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Google Does Nutrition Info. -Your Move, Obesity…

Filed Under: Noise, Nutrition, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Google Does Nutrition Info. -Your Move, Obesity…
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It’s a very handy service they announced, where you can get your nutrition facts for over 1,000 types of different food straight from a web-search or an app. -Sweet!

And much like other web services like the previous leader, CalorieKing, you can change portion-sizes for exactly what you want.

Even better than CK, you can also ask it to tell you the carbs, fat, protein contents & a few other specs on the food you’re looking-up; -straight from the searchbox, without sifting first. -Better UX!

However, this is mostly…

Links:
InsideSearch-Introducing Nutrition Info

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Grab Yourself Some IV-Listerine, Because Biofilms Now Found All Up In Yo Arteries. -Possibly Linking Heart Attacks To Major Stress

Filed Under: Disease, Nutrition, Thinking Out Loud

Grab Yourself Some IV-Listerine, Because Biofilms Now Found All Up In Yo Arteries. -Possibly Linking Heart Attacks To Major Stress
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In the spirit of The MicroBiome that makes no man an island, science has found another connection to personal bacteria, and this time it’s linked to cardio-health.

(+strangely, this might even be the way that someone could literally be scared-to-death.)

SO: Part of the massive microbe colony in each of us is made of bacteria that take fat…

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MD Anderson CC’s List Of 41 Cancer-Fighting Foods

Filed Under: Disease, Nutrition

MD Anderson CC’s List Of 41 Cancer-Fighting Foods
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In one of their recent updates, MD Anderson from Wired’s Data-Life Conference just put out a list of a few foods you might want to check out.

Although it seems like they tried to pick items from every single aisle in the supermarket, and none of them are linked to the studies,

It’s Still pretty safe to assume that each and every choice on MDACC’s list is supported at least by research, if not also their own patient experiences…

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Stay Thirsty My Friends, New Natural Sweetener About To Charge Into The Bullring

Filed Under: Disease, Nutrition, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Stay Thirsty My Friends, New Natural Sweetener About To Charge Into The Bullring
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At the recent Dallas, Texas bullfight of the American Chemical Society, swanky matadora Mercedes G. Lopez trotted-out her newest masterpiece:

A naturally-derived sweetener that doesn’t raise blood-sugar. (sounds oxymoronic just like “powdered-alcohol”, right?)

Somehow this odd cousin…

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Your Brain May Be Sleep-Deprived But At Least That Morning Coffee Helps You Remember Why

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Nutrition

Your Brain May Be Sleep-Deprived But At Least That Morning Coffee Helps You Remember Why
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With all the recent bad news about sleep-problems being more serious than we thought before, here’s a bit of good news:

Coffee may be helping your brain in ways we didn’t previously know.

In this instance, a group of about 160 non-coffee-drinking adults were given pills while studying a series of images. One group got caffeine in those pills, and the other got placebos.

It turns out the caffeine group did noticeably-better on a certain type of deep-memory test 24 hours later…

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Choc To The Heart And Your Gut’s To Blame. Darlin, Bacteria Gives Cocoa, -A Grand Name

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Nutrition, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Choc To The Heart And Your Gut’s To Blame. Darlin, Bacteria Gives Cocoa, -A Grand Name
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Need another reason to love cocoa & dark chocolate?

Well you just got one, lady.

A new study out by LSU shows a very very lucky quirk about the composition of our friend the fermented, dried, roasted & ground cacao. And it makes all the difference.

So, one of the problems with actually getting beneficial compounds into you like antioxidants, polyphenols, & epi-catechins is “The Last Mile”.

You may get them into your supermarket, your cart, your mouth,…

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I Was Just Going To Complain About My Diet Until TheChive Reminded Me Of Christian Bale

Filed Under: Exercise, Featured, Nutrition, Other, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

I Was Just Going To Complain About My Diet Until TheChive Reminded Me Of Christian Bale
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1 Apple, 1 Can of Tuna, Coffee, Cigarettes & Vitamins to lose 63lbs. -or 34% of his mass in 4 months for “The Machinist”?

A little tiny bit more food, but running 4+ hour Ultra-Marathon-equivalents to lose almost as much between “Terminator Salvation” and “The Fighter”?

 
…-My Complaining? -OVER!…

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Tsar Wars, The Phantom Influence: Sugar & Corn Play Spy-Vs.-Spy Shadow War To Swipe Sweet Profits

Filed Under: Nutrition, Other, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Tsar Wars, The Phantom Influence: Sugar & Corn Play Spy-Vs.-Spy Shadow War To Swipe Sweet Profits
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A lot of times when you read new health info on the internet, you have to take it with a grain of salt.

Well Eric Lipton helps shed some new light on just how bad that can get with his piece at the NYT on the shadowy showdown between the Sugar and Corn Industries and their operators (which hopefully doesn’t include the Rutgers work on Soda).

The digest reads abit like one of those old “Spy Vs. Spy” cartoons,…

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