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How much do fruits and veggies cost? Federal dietary guidance advises Americans to consume more vegetables and fruits because most Americans do not consume the recommended quantities or variety. Food prices, along with taste, convenience, income, and awareness of the link between diet and health, shape food choices. We used 2008 Nielsen Homescan data to estimate the average price at retail stores of a pound and an edible cup equivalent (or, for juices, a pint and an edible cup equivalent) of 153 commonly consumed fresh and processed fruits and vegetables. We found that average prices ranged from less than 20 cents per edible cup equivalent to more than $2 per edible cup equivalent. We also found that, in 2008, an adult on a 2,000- calorie diet could satisfy recommendations for vegetable and fruit consumption in the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (amounts and variety) at an average price of $2 to $2.50 per day, or approximately 50 cents per edible cup equivalent.
If you haven't stretched in a while, there's been some changes. Dr. Tom Coniglione writes this fabulous article about stretching. Check it out here on page 10. It's from the Oklahoma City Running Club's February 2011 newsletter. Homeopathy sounds like such a benevolent part of health. However, please be warned that you may just be paying a lot of money for 4oz. of water. It won't harm you, but it will decrease the size of your wallet without the benefit of giving you relief to your ailment. The James Randi Education Foundation will pay you $1 million to refute this claim and the 10:23 Challenge will give you more information. About 340,000 cancer cases in the United States could be prevented each year if more Americans ate a healthy diet, got regular exercise and limited their alcohol intake, according to the World Cancer Research Fund. Click here to read the story.
Some people want to get their Omega 3s, but they don't want the fishy smell and they aren't too keen about...well, let's just say, some people are into compassionate nutrition. Therefore, you can get your vitamins and remain sustainable! Just click on here for details.
We have been conditioned to believe that having a big breakfast is the key to getting and keeping the weight off. If that isn't the case for you, then rejoice in your intellect because a German study now debunks that old wives’ tale. Big breakfasts aren't the end all and be all (or whatever that statement is). Read here for the article.
Listening to music causes the brain to release dopamine, a chemical that makes people feel pleasure, says a new study.
Here’s a new site that may help you formulate questions for medical professionals and let you know about important information regarding potentially dangerous side effects associated with certain medications. By providing FDA alerts, drug interactions, and potential side effects on the site, patients have access to valuable knowledge that could enhance their ability to voice concerns with their doctor and improve their quality of care. Click on to DrugWatch here. It is a one stop shop for you!
This video is extremely interesting if you want to learn how to live a longer and healthier life. The clip is about 20 minutes and covers the basics of living healthier. Eating right, exercising and having great social connections are sure show stoppers. Your genes are responsible for only about 10 percent of your health. The rest is up to you. Strangely enough, being happy is a huge portion of being health. Start making just little, teeny changes. Click here to view.
Here is a simple way to eat healthy. Not much measuring, if any, and no big restrictions. It's the Eat To Live--Six Week Plan. Try it for just six weeks and see if you don't feel healthier and lighter. Once you have clicked on that website, here's another one that will give you some ideas for low-fat protein. Click here for more.
Study Reveals Tips to Make Your Healthy Habits Stick. You know that eating right and exercise are the two main ingredients for health. Making it happen is another story. Learn how to change your habits despite temptation surrounding you. The American Heart Association discovered some steps people can take to help them reach their healthy goals. Read the blog about it here.
If you are looking to be the healthiest you can be, then join Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) in their 21-Day Vegan Kickstart program. You can receive tips and recipes all based actual research done by one of America's leading health advocates, Neal Barnard, M.D. Click here for the website.
All work and no play can be as dangerous as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. A new meta-analysis reports that "interpersonal social networks are more crucial to physical health than exercising or beating obesity."
Gettting out in the sun will not just give you a good-looking tan, but just 15 to 20 minutes a day could help you get your levels of Vitamin D up to where they should be and keep you from Parkinson's disease, cognitive decline. Read more here.
Gender-Specific Formula for Women's Peak Heart Rate 'More Accurate'. New model better predicts risk of heart-related death, researchers say. A simple formula -- 220 minus age -- has long been used to calculate peak heart rates for women and men during exercise. But that formula was based on studies of men. The new formula developed for women is 206 minus 88 percent of age.
Fit People Release More Fat-Burning Molecules During Exercise And marathon runners generate far more than those who do moderate exercise, study shows. A better understanding of these fat-burning molecules, called metabolites, may not only boost athletic performance, but help prevent or treat chronic illnesses such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease by correcting metabolite deficiencies, the researchers said.
Junk Food 'Addiction' May Be Real. In study of rats, the more fattening foods they ate, the more they wanted. When researchers gave the rats unlimited access to a calorie-laden diet of bacon, pound cake, candy bars and other junk food, the rats quickly gained lots of weight. As they plumped up, eating became such a compulsion that they kept chowing down even when they knew they would receive an unpleasant electric shock to their foot if they did so. Meanwhile, rats fed the human equivalent of a well-balanced meal. If you want to read another article about it, click here.
Seaweed to Tackle Rising Tide of Obesity. A team of scientists led by Dr Iain Brownlee and Prof Jeff Pearson have found that Alginate -- a natural fibre found in sea kelp -- stops the body from absorbing fat better than most anti-obesity treatments currently available over the counter. So check out this fabulous study reported by ScienceDaily (a magazine devoted to scientific studies rather than sensationalism) for more information.
Diet and exercise can improve your mind the latest study suggests. Physical activity does seem to have a direct effect on brain cells, said Patrick Smith, an intern in clinical neuropsychology and a member of a Duke University team reporting the finding online in the March 8 issue of Hypertension. "There are neurochemical changes that happen with exercise, he said. There is increased production of brain-derived neurotrophic factor, which stimulates connection with other brain cells, but also there is some evidence that it helps grow new brain cells."
Institutionalized discrimination has proven to lead to increased risk of psychiatric disorders. The news release states that institutional discrimination "is characterized by societal-level conditions that limit the opportunities and access to resources by socially disadvantaged groups."
Asthma rates are increasing across the United States, a new government study shows, but certain states have significantly lower rates of the respiratory disease. Nineteen states had larger-than-average increases, and the states with the two highest increases were Oklahoma with a 2.03 percent increase and Alabama with a 1.91 percent increase.
People who say their lives have a purpose are less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease or its precursor, mild cognitive impairment, a new study suggests. The researchers found that people who responded most positively to statements about their lives were the least likely to develop the condition. Also, people who said they had more purposeful lives were less likely to develop mild cognitive impairment and had a slower rate of cognitive decline.
You really can reverse your horrible eating behaviors and fix up those arteries. "Once one adheres to a sensible diet, even though you experience only a moderate weight loss, if you stick to it long enough you can cause regression of atherosclerosis," explained Iris Shai, a nutritional epidemiologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and lead author of a report published in the March 16 print issue of the journal Circulation.
Tune Up Your Health and discover why listening to music has some great health qualities. There's a lot to learn, said Robert Zatorre, a professor at McGill University in Montreal, where he studies the topic at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Music has been shown to help with such things as pain and memory, he said, but "we don't know for sure that it does improve our [overall] health."
Self-Control Just Might Be Contagious. If you spend time with people who exhibit self-control -- resisting the death-by-chocolate cake after a restaurant meal, for instance -- you can expect your own self-control to be pretty good, too, according to new research. Also, spending time with people with less-than-ideal self-control will influence you negatively, the researchers found.
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