Shaking Sugar
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
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 […]
My Brain Made Me Eat It!
A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that 8.4 percent of 134,000 women enrolled in the long-running Nurses’ Health Study may be addicted to food. The researchers from the University of Michigan and the Harvard School of Public Health reported that these were women, ages 45 and 64, whose addictions were […]
