You Are What You Eat
A 2003 issue of Time International reports on 41-year-old Amanda Jodhpuria, who had bad luck with lithium, and sought out a nutritionist who diagnosed a B vitamins and fatty acids deficiency, which prompted her to change her diet ...
Diet and Obesity
In the 2004 documentary movie, "Supersize Me," film-maker Morgan Spurlock makes himself a human guinea pig by eating nothing but McDonald’s fare for one month and reducing his normal exercise. ...
Sweet and Sour
Are you worth your weight in sugar? The average American eats more than 125 pounds of white sugar a year, comprising 25 percent of our daily calorie intake. ...
Don't Drink the Diet Coke
Some time in 2000 or 2001, I received a forwarded email from "Nancy Markle," which set out to document the dangers of the artificial sweetener, aspartame. ...
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
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remember, the fat in guacamole/avos is good for you. not so much the cheeses and sour cream. grapeseed oil is even better than olive. canola is highly processed and may contain petroleum by-product residue. avoid cottonseed oil unless organic. cotton is imbued with more pesticides than any safe foods.
Thanks for the reminder, Nan. I need to update the article. Since moving to southern CA, avocados have become my secret weapon in my cooking.
Coke changed the formula for Diet Coke in 2005 and now uses Splenda, a natural derivative of sugar. Sucralose (Splenda) is derived from natural sugar. 95% of all sugar-free candies use Splenda as a surgar replacement because the AMA cosidered it to be the safest sugar substitute available to the consumer. Aspertame (NutraSweet) results in the substance of wood alcohol and that can result in poor physical and mental health if consumed in great quantities. Of course, of you are consuming great quantities of coke (or ANY diet drink for that matter) you need to see a psychiatrist or other mental health professional.
I have tried to reduce my sugar intake by replacing sugar in my coffee with aspartame and, when drinking soft drinks, going for the sugar-free variety. So I read this article with some interest, especially since a colleague noted that aspartame has been implicated in depression, for which I am being treated with Sertralin. However, I also note that the dose used in the Walton study in 1993 of 30 mg of aspartame per kg of body weight translates, in my case, into 2,700 mg a day. A single aspartame "tablet" weighs 8 mg, which means I would need to ingest 337 of them in a day to achieve the test dosage. I don't know how much aspartame is in a Diet Coke, for example, but it's hard to imagine it would be anywhere near this level. So the question is, does this study tell us anything useful?
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