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Posts tagged with health
What to Eat and What to Avoid at Chain Restaurants →
Eat This, Not That! put 66 major chain restaurants under the nutritional microscope—so that you and your family can continue to eat out, but do so knowing the types of insider tips and savvy strategies that can help melt fat all year long.
Burger King puts ~160 calories of mayo on just about anything. Wow. (via.)
How to Get Cancer: Move to the United States →
The risk of cancer for Hispanics living in Florida is 40 percent higher than for those who live in their native countries, a puzzling new study finds.
Hispanics taken only as an example of course, this apparently applies to any social group living in the US which can be compared to a social group outside the US.
I simply love the graphic execution of this ad and the idea behind it. (Via omegawm, via Dylan Collard)
8 Great Family-Friendly Foods that Help Fight Cancer →
I had never understood before how vital food was for protecting the body from sickness and disease.
Cheryl Crow on the importance of how and what we eat and how it affects us and our children, and our health long term. (via)
Get (Real) Food, Not Vitamin Supplements, Says New Study →
According to this study, it may be bad for you to take vitamins while being physically active; vitamins being those in pill or other form, it is still highly recommended to get them through natural sources — i.e. fruits and vegetables.
The article offers some additional points on why the intake of pill–formed vitamins could be bad for you, and one stroke me by surprise, that the intake of vitamin E and Beta Carotene pills — usually recommended to vegans and vegetarians — could increase mortality.
