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Chef Dina Knight explains how a healthy diet helped her father recover from a quadruple bypass.
© Agence France-Presse/Guillaume BaptisteHong Kong officials have found traces of cocaine in cans of Red Bull, a few days after Taiwanese authorities confiscated close to 18,000 cases of the popular energy drink
Officials at the Centre for Food Safety said a laboratory analysis found tiny amounts of the illegal drug in samples of "Red Bull Cola," "Red Bull Sugar-free" and "Red Bull Energy Drink", a spokesman said.
The drink has now been taken off the shelves of major supermarkets, the spokesman said in a statement issued late Monday. He added that the amount of cocaine found in the drinks posed little health danger.
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We're so used to getting orange juice 365 days of the year that it may come as news that even Tropicana Pure Premium has a season. But it does. From March until June the Valencia is in its prime in Florida, and even Californians will admit that Florida grows a superior Valencia. The state produces a few other varieties for juicing. The Hamlin, which peaks in late fall, is the most heavily planted. But anyone who has anything to do with the manufacture of commercial orange juice knows that nothing compares to Florida Valencia juice.
© UnknownGenetically modified foods are endangering our health
The critical information here is largely taken with permission from an excellent article written by respected health researcher Jeffrey Smith on this key topic so vital to our health.
Should you be consuming canola oil? The FDA seems to think so, allowing canola labels to claim it supports heart health and reduces the risk of coronary heart disease. Even Whole Foods Markets is on board with canola oil, and most foods on their hot bar are swimming in it. Proponents point out that canola is inexpensive, tastes good, and has the lowest saturated fat content of any common edible oil. Some health experts suggest a daily consumption of 1 1/2 tablespoons of canola oil. But evidence is mounting that canola oil actually promotes heart disease and is a hoax on the public rivaling the promotion of margarine. Leading experts on oils and fats see canola oil as a victory for a food processing industry that will not be happy until all traditional, real foods have been replaced by imitation foods.
No wonder Americans call television the "boob tube". Infants vocalise less and hear fewer words from nearby adults when the TV is on, a new study of recorder-toting infants suggests.
"There's no question that human voice and human words are what babies need," says Dimitri Christakis, a paediatrician at the University of Washington in Seattle, who led the study. "The data are not yet conclusive about the fact that television is harmful, but they continue to mount."
Christakis' team equipped 329 infants, aged between 2 and 48 months, with lightweight recorders that captured every noise they heard in a 24-hour period. A computer program - shown in a previous study to be 82 per cent accurate - then determined whether each sound came from the infant, an adult or the television.
The analysis showed that for every hour of television an infant is exposed to - they don't understand television programmes, Christakis says - he or she hears 770 fewer words from adults, on average, a 7 per cent reduction. Infants watching TV also utter fewer "googoos" and "gagas" and interact less with adults than children whose parents use the off switch more enthusiastically.
"There's no question that human voice and human words are what babies need," says Dimitri Christakis, a paediatrician at the University of Washington in Seattle, who led the study. "The data are not yet conclusive about the fact that television is harmful, but they continue to mount."
Christakis' team equipped 329 infants, aged between 2 and 48 months, with lightweight recorders that captured every noise they heard in a 24-hour period. A computer program - shown in a previous study to be 82 per cent accurate - then determined whether each sound came from the infant, an adult or the television.
The analysis showed that for every hour of television an infant is exposed to - they don't understand television programmes, Christakis says - he or she hears 770 fewer words from adults, on average, a 7 per cent reduction. Infants watching TV also utter fewer "googoos" and "gagas" and interact less with adults than children whose parents use the off switch more enthusiastically.
When genetically modified foods were first introduced, the biotech industry hailed tomatoes that were frost resistant and round-up ready crops. Now, there is a further development in biotech that has received little attention in the mainstream media. Serious environmental and health concerns still surround GM food safety, but new technologies are being developed to turn foods into vaccine delivery systems. While there may be positive angles to this technology, we must take into account the long term goals of the establishment, which is already invested in the research and development of edible vaccine technology.
Boosting levels of vitamin D could cut the incidence of breast cancer by a quarter, bowel cancer by a third and it should be offered to the population as part of a public health drive, scientists say.
The finding is based on a review of 2,750 research studies involving vitamin D, sometimes called "bottled sunshine", which show that taking daily supplements of the vitamin could do more for cancer prevention than a library full of lifestyle advice.
The finding is based on a review of 2,750 research studies involving vitamin D, sometimes called "bottled sunshine", which show that taking daily supplements of the vitamin could do more for cancer prevention than a library full of lifestyle advice.
New York - Teenage boys who regularly eat fish may be doing their brains some good, a new study suggests.
Swedish researchers found that among nearly 5,000 15-year-old boys they surveyed, those who ate fish more than once per week tended to score higher on intelligence tests three years later.
The findings, published in the journal Acta Pediatrica, add to evidence that fish may indeed be brain food.
Swedish researchers found that among nearly 5,000 15-year-old boys they surveyed, those who ate fish more than once per week tended to score higher on intelligence tests three years later.
The findings, published in the journal Acta Pediatrica, add to evidence that fish may indeed be brain food.
Comment: Avoiding toxins and eating healthy food are two major steps on the path to healing.
However a vegan diet as advocated in this video is an approach amongst many others and might not suit everybody's physiology.