This past weekend, my son set up a Cotton Candy stand during our neighborhood block party. Cotton Candy, of course, is spun sugar with food coloring. And I don’t have a problem with “sugar.” Yeah, you heard me right: I don’t have a problem with eating sugar! I don’t mean we should have all sugar, […]
Category: Nutrition in the news
Are you Addicted to Fast Food?
David Kessler, the Harvard-trained doctor, lawyer, medical school dean and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration who won billions against the tobacco industry during the Clinton years, has trained his razor-sharp focus on the restaurant industry and how they are making us overeat. Yeah, you read that right: restaurants intentionally add things to […]
Would you bathe your baby in formaldehyde?
Last month the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and partner organizations released a report revealing that dozens of popular bath products for babies and kids contain at least two hazardous contaminants: 1,4-dioxane and formaldehyde. Both of these chemicals cause cancer in animals, and formaldehyde is also known to cause skin rashes in people who are sensitive […]
Reducing Health Care Costs
Kaiser Health recently conducted a poll of American households to see what kind of impact the economy is having on health-care expenditures. Looks like more than half of us are forgoing expensive Western medical treatments as we look for ways to save money. More than one-third of Americans are now relying more on home remedies […]
Vitamin D: The wonder drug?
What can reduce rates of cancer, diabetes, and auto-immune diseases like multiple sclerosis? If you’ve been following the news lately, you might be giving a resounding cheer for Vitamin D. Dr. Oz, Oprah’s favorite physician, sounds off in support of this vital nutrient, though he’s not the only one to be on the Vitamin D […]
