Author Archive
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Eleven Year Old Aspires to Change US Food System
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Organic Diet
Your best shot at safety in food is to eat whole, unprocessed foods,organic and wild caught. Like The Silver Cloud Diet says. But its good to see the FDA is gonna get its teeth back. Yeah! Advocates for food safety scored a major win last week when the House of Representatives approved a bill tha...
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Diet News: Is animal fat bad for your health?
Despite what the mainstream press has been pushing for nearly thirty years now, animal fat is actually a healthy part of a balanced diet. I know, you've read all the press, and heard all the scare tactics about how dangerous it is to eat animal fats. No bacon. No butter. No heavy cream. No thick s...
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Voting with your Fork – Weight loss
Last week, I went to see the new documentary, Food, Inc. I can't get over the impressions I got from that movie. One, industrial farming may sicken consumers who eat the foods that are produced in this monoculture agriculture model. But we have a lot of power in the market place, and if we a...
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To Soy or Not To Soy – Diets
Soy burst onto the health food scene and was touted as the panacea for everything from heart disease to bad breath. Those marketers who were beating the drum for soy pointed to the Japanese and their reliance on soy in the diet and the fact that they had lower rates of heart disease and cancer than...
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Eat More Saturated Fat. Lower Your Cholesterol. Improve Your Weight and Heart Health – Weight Loss
Yes, it's true. The more saturated fat you eat, the healthier you will be, and all the while, losing weight at a gratifying rate. How is this possible? In a study done by endocrinologist, James Hays, MD., he found that by putting his patients who were at risk for diabetes type II on a diet that c...
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Mice Swill Red Wine: Lose Weight. I like the way those mice reason.
By Linda Eckhardt: A German Science team who found that the antioxidant, resveratrol, the active ingredient in red wine already known to keep your heart healthy and to ward off cancer also turned out to be a fat fighter was good news at the Endocrine Society's 90th Annual meeting in San Francisco...
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Light, Lite, or Sugar Free? What’s Best and What’s the Difference
Label Reading is one of the most important skills you can learn to stay on your Silver Cloud. As a general rule, you should buy products in the grocery store with a carb count under 10. This is not always so easy and especially with the deliberate confusion foisted off on us by the food marketers....
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Staying On Target With Your Diet Goals
By: Linda Eckhardt I don't know about you. But many things can cause me to lose focus on my diet goals. A celebration. A bad day at work. A disagreement with the neighbor who is cutting down a healthy 100 year old tree. A friend coming into town for two weeks. All these things can interfere ...
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Why You Must Remember to Include Saturated Fat in your Diet
By: Dr. John Salerno, MD The confusion over fats, particularly saturated fats, has seeped into every corner of our culture. Entire medical careers have been made on the notion that saturated fats would lead to heart attacks. On top of that, the notion that cholesterol was associated with ...
