Food | Healthy Living Talk - Part 3

STUDY: Eating Out Is Bad For Your Health As Well As Your Wallet, Increased Exposure to Dangerous Chemicals

Although sometimes eating out just feels like a necessary indulgence, multiple studies have shown conclusively that the fat and sugar in fast food are enough to take a massive toll on our health. Now a new study has found that eating out often – whether it be at restaurants, fast food joints or cafeterias – […]

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Study: Teaching Children About The Causes Of Obesity Helps Reduce It. So Why Aren’t Schools Teaching Kids About Junk Foods?

Could health education help combat childhood obesity? That question is what Tabitha Blasingame of the Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital sought to answer in her paper. On determining whether or not health education could contribute to better food and lifestyle choices, she discovered that it very well could.

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Waitress Overcomes Psoriasis After Adopting a Vegan, Gluten-Free Diet 

Ms Belshaw, who suffers from the guttate form of psoriasis, credits her vegan, gluten-free and mostly raw diet for helping her keep her condition under control which she has suffered from since she was 13 years old.

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Brain-damaging Neurotoxic Pesticide Found in Hundreds of Foods: EPA Allowed

If you thought that buying organic fruits and vegetables was a waste of money, you might want to think again. Test results released by the FDA have shown the presence of a neurotoxic pesticide known as chlorpyrifos in samples taken from more than 300 different foods.

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Teacher Who Nearly Died from Heart Attack Is Now Off all Meds After Going Vegan, Now Inspiring Others

Doug Schmidt, 59, is a teacher in Rochester, New York, who suffered a near-fatal heart attack 10 years ago prompting him to become vegan, switching to a plant based diet. He has since lost 60 pounds and is off all heart medications and inspiring others to take control of their health, and has recently been […]

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Eat More Fruits and Veggies to Reduce Risk of Nearly all Disease, Research Reports

A team of scientists from Imperial College London pulled together all the world’s available population studies that document fruit and vegetable intake. The ninety-five studies included two million people. Their findings, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, suggest that disease has an inverse relationship with nutrition.

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UK Organic Food Sales Booming, Outstripping All Other Food Sales

In an era when surgeons in the UK are performing a record number of diabetic ulcer-related amputations, the growth in sales of organic foods is outstripping the sales growth of all conventional foods, a good trend.

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