Eating To Avoid Alzheimer’s

Here’s great news for those of us approaching midlife: sticking to a healthy diet at this crossroads could cut your risk of Alzheimer’s disease by 90 percent. That’s not a typo! Research from Finland showed that people who ate healthy foods consistently over 14 years actually reduced their Alzheimer’s risk by 90 percent. We know […]

Shaking Sugar

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Eating simple carbohydrates and sugar (in any form) keeps you addicted to sugar. And let’s face it many of these foods are the very ones we used to call fattening. Aside from their sky-high GI ranking, they also tend to be loaded with calories. Some examples: High GI foods include brown rice, white bread (which […]

More Fish, More Good Cholesterol

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Here’s some positive news from Finland, land of the midnight sun: eating lots of fatty fish can pump up your HDL, the “good” cholesterol believed to protect against heart disease and heart attacks. Not only did a fishy diet increase the number of HDL particles in the blood of participants in a study from the […]