Robert Crayhon, my friend, co-worker and nutritionist extraordinaire posted an important blog today that people need to read. He talks about the absurdity of the food pyramid, put out by the USDA. He tells it like it is as usual. His blog is one you need to read every once in a while.
A Blog You Need To Read
April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Food and Eating · Health · Medical Research · Obesity · Opinion
Buying Bottled Water in a Restaurant – Snobbery or Just Bad Idea?
March 4th, 2008 · No Comments
The United Kingdom’s Consumer Council for Water, launched a campaign to try to get restaurants to stop pushing bottled water to customers. The main reason is the transport of said water accounts for 32 kilotonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year in the UK alone (probably ten times that amount in the United States). Yve [...]
Tags: Environment · Opinion
Obesity Caused By Over Eating? Not So Fast.
February 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Coming out soon is a book that Gary Taubes, a New York City journalist has written called The Diet Delusion by Vermilion. In it he writes that obesity is not simply eating too many calories but the abnormal effect on ones hormones. Taube wrote in the recent New Scientist magazine (January 19-25th, 2008) that “There is [...]
Tags: Disease · Food and Eating · Health · Obesity
Health Care Reform – Reform Ourselves First
October 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
We continue to hear politicians running for President yap about health care reform and how our system is broken and doesn’t help millions of Americans which, on the surface is true, but they refuse to acknowledge another real dillema and that is the need for tens of millions of Americans to reform themselves first. The [...]
Tags: Controversial Issues · Food and Eating · Health · Obesity · Opinion · Politics
Vegetarians Need More Protein
October 1st, 2007 · No Comments
In an interesting article on CNN.com, reporter Judy Fortin talks about how vegetarians need to watch and adjust their protein intake regularly or they run the risk of protein deficiencies. Over the past 20 years, I have been able to view the laboratory test results of a number of vegetarians and rarely do I find [...]
Tags: Food and Eating · Health · Medical Research · Opinion
Funny Cartoon About Nutrition
September 26th, 2007 · No Comments
Here is an interesting little video about nutrition from youtube called Punk da Junk: A Journey of Epic Nutrition.
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Tags: Food and Eating · Health