Blogs Overeating May Be Linked To Memory Loss
Amanda Gardner
Amanda Gardner is an award-winning writer whose credentials include medical and feature writing for the New York Daily News, The New York Times, Time Out and Self magazine. Older people who consume a diet very high in calories may be increasing their risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), the memory loss and mental-function problems that sometimes precede Alzheimer’s disease. In a new study of more than 1,200 people in their 70s and 80s, Mayo Clinic researchers found that men and women who consumed at least 2,143 calories per day had more than double the odds of having MCI, compared with those who consumed 1,526 calories per day or less. Preliminary findings from the study are slated to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in April. Unlike research published in medical journals, the study has not yet been thoroughly vetted by other experts in the field.
 Sugar, On A Slippery Slope
David Katz, M.D.
Director, Yale Prevention Research Center A commentary published last week in Nature argues for the regulation of sugar as a toxic substance. The authors and I agree about ends — reducing sugar intake — but have some potential differences about means. The notion that sugar is a “poison” was established when a lecture by Dr. Robert Lustig espousing that view went viral. Dr. Lustig has made the same case in peer-reviewed articles, and he and his co-authors do so again in last week’s commentary. While the construction of alarming tables and figures demonstrating the calamitous effects of sugar (and specifically, fructose — Dr. Lustig’s particular nemesis) can be defended with legitimate science, it is nonetheless something of a distortion. Even more calamitous pathways could be mapped out for oxygen, which in excess is not just highly toxic, but lethal in rather short order. Oxygen, per se, is not poison of course. The dose makes the poison.  10 Rules To Eat Safely For Life (And What To Remove From Your Kitchen)
Mark Hyman, M.D.
Mark Hyman, M.D. is a practicing physician and an internationally recognized authority in the field of Functional Medicine -- a revolution in 21st century medicine that provides a new road map for navigating the territory of health and illness. He is founder of The UltraWellness Center where he treats patients using this new model in his medical practice. Every day you have to navigate a toxic nutritional landscape. You have to hunt and gather in a food desert. You have to survive the American supermarket and dodge the dangers of industrial food. The good news is that if you follow 10 simple rules you can eat safely for life. Think of them as shortcuts or tricks to use when shopping or eating. If you just do these things and nothing else, you will automatically be eating real, fresh food that will prevent, treat and even reverse most of the chronic diseases that drain our energy, stress our families and deplete our economy. You don’t even have to understand anything about nutrition. Just follow these goof-proof rules for getting healthy, losing weight and feeling great. 
Study: High-Fat Foods Cause Brain Scarring
Jacque Wilson
I’m a senior associate producer for CNN.com features. As a multimedia journalist for the site, I write stories and blog posts, take and edit photos, shoot and cut original video packages and plan in-depth interactive projects. I work primarily with our health, entertainment and technology sections. Keeping pounds off long-term is difficult for even the most successful dieter, and scientists may now be on the path to determining why. A study published recently in The Journal of Clinical Investigation shows that high-fat foods cause damage to the hypothalamus – an area in the brain responsible for hunger, thirst and the body’s natural rhythms and cycles – in rodents. “These are really important papers that begin to push the idea out that we’re not in control as much as we think we are,” says Dr. Steven R. Smith, co-director for the Sanford-Burnham Diabetes and Obesity Research Center, who wasn’t involved with the study. However, Smith says researchers must first determine if the scarring happening in the rodent models will translate to the human condition. Not everything that scientists observe in rodents also applies to humans, of course, but it is a starting point.
Beware of Raw Cookie Dough
Eileen
Turns out mom was right: Keep your hands off the raw cookie dough.  5 Ways To Spot Hidden Sodium – Danielle Stone
Holly B. Clegg
A graduate of Cordon Bleu and an ongoing self-marketer, Holly is the author of a cookbook series, and has written specialized diabetic and cancer cookbooks How many times do you pick up the salt shaker to add salt to a recipe or to your meal, all the time thinking about the new information about too much sodium? You may have heard that reducing your sodium intake can help lower your blood pressure, which also reduces [...]  Stumped At The Supermarket? Your Food Label Glossary
Joanna Dolgoff, M.D.
Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. Get Joanna Dolgoff, M.D.'s RSS Feed GET UPDATES FROM Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. Like 141 Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. is a pediatrician, official spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics, child and adolescent obesity specialist, and Author of Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right (Rodale). – some of which are on children's cereal boxes. A recent study by Yale researchers from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity found that parents often misinterpret health claims on children's cereals, assuming they are more nutritious than they actually are. Researchers surveyed parents with [...]  Eat Well and Avoid Diseases
Dr. Leo Galland
Dr. Leo Galland is internationally recognized as a leader in integrated medicine. Dr. Galland is an award-winning clinician who is regularly chosen for America's Top Doctors. Why is nutrition important? The answer goes far beyond "You are what you eat." Nutrition is important because it fuels your body and gives you chemical building blocks like amino acids for making protein and calcium and magnesium for building bones and teeth. It provides fatty acids [...]  ‘Life’s Sweeter With Fewer Sugary Drinks’
Michael F. Jacobson; Ph.D
Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., is co-founder and executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). Jacobson has written numerous books and reports, including Nutrition Scoreboard. It shows in our bulging waistlines and widening bottoms, but equally so in the health care and economic sectors, where obesity is generating huge, unsustainable costs and reducing workplace productivity. The fattening of America — and its associated diseases — is sickening our children and threatens to cut their [...]  How Did Our Food Get So Crazy?
Christina Pirello
Christina Pirello, MFN, CCN is one of America’s preeminent authorities on natural and whole foods. A night of television viewing is enough to make a person schizophrenic. We bounce like tennis balls among reality shows that are laughable in their banality and how out of touch they are with most people's reality; cooking shows that rival the coliseum events of ancient Rome; news programs [...]  Don’t Let Your (Facebook) Friends See You Sweat
Will Aguila, M.D.
Medical Doctor and Family Weight-Loss Expert, Dr. Will Aguila, M.D., F.A.C.S., is a national expert on obesity and is the author of the new book, “Why I Don’t Lose Weight: Conquering the Cycle of Obesity” Thinking about posting your weight loss goals and updates on Facebook? What a great idea. You can instantly give yourself some virtual accountability. You can keep a daily journal that tracks your weight loss triumphs and setbacks. Seems like a no brainer, right? Wrong! Be careful, "caveat emptor" (let [...] |
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