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POPSEating healthfully can increase your food bill tenfold, says Ag Dept. study More evidence that overhauling the U.S. health insurance system is only a small step towards making Americans healthier. If, as the study's authors conclude, " resh vegetables and fruits are rapidly becoming luxury goods" (since their prices are most strongly influenced by inflation), then we have a structural nutritional problem built into our food system. This piece is from March 2008.
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POPSHow to live an active life to age 114 Jeanne Calment ate bakers chocolate, took up fencing at age 85 and rode a bicycle until age 100. She was active until age 114, smoked until age 117 and died at age 122. Note: 1 kilo = 2.2lbs Jeanne Calmet lived to age 122 and was active until age 110. Her health deteriorated after she fractured her femur and became confined to a wheel chair: her She smoked until the age of 117.
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POPSFood Songs Ever since I've been on this diet people are saying I'm obsessed with food. I'm not, but any time I switch on to the local radio station they're playing a song that reminds me how hungry I am. This morning there was the following - (Please add any food songs that I've missed!)
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POPSReturning to Health Supporting Diet of Traditional Navajo Foods My research has shown me that people who have lived in the same ecological niche for 500-1000 years "adapt" physically and culturally to a diet and exercise regime that supports good health for that niche. Relatively rapid change in diet and exercise, unbalances their system and produces ill effects. They are right on the diet part but they also need to look at how much daily exercise a typical child and adult got 100 or more years ago and figure out how to get - grin - people moving again and not doing as so many of us do - watch tv and sit behind a computer instead of taking a walk or a run.
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POPSAfraid of Winter Depression? Go Mediterranean The role of the overall dietary pattern may be more important than the effect of single components. It is plausible that the synergistic combination of a sufficient provision of omega-three fatty acids together with other natural unsaturated fatty acids and antioxidants from olive oil and nuts, flavonoids and other phytochemicals from fruit and other plant foods and large amounts of natural folates and other B vitamins in the overall Mediterranean dietary pattern may exert a fair degree of protection against depression.
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POPSThe The "The Beat(en) Generation" And our youth, oh youth, are being seduced By the greedy hands of politics and half truths The beaten generation, the beaten generation Reared on a diet of prejudice and misinformation The beaten generation, the beaten generation Open your eyes, open your imagination We're being sedated by the gasoline fumes And hypnotised by the satellites Into believing what is good and what is right You may be worshipping the temples of mammon Or lost in the prisons of religion But can you still walk back to happiness When you've nowhere left to run? If they send in the special police To deliver us from evil and keep us from peace Then won't the words sit ill upon their tongues When they tell us justice is being done That freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun? The beaten generation, the beaten generation Reared on a diet of prejudice and misinformation The beaten generation, the beaten generation Open your eyes, open your imagination
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POPSBritains forgotten children
MORE than 150 children in Glasgow were found to be suffering from malnutrition after being screened for the condition. A pilot study found that 10% of more than 1,000 children tested on admission to hospital had the condition as a result of poor diet or chronic illness. The pilot was held for a new screening system that has been developed in the city. The tool, believed to be the first of its kind in Europe, can identify children aged from one year who are suffering from malnutrition or are at risk of developing it. It was created by dietary and medical experts at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill and is based on a simple scoring system. Doctors say the Paediatric Yorkhill Malnutrition Score (PYMS) could be adapted for use in the community to help identify children at risk of malnutrition or obesity which puts them at risk in later life of cancer, heart disease and type 2 diabetes. A pilot of 1571 carried out at the hospital showed that 157 were suffering
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POPSTraditional Diet and Culture Can Help Oneidas Defeat Diabetes Their plan was simply to use corn as central part of their culture. They will find that traditional food combined with traditional amount of exercise will give them and their children a healthier life. Traditional peoples around the world "adapted" to ways of living that kept them healthy. When they shift to a modern diet and much lower level of physical activity, the amount of diabetes and heart disease skyrockets.
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