• Special Needs Children and Obesity

    Updated: 2011-11-08 04:09:12
    I have heard a lot of talk about obesity in children. Advice to prevent that ranges from "feed your child better foods" to "turn off the video games". Parents of kids who have certain special needs require more tools than those pieces of advice.

  • To Cheez-It or Not?

    Updated: 2011-11-07 14:44:10
    Cheez-it has been around for decades. The salty cheesy crackers are popular with kids and adults alike. Originally sold by an independent company call Sunshine, Cheez-it has been part of the Kellogg’s lineup for the last 10 years. And they’re made with 100% REAL cheese If you’re laughing, don’t. There actually is such a thing [...]

  • Women Coming with Salad

    Updated: 2011-11-07 06:13:26
    Laurie and Debbie say: At the beginning of this year, The Hairpin identified a trend of advertisements that show women, by themselves, eating salad and laughing, grinning, generally having quite a good time. Sociological Images picked it up, reproduced some of the photos, and made some brief comments about advertising designed to “convince you that [...]

  • Biscoff Spread – NOT a Viable Peanut Butter Alternative

    Updated: 2011-11-06 00:40:55
    Biscoff Spread has been slowly penetrating the US market using our attraction to anything foreign as a sign of quality: EUROPE’S ALTERNATIVE TO PEANUT BUTTER The sweet (and yes, tasty) spread touts the following: Biscoff Spread is made with Original Lotus Biscoff Cookies. The main ingredient is Biscoff – made with over 57% Biscoff cookies. It [...]

  • Get Ready for the Resveratrol Deluge

    Updated: 2011-11-04 15:13:21
    Marketers have, for years, made billions of dollars from consumers’ never-ending quest for the quick and easy fix to bad eating habits. Acai berry snack, drinks and pills are just one recent example. It seems like the next wave of health-promoting products will be based on resveratrol, the antioxidant responsible for red wine’s health halo. [...]

  • How Frequently Should You Eat?

    Updated: 2011-11-04 13:38:00
    Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG How Frequently Should You Eat November 4, 2011 07:38 by

  • Love Salted Chocolate Caramels? Try This Healthy Candy Alternative

    Updated: 2011-11-03 15:30:35
    This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl No one is ever going to accuse Snack Girl of not loving a WEE bit of chocolate. Today, I want to you to introduce you to my new love – a dried fig, dipped in dark chocolate, with a little bit of coarse salt shaken [...]

  • Fat-free Salad Dressings are Ridiculous. Here’s Why

    Updated: 2011-11-02 00:21:57
    A salad without the dressing is like a _________ without ___________ [Fill in the blank] A good dressing helps accentuate flavors, helps some of those greens go down easier – and as you’ll see in a minute – improves the nutritional value of the salad. If we’re to judge by the hundreds of varieties of [...]

  • Diabetes Pre-diabetes

    Updated: 2011-11-01 09:39:36
    Dr Hyman.com Private Practice About Mark For Practitioners Get Dr . Hyman’s Weekly Newsletter DrHyman.com Physician Advocate Educator All medicine comes down to this : Find out what’s bugging you get rid of it . Find out what you need get it . The body does the . rest Dr Mark Hyman , MD Functional Medicine , Books Supplements Home 7 Keys to Ultrawellness Health Library Health Quizzes Articles Contact New Research Finds Diabetes Can Be Reversed I have recently spent more time in drugs stores than I would like helping my sister on her journey through and hopefully to the other side of cancer . Rite Aid , CVS and Read more . Tweet Print This Post Email to friend Pharmageddon : America’s Top Selling Drug Cause Diabetes IF ALL DOCTORS followed the latest cholesterol treatment guidelines , and

  • Insight for healthcare marketers: social commerce trend report

    Updated: 2011-11-01 01:55:28
    Great information for healthcare marketers from outside category business leaders about what works and what’s next in social media. Each year, thought leaders from major brands with expertise in social gather at the Social Commerce Summit, hosted by Bazaarvoice, to present the trends that shape best practices in social media. The 2011 Summit included speakers [...]

  • Pop Quiz: Can You Identify This Alien Vegetable? [Halloween Special]

    Updated: 2011-10-31 00:17:58
    Good Morning. And Happy Halloween!! What is this Vegetable? Hint: This is not an alien. It actually grows on earth, and even in the US. What you need to know: This is Brassica oleracea Gemmifera, more commonly known as … Brussels sprout. A cousin of the cabbage family, many of us might recall this veggie from [...]

  • 8 Nutrition Tips for Road Warriors

    Updated: 2011-10-30 13:28:13
    Here’s a note we got from Carrie, a Fooducate community member. LOVE your blog and your app! I’m so glad I found you — I don’t follow every “rule” every time, but it is important to me that the vast majority of the food I eat be — err, actually food. I travel for business [...]

  • Study shows what kids eat at McDonald’s

    Updated: 2011-10-29 01:15:27
    This is a guest blog post by Dr. Ayala Laufer-Cahana M.D. Eating out, and especially eating at fast-food restaurants, is considered a risk factor for obesity, poor diet and chronic diseases. Yet eating fast food is a major American habit: At least one quarter of adults eat fast food daily, as do 25 – 30 percent of [...]

  • “The Dirty Dozen”: Fact, Fiction, or a bit of both?

    Updated: 2011-10-28 15:22:00
    : , , Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG The Dirty Dozen” : Fact , Fiction , or a bit of

  • How Becoming a Mother Has Changed the Way I Eat

    Updated: 2011-10-28 01:11:11
    This is a guest blog post by Alice Callahan, PhD  I have a PhD in Nutrition. Yet, spending all those years in the classroom and the lab, investigating minute mechanisms of nutrient metabolism, didn’t do any favors for my own diet. In fact, my grad school friends and I joked that our own nutrition was [...]

  • Dinner is a Date with the Doctor 5 Asian Superfoods

    Updated: 2011-10-27 07:48:42
    : Dr Hyman.com Private Practice About Mark For Practitioners Get Dr . Hyman’s Weekly Newsletter DrHyman.com Physician Advocate Educator You are the CEO of your own wellness . You need to take back your health from the disease-care . system Dr Mark Hyman , MD Functional Medicine , Books Supplements Home 7 Keys to Ultrawellness Health Library Health Quizzes Articles Contact You are here : Home Dinner is a Date with the Doctor : 5 Asian Superfoods Dinner is a Date with the Doctor : 5 Asian Superfoods Tweet Print This Post Email to friend M edicine doesn’t always come in a pill . In fact some of the most powerful medicines are delicious and can be found at your local supermarket or farmacy . Healing foods have been used for centuries in Asia as part of the cuisine . In Asia food and medicine

  • DrHyman.com Dinner is a Date with the Doctor 5 Asian Superfoods Print

    Updated: 2011-10-27 07:48:39
    : DrHyman.com http : drhyman.com Dinner is a Date with the Doctor : 5 Asian Superfoods Posted By Mark Hyman , MD On October 26, 2011 6:07 pm In Articles,UltraWellness Library No Comments 1 M edicine doesn’t always come in a pill . In fact some of the most powerful medicines are delicious and can be found at your local supermarket or farmacy . Healing foods have been used for centuries in Asia as part of the cuisine . In Asia food and medicine are often the same . thing Here are five foods you may never have heard of but can be found at most Asian markets and even places like Whole Foods . Try them . You might be surprised by their unique and extraordinary good taste . And they may help you lose weight , reverse diabetes , lower cholesterol and prevent . cancer Konjac : The Asian Super

  • Healthcare marketing – a basic guide to Twitter

    Updated: 2011-10-24 02:08:36
    We all know the name, but truth be told, are not all in the know about this microblogging site. So here’s a great read. A compact, 32 page e-book, Twitter Business Guide: Communication and Marketing, written by Jean-Christophe Barre’ and Dr. Andreas Schroeter. It covers everything from what and why and starting out, to understanding [...]

  • Food Day 2011

    Updated: 2011-10-21 15:17:00
    Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG Food Day 2011 October 21, 2011 08:17 by Rachel Huber MPH

  • Love Your Body Day: Beautiful Fat Nudes

    Updated: 2011-10-20 05:13:07
    Laurie Says: Today, the National Organization for Women Foundation celebrates its 14th annual Love Your Body Day — a day when women of all sizes, colors, ages and abilities come together to celebrate self-acceptance and to promote positive body image. So, some beautiful fat nudes for Love Your Body Day. .. .. .. .. This [...]

  • Why You Should Not Stop Taking Your Vitamins

    Updated: 2011-10-19 12:48:50
    Dr Hyman.com Store Private Practice About Mark For Practitioners Get Dr . Hyman’s Weekly Newsletter DrHyman.com Physician Advocate Educator You are the CEO of your own wellness . You need to take back your health from the disease-care . system Dr Mark Hyman , MD Functional Medicine , Books Supplements Home 7 Keys to Ultrawellness Store Health Library Health Quizzes Articles Contact You are here : Home Why You Should Not Stop Taking Your Vitamins Why You Should Not Stop Taking Your Vitamins Tweet Print This Post Email to friend D o vitamins kill people How many people have died from taking vitamins Should you stop your vitamins It depends . To be exact , it depends on the quality of the science , and the very nature of scientific research . It is very hard to know things exactly through

  • DrHyman.com Why You Should Not Stop Taking Your Vitamins Print

    Updated: 2011-10-19 12:48:44
    DrHyman.com http : drhyman.com Why You Should Not Stop Taking Your Vitamins Posted By Dr . Hyman Staff On October 18, 2011 3:34 pm In Articles,UltraWellness Library No Comments 1 D o vitamins kill people How many people have died from taking vitamins Should you stop your vitamins It depends . To be exact , it depends on the quality of the science , and the very nature of scientific research . It is very hard to know things exactly through science . The waste bin of science is full of fallen heroes like Premarin , Vioxx and Avandia 2 which alone was responsible for 47,000 excess cardiac deaths since it was introduced in 1999 That brings us to the latest apparent casualty , vitamins . The recent media hype around vitamins is a classic case of drawing the wrong conclusions from good . science

  • Healthcare – shifts are about to hit the fan

    Updated: 2011-10-18 01:45:23
    “The doctor knows best.” No, your consumer actually knows best. And what they want is a mutually dependent, beneficial relationship. So begins a good article in Bloomberg Businessweek called Shift Happens from G. Michael Maddock and Raphael Louis Viton of Maddock Douglas innovation consultancy. Their premise is that at critical times in history, business sectors go [...]

  • Supporting Our Elders' Health Renaissance: An Audio with Macha!

    Updated: 2011-10-15 05:08:03
    Supporting Our Elders' Health Renaissance: An Audio with Macha!

  • Healthy Halloween?

    Updated: 2011-10-14 14:56:00
    Home BLOG LIBRARY TOOLS OUR CAUSE CONTACT What We Stand For The Stand Up Eat site is an educational and participatory site to help people balance the calories they eat with the calories they burn each day by making active living and healthy eating choices . MORE . CALORIE NEEDS What is your calorie need JOIN THE BURN WHAT'S IN Calories in eating . Articles , downloads , and links to help you make the most of the calories that you eat . Check out the latest resources in our What's In , Healthy Eating Library WHAT'S OUT Calories out physical activity . Articles , downloads , nbsp and links to help you find ways to stand up and move more . Check out the latest resources in our What's Out , Active Living Library THE COOPER INSTITUTE BLOG Healthy Halloween October 14, 2011 07:56 by Rachel Huber

  • Health Transcending Borders, Language, and Culture

    Updated: 2011-10-14 04:14:48
    In 2002 I partnered with Field to Plate  to bring 30 nutrition and foodservice professionals to Challans, France to look at an innovative school lunch program designed to tackle France’s growing childhood obesity epidemic head-on. Our American group stared in disbelief as a roomful of kindergartners enjoyed a leisurely 45 minute lunch of 3 courses [...]

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