I’m always scanning the newswire to see if there is anything diet-related that I can glean. Some days it seems like the news is pretty scant, and some days it just pops out at you in multiple outlets. Yesterday was one of those days as pretty much every online news source published an article about the recent revelation by Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, that he uses intermittent … [Read more...]
One in Five Deaths Linked to Poor Diet
While many of us are guilty of some vices, I think that thing that really gets a point across to help us stop a bad habit is to hear alarming statistics. It’s like when you are a smoker and you hear the statistics on how many people die every day, week, month, or year due to tobacco-related illness, or hearing statistics on drunk driving fatalities that really drives the point … [Read more...]
Does Our Diet Affect Climate Change?
Climate change has been a much-discussed topic for a number of years now, but the root causes often talked about tend to be the effects of industrialization and an ever-growing human population’s consumption of natural resources. But, have you ever considered the effect of the consumption of food on our carbon footprint?This seems to be a topic that has come up recently in a … [Read more...]
Dangers of a Juice Diet
With the popularity of the Vitamix blender and other similar devices, many people have begun to supplement their diet with juicing. It can be a quick, effective, and delicious way to get nutrients from fruits and vegetables. Taking down a glass of juice can be much easier than eating a plate of these foods when you’re in a pinch.However, it should not be misconstrued that you … [Read more...]
Can Diet Pills Keep Mosquitoes Away?
I’m always browsing Google News to see what kind of headlines there are in the areas of health and dieting. Typically, I am finding articles that talk about how good (or not) a particular diet is for you, what kind of exercises you should be doing, and general nutrition advice.Today’s headlines brought me something a little bit off-topic from those areas above, but still … [Read more...]