Nutrition News Overload–Guidelines on What Not To Believe …Or Vice Versa
Regular readers know that NBN is constantly writing with great distress about poor reporting on supplements and the studies associated with them. It’s like asking your 78-year-old mother what she thinks about the latest I-Pod. She doesn’t know, doesn’t care and doesn’t want to. But reporters should do better, don’t you think. Well lately some […]
Got Milk Gets Bashed As Book Suggests Dairy Leading Cause of Osteoperosis
A new book suggests that milk may be a leading cause of osteoporosis. The Milk Imperative by Russell Eaton looks a numerous studies all of which suggest milk isn’t the health food all those cute got milk mustache advertisements want us to believe. Most notably, countries with the highest dairy product consumption, such as the […]
Best Book of the 2005: Generation RX
Read this book and some things start to make sense. Things like those obviously misleading commercials on television and in magazines. You know the ones I’m talking about. Those that tout the latest drug that makes you think that life before treatment was a living hell but after treatment its just one endless dance in […]
Nation’s Food Banks Suffer Shortages: Katrina Diverts Donations
A recent story in USA Today noted a dramatic decline in donations to Food Banks across the U.S. According to a study by America’s Second Harvest (the national network of food banks) the decline is linked to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Donations to Katrina are leaving food banks across the nation with bare shelves. […]
Who Owns Whom? Or A Fruit Loop And An Organic Oat Flake Walked Into A Bar
Wondering if the same folks who make Fruit Loops make your favorite organic cereal? Or if that energy bar you buy before heading to Pilates class is made by the same company that pumps out Kit Kats? Check out the Organic Consumers Association corporate ownership chart. While a rapid and dizzying rate of mergers and […]
Lets Fatten Up The Youngsters: Whatever Happenened to the Dietary N Word?
For adults, some of us take time off around the holidays. Time off that is to eat lots of stuff we otherwise do our best to avoid: high calorie, high fat goodies, that offer little in the way of the N-word–nutrition, we mean. Well a report by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies […]
Website Review: TeaTrends Has Us Sipping At the Information Superhighway
Frankly we prefer coffee but www.teatrends.com is a site that not only had us sipping from its well-designed and informative sections but also wondering if we really hated Earl Grey as much as we think. After trying a cup, we decided we still do. Nonetheless we love this site. Teatrends provides a terrific blend of […]
New England Journal Of Medicine–Merck Committed Fraud
The November New England Journal of Medicine’s report on Vioxx examines the research and concludes that big pharma giant Merck committed scientific fraud, selectively and knowingly deleted clinical data that showed Vioxx to be dangerous. If we sound like we’re gloating we apologize. But we’re ready for a new model of healthcare, one where there […]
Whole Foods battles Wild Oats in Louisville
While the 2nd annual Levine Thanksgiving family reunion was absent of any fights, in fact it was filled with fond reminiscences of old friends, favorite places, family pets and resulted in nothing more harmful than falling asleep in front of the television and some serious overeating (more turkey please…damn that stuffing is good, would you […]
Green Tea Flexes its Muscle Again
Green Tea Flexes its Muscle Again Yet another study has shown the powerful benefits of the antioxidants in green tea. This time researchers at the University of South Florida have found that green tea may offer another potential health benefit –protecting the brain against the ravages of Alzheimer’s disease. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/09/050928234820.htm So try drinking a cup […]
