Category Archives: Healthy living

Looking for Health In All The Wrong Places

Looking for Health In All The Wrong Places
A critique of the food industry, conventional agriculture, and nutrition research What do animal behavior and nutrition have to do with humans? Nourishment summarizes what animal behavior researcher Fred Provenza has learned (thus far) during his life. You might not think that a person who has spent many hours watching goats and sheep decide what…
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Keep Moving and Eat Better Help Diabetics with COVID-19

Keep Moving and Eat Better Help Diabetics with COVID-19
You don’t have to go to the gym Maintain physical activity and limit starchy foods to manage blood sugar Diabetes is the second most prevalent chronic disease in patients needing treatment for COVOD-19. The presence of diabetes predicts greater likelihood of medical interventions and 49 percent higher risk of dying. Unfortunately, recommendations and requirements for…
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Psychosocial Stress, Obesity, and Diet

Psychosocial Stress, Obesity, and Diet
Higher psychosocial stress predicts more body fat and poorer diet Additional stressors may lead to even more body fat Psychosocial stress appears to promote formation of body fat but, as of 2011, longitudinal studies showed inconsistent results. A meta-analysis involved 14 studies with 32 separate analyses of stress and measures of body fat. Twenty-two of…
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How Ultraprocessed Foods Hook Us

How Ultraprocessed Foods Hook Us
Can't East Just One Munchie? There's a Reason for That The food industry has developed sophisticated and highly effective ways to entice us to buy their products. David Kessler wrote the eye-opening book, The End of Overeating – Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite. He wrote that Big Food has created foods with precise…
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