April 7, 2015 by Joyce Bunderson
Every time I write the goals to improve diet, it always includes incorporating nuts. It’s pretty easy to quickly skim over the information that researchers have found that nuts are associated with improved health (especially cardiovascular, diabetes and metabolic syndrome) and not really take the next step to adding nuts to your regular eating habits. […]
Tags: fiber, Health Claims, Healthy Eating, Reduce cardiovascular disease risk
April 6, 2015 by Joyce Bunderson
A draft sitting in queue but never published. Too bad. Things are pretty busy around the holidays; I probably don’t need to remind you. But the evidence in myself is found in how easy it is to make me laugh. I guess it’s some kind of hysteria. On second thought, after reading the Wikipedia […]
Tags: Foodland, Health Claims
March 17, 2015 by Joyce Bunderson
The Mediterranean DASH, it sounds like some kind of a race or a dance. Right? But, of course, I’m writing about eating styles. What I’m addressing today is the question in many persons’ minds; which way should I go to eat in a healthy way? I’ve written quite a bit about the Mediterranean-style of eating, […]
Tags: Health Claims, Healthy Eating, heart health, Reduce cardiovascular disease risk
March 10, 2015 by Joyce Bunderson
Yin and Yang, the Chinese symbol used within Taoism symbolize a problem that I struggle with. Yin and Yang seem to be a good metaphor for the information on the Internet. Like many, I object to putting feminine on the dark side and masculine on the bright side, but I’m just using the negative and […]
Tags: Foodland, Health Claims, Healthy Eating, heart health, nutritionism
February 24, 2015 by Joyce Bunderson
Last week I wrote a piece about the public’s confusion regarding cancer risk. I read an article from the Washington Post that made me think that I should add a few additional thoughts, most especially about so-called super foods. One of the reasons that I wanted to address super foods is that I’ve even observed […]
Tags: Health Claims, Reduce cancer risk
February 17, 2015 by Joyce Bunderson
The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) and the Continuous Update Project (CUP) have released their annual risk awareness survey report. The goal of the survey is to determine how well the American public is able to separate clearly established cancer risks, from factors about which there is no such scientific consensus. Actually, it’s somewhat […]
Tags: Exercise, Health Claims, Healthy Eating, Weight Management
February 3, 2015 by Joyce Bunderson
Truly, it’s a rare occasion at my home, for the temperatures to be in the 50s and 60s during February – I have plans to breath in some of the warmer air during the next 10 days. I’ve lived in the mountain west for enough years (15) to realize that winter is not over, based […]
Tags: Cooking & Baking Hints, Food Economics, Health Claims, Healthy Eating
January 27, 2015 by Joyce Bunderson
Let me ‘cut to the chase.’ The British Medical Journal published a study on January 22, 2015 presenting an argument that statins save fewer lives than simple lifestyle changes like exercising and eating sensibly. Yes, I know that many people don’t want to be bothered by changing their eating, smoking or exercising habits. It’s no […]
Tags: Health Claims, Healthy Eating, heart health, Reduce cardiovascular disease risk
December 9, 2014 by Joyce Bunderson
Do you sometimes wonder if we Americans need some sort of food villain? Dietary fat…. remember anything with fat was bad (1990’s)? Then carbs, that never was a very clear message – no differentiation between simple carbs and complex carbs, but the message was that protein is the miracle food and fat is a wonderful […]
Tags: Food Economics, Foodland, Health Claims, Healthy Eating, Weight Management
December 2, 2014 by Joyce Bunderson
I’ve heard it said that Chocolate Season begins with Halloween and ends with New Year’s resolutions. I’m certain that’s just a joke, because as anyone who fills Easter Eggs knows – most of the children enjoy chocolate candy in their eggs and Easter never falls between Halloween and the first of January. It seems to […]
Tags: Avoiding Junk Foods, Enhancing Brain Function, Health Claims