Beware: ‘Clean Eating’ Could Put You on the Road to Osteoporosis
It often seems that it’s only a matter of time — decades, years, and sometimes even months — before something that was widely cheered as a healthy choice, upon closer scientific scrutiny turns out to be markedly More...
Top 5 ways to lose weight
Have your button down shirts started to feel a little too snug? Are you stressing out about putting on your bathing suit this weekend? Whatever be your motivation, the main thing is that you are convinced about More...
France bans ‘unlimited’ soda refills in move to battle obesity
France has banned restaurants from offering unlimited refills of soda and sugary drinks, their latest bid to decrease the rise in the nation’s obesity rate. Hotels, restaurants and school cafeterias will More...
Different Kinds of Water and Its Importance
Do you know the differences in water? First you have storm water. This comes from melting snows and from rain storms. When this stormwater comes into contact with materials like solvents, heavy metals, gas, and More...
Workplace Wellness Starts with Healthy Choices
Employers may provide an excellent benefit through workplace wellness, but the small business with 15 to 25 employees, for example, may be at a disadvantage when it comes to footing the bill for an effective program. More...
USDA spent $10 million to rescue Michelle Obama’s ‘food deserts,’ five years later and no science
Back in 2011, the Obama administration doubled the money the USDA will provide to promote farmer’s markets in rural and urban areas across America. $10 million was poured into the latest Michelle Obama “healthy More...
Coca-cola, Pepsi, Nestle linked to bribe of scientists to defend impact of sugar
Coca-Cola and many scientists came under fire Monday after millions of dollars in donations to a nonprofit fighting against diet links to obesity were made public. Global Energy Balance Network spreads the message More...
New Study: plastic water bottle ban led to more waste, increased sugary drink users
A new study sheds light on the effects of the bottled water ban at the University of Vermont, revealing an unexpected series of results. Students may have complied with the ban on plastic bottles, but picked up More...
Judge shoots down NY ban on large sodas, ‘sugary drink ban’
A day before New York CIty’s unprecedented soda ban was set to begin, a judge has rejected the restrictions, calling the initiative “arbitrary and capricious.” Since its inception, the controversial More...
Michael Bloomberg advises President Obama to ignore Congress on guns
Mayor Michael BloombergImage/NBC Video Screen Shot The New York City Mayor, a man ripe with experience in the power of the executive and the power to ban whatever he doesn’t like, Michael Bloomberg offered More...
Too much coca-cola led to Natasha Harris’s death, authorities say
Photo/Mk2010 via wikicommons Experts say a New Zealand woman’s “2-gallon-a-day” Coca-Cola habit probably contributed to her death. The report prompted the soft drink giant to note that even water More...
