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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Killer Energy Drinks?

In case you needed another reason to nix the energy drinks, the Food and Drug Administration says that five recent deaths may be linked to Monster Energy Drinks.

We know that mixing energy drinks and booze is bad news for your health, but even without the boozy help, those cans of energy drink are still pretty unhealthy. They’re loaded with unhealthy additives like:

Sugars. Even energy drinks that taste terrible are loaded with as much sugar as a soda, if not more. Often, the sweetener is high fructose corn syrup.
Artificial sweeteners. Diet or lower-calorie energy drinks tend to use sweeteners like aspartame.
Artificial flavors and colors. Most energy drinks on store shelves are not made from real juice, so they need chemical flavorings and colorings to make them look and taste more appealing.
Stimulants. This is where the immediate health concerns come in. Energy drinks contain caffeine along with a cocktail of other stimulants, like ginseng and taurine. In moderation and on their own, these ingredients aren’t necessarily unhealthy. It’s all about the amounts, and energy drinks contain high doses of stimulants.

On top of the FDA investigation, one family is suing Monster because their 14-year-old daughter died after drinking two cans of their product in a 24-hour period. Monster is doubling down, saying that its product is totally safe and that these charges are all false.

According to Food Safety News:

The lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court in Riverside, said that after drinking two 24-ounce cans of Monster Energy on consecutive days Fournier went into cardiac arrest. She died days later on December 23, 2011 from what the lawsuit said was “cardiac arrhythmia due to caffeine toxicity” that complicated a heart disorder she already had.

On Monday, FDA spokeswoman Shelly Burgess said the agency had received reports of five deaths and one heart attack that may be associated with the Monster Energy drink from 2009 through June this year.

Is drinking a Monster energy drink going to kill you? Probably not, but until the FDA investigation is through, it might be a good idea to get your energy boost elsewhere. On the next page, check out a list of five natural ways to amp up your energy without energy drinks.

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Source : care2[dot]com

Healthy Eating on a Budget – Mission Possible!

Too often people motivate their unhealthy eating plan with lack of money

And really between people with low-income level of obesity is bigger. The reason for this is not only economic. It is also true that quality products are more expensive but here comes tiny psychological moment. When someone frequently suffer from destitution, even if they are not connected with food sub-consciously are afraid that they will starve to death.

Why is it important to lead a healthy life

Healthy eating doesn’t definitely mean expensive and exotic diet food or bio products

People with low- income buy high-calorie, low-quality foods in in large quantities, instinctively. With systematic overeating they try to combat the anxiety that they can stay hungry, bored by the lack of entertainment and stress of the difficult life.
Healthy eating doesn’t definitely mean expensive and exotic diet food or bio products. The rule is simple – the more unprocessed the food the more valuable to the body.
Here some tips which will help you to eat healthy with little money:
- Instead of suspicious sausages and cooked buy cheap seasonal vegetables such as cabbage, carrots, onions, beets, turnips, cauliflower, kale, spinach, rhubarb, the salad, cucumbers, zucchini, eggplant, beans, green beans and more. Fresh tomatoes and peppers allow you only in summer and early autumn, not so much because of the low price, but also because grown beyond this season; they are far from healthy eating. With all of these vegetables can be cooked as vitamin salads and delicious meals.

Emotional Eating Means Emotional Problems
- Replace mayonnaise with home-made ones – chutney, sauerkraut, pickled cucumbers and other vegetables. They are low calorie, rich in vitamins and lactic acid, which maintains beneficial micro flora in the gastrointestinal tract, and hence the health of the whole organism.
- During the summer freeze and dry on sun some seasonal fruits and vegetables – bell pepper, raspberries, peaches, plums, strawberries, cherries. Others as peas, corn, green beans buy frozen as they are cheap.
- Instead of watching TV all he weekend go to the nature with your family. During that time you can pick organic nettle, dock, liorda, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, cornel, herbs, wild pears and hazelnuts.
- Protein-rich plant products such as beans, lentils, peas, mushrooms can replace much of the meat in your menu. If you still find it difficult to sit at the table without “good piece” cook meat and vegetable dishes. This will also reduce the cost of food and increase diversity.

Right Food for Every Feeling and Emotion
- Do not forget about the wide variety of cereals, which is good to attend mass not only in the form of bread. Raw beans contain fiber, vitamins B and E, the most important minerals and contrary to popular belief – many proteins. For example, in almost all recipes rice can be substituted with bulgur or barley, and oats are cheaper and healthier alternative to cornflakes.
- Another excellent and inexpensive source of protein and vitamins are eggs. Eat them for breakfast, add them to salads or serve them seasoned with spices as a starter.
- All products can be stored longer, buy large packages. So you can afford better quality products at not so high price.
- Buy cheap fish. It is just as useful as her dear family, especially cooked in the oven or grill.
- Front of the TV to eat between meals and do not take candy wafers, sticks and chips, and raw nuts, dried fruit, apples. If you want much more of a dessert, it is not ready with cream and fruit – such as apple pie, pumpkin, or strudel cake wholegrain flour and raisins.

Source : dailyhealtharticles[dot]com

Friday, October 19, 2012

Lead Poisoning Risk From Venison

The reason animal products trigger inflammation in the body within hours of consumption is thought to be due to the residual bacterial toxins that survive the cooking process. This is all detailed in my Care2 article Why Meat Causes Inflammation. The saturated animal fat then helps ferry these endotoxins across the gut wall into our bloodstream. As concluded in a 2012 review, “while the most obvious solution to metabolic endotoxemia appears to be to reduce saturated fat intake, the Western diet is not conducive to this mode of action, and it is difficult for patients to comply with this request.” Thus, researchers have looked to wild animals for less inflammatory meat options.

Wild pheasants, for example, have been found to have significantly less saturated fat than farmed pheasants, so one would assume wild pheasant meat would trigger less inflammation. This concept wasn’t put to the test until recently. In my 3-min. video, Modern Meat Not Ahead of the Game, I profile a study performed by a group of Australian researchers that compared the amount of inflammation triggered by domesticated animal meat to wild kangaroo meat.

They found that eating kangaroos did trigger an inflammatory response, but not as much as the store-brought meat. This would suggest that venison, for example, would cause less inflammation than chicken, but the way in which the deer is killed makes a difference. See my NutritionFacts.org video pick above for the results of a study that raised food safety concerns about conventional ammunition. Note, lead has also been found in protein powder supplements, ayervedic medicine supplements, and other animal products. Like mercury in tuna, no level of lead consumption can be considered safe.

For more depth, the inflammatory effects of animal foods are explored in my 3-part video series:

Most whole plant foods are anti-inflammatory–see:

In health,
Michael Greger, M.D.

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