern hyper-palatable and hyper-rewarding food. (blogspot.com)
  • Powell states the Depression was worsened and prolonged "by doubling taxes, making it more expensive for employers to hire people, making it harder for entrepreneurs to raise capital, demonizing employers, destroying food. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is an advanced stage of insulin resistance , 4 which is typically caused by a diet that is too high in sugars and sugar-forming foods such as grains. (detailshere.com)
  • create ethical guidelines for physicians in the media, write a report on how doctors may be disciplined for violating medical ethics through their press involvement, and release a public statement denouncing the dissemination of dubious medical information through the radio, TV, newspapers, or websites. (anh-usa.org)
  • For the last 50 years, Americans have been told to eat a high complex carbohydrate, low saturated fat diet. (detailshere.com)