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The truth about food — how to eat like an ape
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It’s pretty hard to work out what you can and can’t eat these days…
Which is not a good situation given the alarming rise of obesity and chronic illness in the US and UK.
Can eating like an ape improve your health?
Can natural nutrition reverse the effects of modern diets?
The BBC decided to find out and got some volunteers to go “back to nature”…
The “Evo Diet” experiment
Take one zoo enclosure in Devon, England — only meters away from the great apes. Put in some huts and tents. Add 9 people with dangerously high blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Add a dietician prepared ape diet and then simmer for 12 days… Read more
Is GM food safe to eat?
© v i p e z
Few health topics are more hotly debated than the GM food issue and for good reason.
Naturally consumers want to know if GM food is safe to eat.
But it’s not just consumers demanding action on GM food, many scientists are very concerned too…
Many feel GM foods are a time-bomb just waiting to go BANG. And God help us if it does.
In 2002, the Government of Zambia rejected an aid shipment because it contained GM corn. Seems you can’t even give the stuff away! This would be hilarious if it weren’t such a serious subject and lives weren’t at stake…
Scorpion genes in your corn
Do you really want scorpion genes in your corn? GM food is just one aspect of an increasing bleak picture of modern farming based on high yields and profits. The Biotech companies such as Monsanto developing GM foods aren’t doing it for the love of it is my guess… Read more
What is the best diet?
© Miss Sydney Marie
Once you start to take a serious interest in diet and nutrition, things can quickly seem to get very complex.
Now I’m the type of person who loves a puzzle but I know a lot of people just give up. It’s difficult to separate fact from fiction and in the field of nutrition, there are as many “best” diets as there are experts…
The hot issues
So, what are the hotly debated, confusing issues? Read more
What are the health benefits of drinking cranberry juice?
© TheDeliciousLife
Do you have a burning sensation you should be drinking cranberry juice? :-)
It’s an old wives tale — drink cranberry juice to cure a urinary infection. But is it actually true?
Well, sales are on the up and up. Seems the humble cranberry is in fashion at the moment and new products are appearing all the time… Read more
Health and longevity secrets of the okinawans
© Karen Walzer
Wouldn’t it be great if we had some really healthy role models?
People who live the healthiest, happiest lives so that we can look at them with soft focus and say “I want to be like that too?”
Well we can! There are lists of the healthiest nations in the world…
Japan usually tops these lists but actually, above Japan is the little island of Okinawa. It’s only a teeny dot on the world map…
The healthiest people in the world?
Okinawa is a lush subtropical island in the Pacific Ocean, made famous — at least in my mind — as the home of Mr. Myagi in The Karate Kid :-)
It has more people over a hundred years old than anywhere else on earth — as a percentage of the population. Well, no-one wants to live to be a centenarian if the last thirty years of their life is spent in miserable declining health… Read more
