Chocolate: Healthy if Bitter
A number of studies prove that chocolate is a great healthy food which, if dark and consumed moderately, should be eaten without any guilt. Here are some of its multiple benefits: – keeps brains healthy according to the study published this month. As Farzaneh A. Sorond, of Harvard Medical School, explains, “different areas of the […]
Harvard’s Healthy Eating Plate
I found this poster pretty convenient and informative, and unlike traditional USDA food pyramid, not misleading. Some people are concerned about the canola oil, and those concerns are eloquently listed by SleuthJournal. I may talk about these reasons later, but for now evidences found by multiple research centers, including the team of the South Dakota University, […]
Eat Less Red Meat
Red meat kills. In an impressive study covering 448,568 people, European researchers found a direct link between consuming red meat and premature death. They accounted for other factors, like age, lifestyle, smoking, etc., and the link still exists. The safe amount of red meat one can eat per day appears to be 20 gram. It is […]
Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer?
Using cell phones has not been proven (yet?) to result in increase in the risk of cancer. A team of Swedish scientists recently published results of a case–control study on brain tumor cases of men and women aged 18–75 years and diagnosed during 2007–2009. In total 709 meningioma (the most common benign brain tumor accounting for about 30% […]