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Superfoods and Their Health Benefits

April 11, 2012

Food Matters

By Food Matters

“Eat superfoods – your body will love it.” –KTRN

Superfoods are a special category of foods found in nature. By definition they are calorie sparse and nutrient dense meaning they pack a lot of punch for their weight as far as goodness goes. They are superior sources of anti-oxidants and essential nutrients – nutrients we need but cannot make ourselves. We all may be adding more salads and vegetables to our diets, but concern over the quality of foods grown on mineral depleted soils makes Superfoods an intelligent choice.

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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-30-11

Today, Kevin explains how if your thinking is right and you’re not a fanatic, you will live a long healthy life. Plus, he gives you his take on the Norwegian tragedy and responds to the skeptics who claim Your Wish Is Your Command is a scam.

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Diet Sabotage: Nearly 1 In 5 Calorie Counts Wrong

July 21st, 2011

The Huffington Post

By: Catherine Pearson

Scanning stated calorie contents before ordering a meal might seem like a good bet in terms of losing weight, but a new study suggests the numbers you see might not be entirely accurate.

When researchers analyzed foods from 42 restaurants, they found that 19 percent had 100 or more additional calories per serving than what was listed. This could have big implications given USDA estimates that nearly half of Americans eat out at least three times per week.

Researchers from Tufts University ordered 269 different food items from both sit-down and fast-food national chain restaurants across Massachusetts, Arkansas and Indiana. For the most part, they found that foods were within 10 or so calories of the information listed, prompting the researchers to write that the stated information was “broadly accurate” in the paper published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

But 19 percent of the foods analyzed were found to have at least 100 calories per serving more than the restaurants stated, and one dish — a serving of chips and salsa — had 1,000 calories more than what was listed. Foods with the lowest listed calorie counts tended to have greater discrepancies.

“We were pleased to see that average calorie listings are accurate,” the study’s senior author Susan B. Roberts, PhD, said in a statement. “But we think it is very important that lower calorie foods not contain more calories than listed because such foods are purchased by people trying to control their weight. They will find that harder to do if they are eating more than they think.”

Among the foods with the greatest differences calorie-wise were soups and salads — particularly those served in sit-down restaurants. Lorien Urban, Ph.D., first author of the study and a researcher at the Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, surmised this could have much to do with portion sizes being slightly bigger than those used when restaurants calculate the calorie content. She also said there can be real differences in terms of how much dressing goes on a salad, or if an extra teaspoon of a higher-calorie topping is thrown in.

“In lower calorie foods, there’s sort of less room for error, so just a small mistake in preparation is going to end up impacting calories to a large extent,” Urban explained. And those small mistakes can add up: The researchers equated discrepancies of 100 calories or more with a potential weight gain of 11 to 33 pounds per year, if said foods were consumed every day.

Last year, a federal law was passed mandating that food vendors with more than 20 locations post calorie content information.

But recent studies have questioned the efficacy of such efforts. A recent study in the Journal of Obesity, for example, found that children and teens in New York City, which has long required posted caloric information, were unlikely to change their orders based on the calorie counts they saw listed on fast-food restaurant menus.

Indeed, in an editorial accompanying the new Tufts study, Linda Van Horn, Ph.D., of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine said it was good news that the majority of calorie labels were found to be accurate, but cautioned that public health efforts were necessary to make people actually pay attention to said labeling, particularly children and teens. She advocated for efforts encouraging people to figure out exactly what their calorie needs are, as well as those of their children, so that they can stay within a healthy range.

“All the labeling in the world isn’t going to help if people don’t know what they need,” she said. “This study shines a spotlight on both sides of the situation. There needs to be be better self-monitoring by restaurants and in regulatory recommendations for how [caloric] standardization can be achieved. But consumers also need to be better informed about how many calories they actually need.”

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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-31-11

Today, Dr. Tom Morter joins Kevin as co-host of the day! Find out how Trace Minerals are absolutely imperative to your health and why you should never leave home without it! Plus, discover how YOU can learn the secrets behind winning big at the racetrack and casino!

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Television Only Advertises Fatty Foods

June 1, 2010

Telegraph

Prime time programmes include commercials for single meals that have more than three times the recommended daily servings for sugars, the study disclosed.

Researchers found that a 2,000-calorie diet consisting entirely of advertised foods would contain less than half of the recommended servings of vegetables, dairy, and fruits. But the amount of sugar and fat contained in meals promoted on television is so great that eating just one meal provides up to three times the recommended daily servings.

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Calorie-Burning Fat Could Help You Lose Weight

May 11, 2010

Time

By Alice Park

It might turn out to be the ultimate irony in our constant battle with the bulge that the best weapon against fat could be fat.

Scientists know that a type of adipose tissue called brown fat tends to burn calories rather than store them. Most adults have far more white fat than brown fat, since it’s more important to store calories for future use than to use them up. But when it comes to weight loss, the energy-burning power of brown fat could actually prove useful. And based on continuing research in mice, it appears that researchers have found some promising ways to exploit its fast-acting features. This week, in a study published in the journal Science, a group of European scientists, led by Stephan Herzig at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, report that they have discovered a way to make regular white fat act more like the calorie-hungry brown fat and melt away pounds in overweight animals.

The researchers focused on an enzyme known as cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), which is involved in a variety of physiologic functions, from regulating blood pressure to controlling inflammation and contracting muscles. (The class of painkillers known as COX-2 inhibitors, like Celebrex, takes advantage of COX-2′s role in inflammation by clamping down on the enzyme’s activity.)

In mice, boosting the function of COX-2 caused the animals’ white fat to act like brown fat, and led to a 20% drop in their weight. “There has been a lot of excitement around brown fat, but … there wasn’t any clear indication that turning up brown fat would make animals lose weight,” says Chad Cowan, a professor in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard Medical School who studies fat cell development. “What this paper does is make a good link to something that might be clinically beneficial.”

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California County Bans McDonald’s Happy Meal Toys

April 28, 2010

Telegraph.co.uk

Officials in the county of Santa Clara, in the heart of technology centre Silicon Valley south of San Francisco, have voted to enact the ban to fight an “obesity epidemic” sweeping California and the United States.

“This ordinance prevents restaurants from preying on children’s love of toys to peddle high-calorie, high-fat, high-sodium kids meals,” said Ken Yeager, the county supervisor behind the ban.

He said it “breaks the link between unhealthy food and prizes.”

County public health officials that spoke in support of the ban at a public meeting blamed fast-food for being a factor in soaring obesity rates threatening American children with diabetes and shortened lifespans.

“Obesity is literally an epidemic,” Dan Peddycord, the county public health director, said in remarks to the board of supervisors.

“If food meals sold in restaurants contain too many calories, high fats, high sugars, high sodium and are attached to an incentive item like a toy, that is part of the environment we make our decision in.”

The ban is to take effect in 90 days unless major fast-food chains and the state restaurateurs association successfully pitch a better solution.

It will bar toys from being offered with meals that don’t meet a set of basic nutrition standards.

Harlan Levy, of McDonald’s, was part of a fast-food restaurant contingent that turned out to oppose the ban.

“It substitutes the county’s judgment for the judgment of parents,” Levy told the board. “It does nothing to address a holistic response to the problem.”

For example, the ban doesn’t change sedentary lifestyles that have children sitting watching television or playing video games, Levy argued.

“It’s parents, schools, exercise, walkability but it is also the endless promotion of toys that are tied to unhealthy meals that is particularly to blame,” Mr Yeager said of growing obesity problems with children.

“It is unfair to parents and children to use toys to get them hooked on eating high-calorie, high-fat foods early in life.”

Fat, salt and sugar form an addictive combination in the brain and adding a toy reward to the formula makes the habit even harder to kick, according to county health officials.

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Calorie Data to Be Posted at Most Chains

March 24, 2010

CNN

By Madison Park

The health care bill signed into law Tuesday by President Obama is the nation’s most sweeping social legislation in four decades. But it also includes some smaller changes that will directly affect consumers.

These include taxes on indoor tanning services, requirements for restaurants to post calorie information and changes to flexible spending accounts.

Restaurants

There are 540 calories in a Big Mac and 670 calories in a Whopper. Nutritional information will be unavoidable when customers step up to the counter to order.

The health care law requires chain restaurants that have more than 20 locations to display calorie information next to the food item on the standard menu.

The Food and Drug Administration has the task of establishing more specific regulations and determining when these changes go into effect.

The health care law requires “succinct statement concerning suggested daily caloric intake” that are “posted prominently on the menu and designed to enable the public to understand, in the context of a total daily diet, the significance of the caloric information that is provided on the menu.”

Dr. Kelly Brownell, a Yale University psychology professor at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, conducted research that found that consumers choose lower-calorie food when their menus contained caloric information and a statement that said “an average person consumes 2,000 calories a day.”

“A lot of people don’t know what it means to have 600 calories,” he said. “They have no context and the legislation requires that anchor statement.”

Nutrition facts would also be required to be posted on vending machine products and drive-thru menus. Temporary specials appearing on the menu for less than 60 days, condiments and test market foods are exempt.

“Consumers have the right to this info whether or not it makes a difference on the diet,” Brownell said. “But I believe the data will ultimately show that it does.”

The National Restaurant Association called the passage of the provision “a win for consumers and restaurateurs.” The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit health advocacy group, praised its passage, calling it a “one of dozens of things we will need to do to reduce rates of obesity and diet-related disease in this country.”

In recent years, New York City and California have passed laws requiring nutritional information on menus.

Earlier this month, Panera Bread announced it voluntarily will post calorie information in all its locations by the end of 2010.

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The Way to Weight Loss – Vitamin D

January 29, 2010

Natural News

By E. Huff

A recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Minnesota found that overweight people have better success in losing weight when their vitamin D levels are increased. Dr. Shalamar Sibley, the researcher who headed the study, placed 38 obese men and women on a diet program and discovered that those whose vitamin D levels were increased lost up to a half pound more than those who followed the diet plan only.
When combined with a reduced-calorie diet, it appears that supplementation with vitamin D helps to promote increased weight loss among those whose levels are low to begin with. For each nanogram per milliliter increase in vitamin D precursor in the blood, it was observed that an extra half pound loss in weight was able to be achieved while the diet plan.

A study published earlier this year in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that 75 percent or more of American teens and adults are deficient in vitamin D. Vitamin D deficiency is linked to all sorts of serious illnesses including cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Researchers in the weight loss study are unsure whether vitamin D deficiency causes obesity or if obesity causes vitamin D deficiency. Nevertheless, there is a clear connection between the two.
Vitamin D, in conjunction with calcium and sunlight, helps to properly assimilate food and regulate normal blood sugar levels. When there is a lack of calcium, oftentimes due to a vitamin D deficiency, the body increases production of synthase, a fatty acid enzyme that coverts calories into fat. Calcium deficiency can cause synthase production to increase by up to 500 percent, explaining the correlation between low levels of vitamin D and obesity.
Mainstream research has only begun to scratch the surface about the importance of vitamin D in general health maintenance. A clinical study conducted in April of 2000 revealed that patients who were bound to wheelchairs because of chronic fatigue and body weakness became mobile after just six weeks of supplementation with 50,000 IU of vitamin D per week. Other studies are showing remarkable healing from all kinds of diseases when vitamin D is brought up to proper levels.
Although current guidelines suggest daily intake somewhere between 400 and 600 IU, recent research is suggesting that this may be too low. Getting between 4,000 and 10,000 IU a day will have a much more therapeutic effect, boosting health and fending off disease. When natural sunlight is not an option, supplementation with vitamin D3 is the next best option.

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