Healthy eating tips include more than just avoiding “bad” foods.
Did you know that some medical and scientific studies have shown that adding certain foods to your diet may help to prevent or ease certain medical conditions?
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If you love high-salt fast foods and frozen foods, you may get more than high blood pressure. New research suggests a high-salt diet may give you ulcers and gastric cancer, too.
It sounds like something to get excited about.
Functional foods have added ingredients to boost your immunity or improve your health or quality of life.
There are margarines and even a new pizza to lower cholesterol, yogurts to improve digestion, and soft drinks and bottled water to energize you, give you more vitamins, or even help you to lose weight.
Here’s the problem…
Is it really possible that humans could eat any kind of fat they want without risking heart disease? Just by removing a certain gene?
Sounds good, but how does it taste? And does it really work?
In another example of functional foods — which are foods that provide a health benefit beyond basic nutrition — The Heart Healthy Road Pizza may soon roll out to your grocer’s shelves or your local pizzeria.
If they agree to distribute this new product.
New research suggests the heart isn’t responsible for high blood pressure. The brain is.
It could also kill you. Or just make you very sick. But it’s children who usually die.
So why don’t the experts issue a public warning about this danger?
As those of you who have I Love to Cheat know, Part I contains “The Blood Pressure Bonus” where I outline how I used foods to reduce my mother’s blood pressure to normal.
At the time I wrote I Love to Cheat, the blood pressure effects of drinking coffee were unclear.
So I want you to have the latest study results, which showed something no one expected…
Yes, in an alternate universe, I’ve been known to utter phrases like, “Fascinating,” and “He’s dead, Jim.”
But this can’t be a post about Star Trek. That would be illogical on a weight loss blog.
No, this is a post about…
In the 1950s, a doctor in Texas discovered a way to get out of his wheelchair and walk again.
Just by eating one food every day.
Maybe you’ve heard of his condition. Over 90% of its victims are men over 30. But women can suffer from it, too, especially if they take blood pressure medications.
Excess weight, especially obesity, is also a risk factor.
But with this disease, it’s important to lose weight gradually and ALWAYS under a doctor’s supervision. Any kind of severe dieting can actually make it worse.
So what is this illness and what’s the supposedly magic food that got the Texas doctor out of his wheelchair?
