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Category: healthy food

  • That soda will kill ya!

    Sodas will kill you, it seems. Sugar, hfcs, or artificial sweerners, all will shorten your life.!
    This massive study in Europe followed almost a half million people for an average of 16 years, analyzing death rates. Drinking two or more sodas was correlated to many types of fatal illnesses.

    Other studies have shown links to cancers and other ails.

    Doctors recommend water instead.

    Meanwhile, drinking a glass of beer or wine increases your life and (generally) improves your heath.

    https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20190903/once-again-soda-tied-to-higher-risk-of-early-death

  • Processed Foods will Kill ya

    There’s a great study out related to letting people eat processed foods, as much as they want, verses giving people healthy food… as much as they want.
    Personally, I wonder if the salt alone is not part of the problem.
    Those people who eat processed foods for the required 15 days, eat more and gained more weight.
    This seemed like an exceptionally well designed study. One group did the 15 days healthy first, then junk-y food; the other group did the opposite.
    NPR did a great go at the results of this study that was published in Cell magazine.
    Looks like very good controls were used.
    When on the ultra-processed foods diet, subjects eat more and eat more quickly. Really. The researchers thought that they might eat more rapidly because the processed foods required less chewing. All health and body weight markers sent along with the over-eating.
    The supplement shows the menus each day for the ultra-processed foods and for the non-processed foods. Check out the pictures of 7-days of food each. Really interesting is the snacks in each case. Lay’s potato chips, Planter’s peanuts, Keebler’s cheese ‘n peanut butter crackers, etc. vs apples, almonds, etc.
    As always in diet, the question is about organic vs. non-organic. First glance did not indicate organic on the healthy side?

  • Okay. Coconut oil really is good for you, no BS

    I was surprised to see what seemed like a reputable source questioning the good health values of coconut oil. See our blog post here.

    But I like this discussion much better by Dr Hyman. He discusses how coconut oil always has been good for you. The “battle against cholesterol” is generally a bogus war being won by billions of dollars in Staten drug pharma. Hyman discusses island countries that have no cancer and no heart disease, but eat tonnes of coconuts off the trees!

    In short, coconut oil increases your good cholesterol (HDL) and improves your cholesterol ratio. What it might do to total cholesterol is in no way relevant. It leads to heather outcomes and lower risk of heard disease.

    Dr Hyman complains that the FDA shows a bias toward the existing huge organizations, avoiding the most basic foundations of health and science. Hyman observes how they caution against cholesterol, without scientific foundation, yet allow sugary cereal and soft-drinks.  After watching them tap-dancing around the labeling for GMO, you gotta believe it. (GMO labeling is required, but it does not have to be on the purchase label, just off in space on a web site somewhere.)

    Doc H argues that coconut (oil) is still one of the most healthy and wholesome super foods in existence. He presents the evidence. He wrote the book. It looks like he’s got it right.

  • Bees in Peril. Costco Connection – July 2017

    The Costco Connection – July 2017 – Page 34-35:

    Bees in Peril: Working together to find a solution

    What to do when the canary (bees) stops singing (buzzing)?

    This is a great (short) overview of where we stand on bee front, written by Stephanie Ponder. (You gotta wonder if that’s a pseudonym!:0)

    This should worry people everywhere for soooo many reasons. The economic impact of a massive, or total loss of bees, is obvious. But bees are simply an indicator of our unhealthy impacts. It’s like amphibians (frogs). Frogs live in both the water and the land, so a little pollution in one or both, can totally wipe them out…. giving a strong indicator of what destruction a lot of pollution will do.

    Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is not so much the problem anymore. The big killer now is the vorroa mite.

    We still having a die-off of 40% of the bees each year, continuing to make a huge challenge for the beekeepers to maintain and replenish. This is hard to wrap the mind around. Imagine, that 40% of your cattle crop died each year. Beekeepers are going through some major gymnastics to try to replenish the hive(s) each year.

    The 4Ps are pests (vorroa mite), pathogens, pesticides and poor nutrition.

    Massive monoculture like almonds are providing poor nutrition (and no diversity). The article compares the mono-crop of flowers to a human diet of 100% steak. Farmers are introducing (or not killing) flowers and wild-flowers among the mono-crop. This also suggests that the monocrop itself is not so healthy.

    SustainZine has prior blogs related to CCD and healthy Bees. Think of bees as the Canary in the Coal Mine. When the canary dies, its a pretty strong hint that all is no longer well in the mine; when the bees die en mass, all is not well on the land.

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  • Coconut oil isn’t healthy. It’s never been healthy.

    Coconut oil isn’t healthy. It’s never been healthy.:
    by Ashley May.
    *** See our update pertaining to this article. It seems like Ms May, may have overstated her case against the coconut. See the update here… okay-coconut-oil-really-is-good-for-you. ***

    Like many such as the poor egg with its off-the-charts level of cholesterol, several foods have gotten a bad rap.

    Coconut oil got a bad rap, then got a good rap, and now it’s bad again.
    *** I’m sooo confused !!!! ***

    I have a Coconut book Bible on all the healthy benefits of coconuts and coconut oils, Coconut oil for health: 100 amazing and unexpected uses for coconut oil, by Brett Brandon, 2015.

    So coconut oil for weight loss is apparently not true. Like that’s never happened before!

    Related to the health benefits, it’s all about saturated fats. High levels of saturated fats can, and will, kill you.

    So aiming for uses of coconut oil outside your body, seems like a good thing. But ingesting it, not so much so.

    Honey might be a better homeopathic remedy for antibiotic, antiseptic cures and also allergies (local raw honey). Studies on honey curing allergies are inconclusive.

    Glad to clear this all up, like the Mississippi River during floodwaters,

    Well, gotta go put coconut oil on the scar on my knee that I’m trying to clear up.

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