Nutrition

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The 3-Season Diet: Eat the Way Nature Intended: Lose Weight, Beat Food Cravings, and Get Fit (Book)

This book will help you restore balance to your daily life. By following its simple instructions for eating foods appropriate to each season, adjusting your diet to your body type, eating at the optimal time of the day, and exercising without triggering a survival response, you will not only lose excess pounds and maintain your ideal weight, you will generate energy and power in your life.

Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Revised Edition (Book)

This is a book that will let you live longer, reduce your need for medications, and improve your health dramatically. It is a book that will change the way you want to eat. Most importantly, if you follow the Eat To Live™ diet, you will lose weight faster than you ever thought possible.

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health (Book)

T. Colin Campbell has made a career of challenging the conventional wisdom around nutrition, and this book is the culmination of his work. His integrity, brilliance, and unflinching courage shine through every page. "The China Study" takes a macro, bird's eye view of what we eat. The book is part intellectual biography, part nutrition guide, and part expose. As Campbell writes, "This is the story of how food can change our lives." Indeed it is.

How important are nutrients like resveratrol in managing eye pressure?

Submitted by dave on Mon, 12/06/2010 - 10:07pm

Ellen Troyer and others had a nice conversation about resveratrol in the FitEyes.com mailing list. (I can post the whole conversation below if requested.) 

I enjoyed reading this conversation. There are lots of good points here. However, for me, the single most important statement was the one below by Ellen.

Since resveratrol is only one of the nutrients found in grapes and wine, it makes biological sense that it would be the most effective when presented with a balanced amount of other polyphenols molecules. 

"Good Calories, Bad Calories" By Gary Taubes

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 8:42am

I am reading "Good Calories, Bad Calories" By Gary Taubes right now. It is fascinating how bad research can become "good science" regarding fats and cholesterol! Of unexpected relevance to the FitEyes Insight eye pressure research for me at this time. I hope to keep my thinking clear and true, free of personality!

Taking Down the Corporate Food System Is Simple

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 06/21/2009 - 4:45pm
By Joel Salatin, Public Affairs Books
Posted on June 20, 2009, Printed on June 21, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/140477/

Excerpted by permission from "Declare Your Independence" by Joel Salatin, part of the book Food, Inc., available now from PublicAffairs. Copyright 2009.

Fast food hamburgers: what are we really eating?

Submitted by dave on Fri, 06/05/2009 - 10:17am

Americans consume about 5 billion hamburgers a year. It is presumed that most hamburgers are Abstract composed primarily of meat. The purpose of this study is to assess the content of 8 fast food hamburger brands using histologic methods. Eight different brands of hamburgers were evaluated for water content by weight and microscopically for recognizable tissue types.

Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) staining was used to evaluate for brain tissue. Water content by weight ranged from 37.7% to 62.4% (mean, 49%).

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