Monthly Archives: March 2014

Post-menopausal women who drank two or more diet drinks daily were 30% more likely to suffer a cardiovascular event and 50% more likely to die from related disease.

The fat-free diet craze was associated with increased sugar and contributed obesity and diabetes. Physical inactivity and smoking doesn’t help either.

Weight gain at menopause happens and it requires work to avoid or get it off.

Thirteen recipes using quinoa suitable for different times of the day.

And the winner is plant based whole food. “Eat (real) food, mostly plants, less of it”.

Some comments and recipes for nuts.

Runners cannot eat anything they want if they want to remain healthy.

Variation between healthy and unhealthy counties.

Here we go again. As more information becomes available, it appears saturated fat is not necessarily bad for health. But lifestyle and nutrition are complex and it is impossible to know everything that we need to know. I suspect this … Continue reading →

Many different viruses can cause symptoms of the common cold and they seem to last forever.