5 Food Safety Tips

December 2, 2011

We’ve passed Thanksgiving and are well into the holiday season, and with all the food preparation and leftovers hanging out in your refrigerator you need to keep these 5 food safety tips in mind. First, be sure to read the labels on any food items you are buying. Lots of folks have allergies and you [...]

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Aspartame renamed AminoSweet

November 16, 2011

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, and a poison by any other name would be just as dangerous. And that’s today’s message in a nutshell. There have been many reports on the side effects of artificial sweeteners and aspartame in particular. One side effect of some artificial sweeteners is that they [...]

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Common Food Allergies Update

November 11, 2011

One of my readers commented on the last post regarding food allergies. Kay said According to the statistics the most common are these 8 products: – milk – eggs – peanuts (groundnuts) – nuts from trees (including Brazil nuts, hazelnuts, almonds and walnuts) – fish – shellfish (including mussels, crab and shrimps) – soya – [...]

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Common Food Allergies

November 1, 2011

Something that I haven’t really posted about is food allergies. There are a lot of common food allergies that people seem to be mostly oblivious about, but lately I’ve been reading about a few that are really interesting. (or annoying, I guess it depends on if it affects you.) What spurred this post on is [...]

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Anti Inflammation Foods and Arthritis Pain Relief

October 10, 2011

It has been very interesting to see a lot of articles surfacing on arthritis and an anti-inflammatory diet. There have been studies going on for many years about the impact of diet on arthritis pain relief. Like many other things it seems that eating whole foods and eliminating (or at least reducing) processed foods has [...]

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FDA Food Pyramid Replaced, Harvard Healthy Eating Plate Competes

September 30, 2011

For many years we have heard about the “Food Pyramid” (sometimes also known as the FDA Food Pyramid) and that was the guideline for healthy eating. Times change and so do attitudes towards what constitutes “healthy eating.” This also really depends who you talk to at any given moment. First a bit of history. The [...]

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I write blogs and provide blog content

September 26, 2011

For anyone reading who does not know I have recently moved from Reading Pennsylvania to Charleston South Carolina. The move was planned for many years and has finally become reality. We’re quite happy here and have already started jumping into theater with me working backstage for South Pacific last month and both Deb and I [...]

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Alcohol and Cancer Linked in Studies

September 21, 2011

I am a big fan of resveratrol, which is the antioxidant that is found in red wine. And I cheered when studies came out that linked drinking red wine (in limited quantities) to longer healthier lives. But I would be remiss if I didn’t also report on studies that have linked alcohol consumption with cancer. [...]

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7 Minute Muscle

September 18, 2011

I don’t very often openly promote other people’s products. Actually most of the time I may mention something like the Zumba DVD’s or “Sweating to the Oldies” or even the P90X but I don’t try to sell them to you because that’s not what this site is about; it’s about information. And to be honest [...]

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Fast Path to Better Health

September 15, 2011

One of the fastest ways to have better health is something that people rarely think about and unfortunately some people ignore on a regular basis is dental care. Now I am not talking about regular visits to a dentist, although that should be happening at least once a year, but I am talking about brushing [...]

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