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Basically the GI diet is eating foods that have a low GI value, when you eat this particular way, it takes longer for the food to be broken down in your body than it would do eating high GI foods instead.

Scientists have recently been wondering why this happens and think Read the rest of this entry »

Generally as a society we tend to learn our eating habits from our friends and parents, and cooking food has always been a part of this for most people it would seem now that raw food is getting quite a lot of attention.

Is it really because that is how we were meant to eat food, even though our ancestors probably had fire. I dare say they weren’t that bothered about cooking their food under heat. They may Read the rest of this entry »

The New York Times has published an article about children’s food worries – and the dangers of pushing kids into being obsessively worried about eating healthily. If you check food labels, insist on organic produce and ban candy and soda… could you be doing your child more harm than good?

Many of the experts interviewed by the New York Times were adamant that too much parental concern and too many rules about what foods are Read the rest of this entry »

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Plums aren’t a fruit that I normally eat as a rule, but just recently, I have just recently started eating them. And as I was doing some research this morning for some fresh content. I am now glad that I do.

Because I came across a article that talks about the benefits of eating plums, which I am now going to talk about. Just recently scientists have found that plums are even better for you Read the rest of this entry »

There are increasing concerns in the US that many kids may have been misdiagnosed with food allergies.

During the last decade, the rate of food allergies in children has risen by 18 percent – with three million American kids estimated to have a food allergy. The New York Times suggests that a move away from skin testing and “food challenge” tests (where a doctor measures a child’s reaction to particular foods) is to blame:

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Plums aren’t a fruit that I normally eat as a rule, but just recently, I have just recently started eating them. And as I was doing some research this morning for some fresh content. I am now glad that I do.

Because I came across a article that talks about the benefits of eating plums, which I am now going to talk about. Just recently scientists have found that plums are even better for you Read the rest of this entry »

Flickr: fried lemon pieIf you ran into the supermarket to buy some milk and every row of 2%, 1%, low-fat and whole, all had sell-by dates of today, you wouldn’t buy it, it’s not fresh!

But if that same cartoon of milk or moldy block of cheese or stale bread or wilted lettuce was in your fridge, you’d probably say it’s good for one more day or just trim around the gross part. It’ll be fine.

Clearly, a double Read the rest of this entry »

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Plums aren’t a fruit that I normally eat as a rule, but just recently, I have just recently started eating them. And as I was doing some research this morning for some fresh content. I am now glad that I do.

Because I came across a article that talks about the benefits of eating plums, which I am now going to talk about. Just recently scientists have found that plums are even better for you Read the rest of this entry »

The Food Channel has come up with ten food-related trends that they think will be big in 2009. Their research was carried out in conjunction with the World Thought Bank, also known as neemee.com.

(Note that both the Food Channel and the World Thought Bank are businesses, not official bodies.)

The editor of The Food Channel, Kay Logsdon, said:

For more than 20 years, the chefs and editors at The Food Channel have Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve all heard the expression, “It’s like comparing apples and oranges,” suggesting that because these two foods are so dissimilar, a fair comparison simply cannot be made. Evidently, the folks at the Griffin Prevention Research Center/NuVal found this to be unacceptable, and this may partly explain why they created the Overall Nutritional Quality Index (ONQI).

In essence, the ONQI identifies how healthy Read the rest of this entry »