We posted previously about sugar’s contribution to Oppositional Defiant Disorder, unreasonable spikes of rage and aggression that are becoming more and more common in children.
This article on the Word of Mouth Blog looks at the “food swings” caused by diets high in sugar, artificial trans-fats and other “bad” stuff. Sadly, the food-mood link hasn’t been widely accepted in the past. Hopefully that is changing now.
Video from Natural Cures:
Not many people are aware, but the human body functions the best at a pH level that is slightly on the alkaline side. The body’s pH levels can range from 0, or completely acidic, to 14, completely alkaline. Ideally, the body’s pH levels should sit around 7.35 to 7.45 in order to function properly.
Unfortunately, the majority of people consume a highly processed diet that is high in sugar. This causes the body’s pH to become acidic. Therefore, most of the people walking around today have pH levels that are not stabilized and are acidic.
Luckily, the pH in the human body can be restored. Today’s video will discuss ten powerful foods that are consumed on the alkaline diet and can improve one’s health.
Don’t believe the American Heart Assn. — butter, steak and coconut oil aren’t likely to kill you
Last month, the American Heart Assn. once again went after butter, steak and especially coconut oil with this familiar warning: The saturated fats in these foods cause heart disease. The organization’s “presidential advisory” was a fresh look at the science and came in response to a growing number of researchers, including myself, who have pored over this same data in recent years and beg to differ. A rigorous review of the evidence shows that when it comes to heart attacks or mortality, saturated fats are not guilty.
To me, the AHA advisory released in June was mystifying. How could its scientists examine the same studies as I had, yet double down on an anti-saturated fat position? With a cardiologist, I went through the nuts and bolts of the AHA paper, and came to this conclusion: It was likely driven less by sound science than by longstanding bias, commercial interests and the AHA’s need to reaffirm nearly 70 years of its “heart healthy” advice.
and this…
That the AHA should be so resistant to updating its view of saturated fats, despite so much legitimate science, could simply reflect the association’s unwavering devotion to a belief it has promoted for decades. Or it could be due to its significant, longstanding reliance on funding from interested industries, such as the vegetable-oil manufacturer Procter & Gamble, maker of Crisco, which virtually launched the AHA as a nation-wide powerhouse in 1948 by designating the then-needy group to receive all the funds from a radio contest it sponsored (about $17 million). More recently, Bayer, the owner of LibertyLink soybeans, pledged up to $500,000 to the AHA, perhaps encouraged by the group’s continued support of soybean oil, by far the dominant ingredient in the “vegetable oil” consumed in America today.
Read the article: Don’t believe the American Heart Assn. — butter, steak and coconut oil aren’t likely to kill you – LA Times
How much sugar is really in your food? Sure there’s a lot of sugar in Coke, but baked beans?? Also, “healthy” cereal has more sugar than Fruit Loops.
