The Health Weblog
One Diet Fad That’s Actually Paying Off!:
We all hear about different health fads & recommendations pretty regularly.
-Including crazy stuff like the Big Pasta fad in the Big 80’s.
And along with them, we’ve heard things about all kinds of crazy oils, Snake oil, Krill Oil, Fish Oil, and Olive Oil.
Well science just found out something actually worthwhile about the last one…
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The Search For The Holy Grail:
So, ever since the beginning, HT has been about finding that extra hack that can help a lot if done consistently over time. Maybe even change your life.
And nowhere is that quest more symbolized than the hunt for the elusive Superfood.
They may seem like nothing more than drug-like hopes pinned on weird foods, but with things like blueberries & broccoli, the power of selective-nutrition grows as science progresses.
Well, another chapter of that quest looks like it might possibly be opening for another food…
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An Old Spectre Returns, Bearing Unexpected Gifts:
So forever you’ve been told that Steaming is the healthiest way to go for vegetables.
-And that anything other than the pyrotechnic-majesty of outdoor-grilling was nutritional-suicide. Maybe oven-roasting was a close second.
And so far, we’ve thought the experts were right.
Well some new experts have chimed in on an old bogeyman-cooking-method, and there is some light [if-qualified] at the end of the tunnel for that old health-nemesis: Deep Fat Frying…
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Let Food Be Your Medicine…:
More good news, my little easter bunnies! Yet another excuse to eat the world’s most popular sweet; as if you needed one.
So, our nutritional-research Hero Dr. Georgie Crichton & her intrepid team went back and examined a study called the MSLS on what people ate and drank over time.
And they found an interesting correlation between food and smarts.
One that worked -even after- factoring out many confounding variables…
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Too Much Of A Good/Bad Thing:
We’ve all been told we need antibiotics from time-to-time. But sometimes, that advice gets taken a bit too far into overuse.
So much so that not only do we now have antibiotic-resistant superbugs, but many strains of old annoyances are on the verge of turning antibiotic-resistant, too.
Well now we can chalk up another issue to watch out for: Long-Term Collateral-Damage…
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Don’t let the internet-myths & exaggerations stop you. Unlike a vitamin or a drug, there will probably be insufficiently-concentrated amounts of each substance in one single beer to have a serious effect.
→So your only recourse is to just go pro & make sure to start drinking more! -For the rest of your life.
Besides believe it or not, drinking alcohol really does have actual health benefits.
Anyway, just in-case there is a grain of truth to long-term repeated-exposure benefits, and supported by the best study links we could find…
Coffee and Tea drinking have been linked [perhaps a little tenuously at times] to a whole host of health benefits, like this, this, and this.
Well now we can add another one to that growing list.
It also turns out that coffee may prevent some cancer; on your skin; -seriously.
In a study of 400,000+ participants over about 10 years, taking into account diet and some environmental factors, drinking up to 3 cups of coffee a day was associated with a 10% reduction in…
Now, when you visualize something after hearing the word, “Superfood”, you probably imagine some impossibly-expensive super-bean from the north shore of Bali, the darkest part of the Amazon, the bleakest steppes of Maine blueberry-country, or Gwynneth Paltrow’s blog.
But the scientists at Rutgers had a different idea: What if you could make a superfood out of something common, that normal people eat every day without a second thought…
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,…
So, thanks to the research of Keith Cowing over at SpaceRef, we now know that the claims by Ameriscience that NASA had developed antioxidant softgels for the skin were incorrect.
Keith also goes on to note that the doctor whose alleged quotes were circulated is unpaid, uncontactable, works in the Family Practice & Preventive Medicine departments, and the only thing a person with that name ever published on Astro-Nautery was…
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