March 13, 2012 by Joyce Bunderson
On Sunday evening more than one billion people around the world lost an hour of sleep due to the change to Daylight Savings Time. As a result of that one-hour shift, epidemiologists can expect to see jumps in numbers of heart attacks and fatal car crashes this week. It happens every year. As a matter […]
Tags: Enhancing Brain Function, Health Claims, heart health, Reduce cardiovascular disease risk
March 6, 2012 by Joyce Bunderson
My grandmother always said: “fish is brain food.” I’m puzzled where that idea came from. She never went to high school; where did that ‘old wives tale’ (tall fish tale) come from? I worry that you may think that I’ve been lured, hook, line and sinker by my grandmother’s concept, but it appears all these […]
Tags: Enhancing Brain Function, Healthy Eating, Mediterranean kitchen, Reduce cardiovascular disease risk
February 14, 2012 by Joyce Bunderson
A Happy Valentine’s Day wish for your healthy heart. It seems as though we Americans feel compelled to go from one extreme to another. In the 1990’s we got the idea across that fat had twice as many calories as carbohydrates or protein; so everyone went off the fat cliff trying to avoid every little […]
Tags: Avoiding Junk Foods, Healthy Eating, heart health, Reduce cardiovascular disease risk
February 7, 2012 by Joyce Bunderson
Bacon and ham were almost daily offerings at my grandmother’s breakfast table, where I lived the majority of my childhood years. The smoky salty taste of bacon can still send me into a mini-ecstasy. I no longer cook bacon or ham, but I do have a piece or even two every once in a while […]
Tags: Healthy Eating, Reduce cancer risk, Reduce cardiovascular disease risk
December 30, 2011 by Mary Ireland
Mary Ireland gives suggestions for creating a healthier lifestyle in 2012.
Tags: Dr. Grandma's Delight, Exercise, fitness, Healthy Eating, Reduce cancer risk, Weight Management
December 20, 2011 by Joyce Bunderson
Since I wrote Enjoying Chocolate – A Spoonful of Reality about a year a half ago, there have been two new reviews – two meta-analysis studies finding links between cocoa consumption and cholesterol profile improvements.
Tags: addictive food design, Avoiding Junk Foods, Food Economics, Food Psychology, Health Claims, Healthy Eating, Reduce cardiovascular disease risk, Weight Management
November 29, 2011 by Joyce Bunderson
It is interesting that Kazimierz Funk, the Polish biochemist who is credited with formulating the concept of vitamins in 1912, made his observations and did his work just about 100 years ago. Funk got the idea to study nutrients in foods, after he read about a Dutchman, Christiaan Eijkman, a Nobel prize-winning professor of physiology, […]
Tags: Avoiding Junk Foods, Fude, Healthy Eating, nutritionism
November 1, 2011 by Joyce Bunderson
Eating real, whole foods is not the habit of many Americans; and making the change to real whole foods, is not happening rapidly. Let’s just face the facts – changing our habits is not so easy. This is in the face of the fact that extensive research has left us little to no question that […]
Tags: Food-like substances, Foodland, Fude, Healthy Eating, Nutrients, nutritionism, Whole Grains
September 6, 2011 by Joyce Bunderson
Public agencies concerned with cardiovascular health always stress the importance of diet and lifestyle as the primary means of lowering fats in the blood and coronary heart disease (CHD) risk. But if your cholesterol goes over the danger line, it’s fairly likely that your doctor will prescribe statins (Lipitor, Crestor or Zocor) and a low […]
Tags: fiber, Health Claims, Healthy Eating, heart health, Mediterranean kitchen, Reduce cardiovascular disease risk
June 28, 2011 by Joyce Bunderson
The other day I received an email from my sister; she was telling me about the Reclast Infusion that her physician recommended for her. She read the list of side affects and because she feels fine, she’s a little ‘freaked out’ about the list. Note: If you don’t like to use a list published by […]
Tags: Bone mass, garden evolves, Health Claims, Healthy Eating