Laurel on Health Food

I recently learned about Meatless Monday, a national public health campaign to help Americans prevent four leading causes of death: heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer . The campaign, affiliated with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, encourages people to avoid eating meat, poultry, and high-fat dairy products on Mondays (you can still eat [...]

An Oprah Magazine reader wrote to David L. Katz, M.D. in this month’s “The Way to Eat” section (Ref: The Oprah Magazine, May 2008, p. 200). She mentioned that her mother had ovarian cancer and her father had Alzheimer’s disease. Knowing that this meant she was more likely to get those diseases, she asked Katz [...]

Mark’s Daily Apple wrote a great piece about the amazing nutrition of hot peppers. Here are some of the benefits they listed:

- Hot peppers are low in calories but high in vitamin C. They also contain carotenoids, lutein, lycopene, and zeaxanthin.
- Capsaicin (the compound that makes peppers hot) is anti-inflammatory and helps relieve headache [...]

You’ve probably heard that steaming vegetables is more nutritious than boiling them because fewer nutrients are lost in the water.  But, some recent research is showing that steamed vegetables are also better than raw vegetables.
New research from Italy’s University of Parma found that steamed broccoli is better for you than raw broccoli. Steaming this veggie [...]

Natural News says a new study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry concluded that a phytonutrient in carrots, falcarinol, can reduce your risk of cancer by a third. A leader on the study, Dr. Kirsten Brandt, recommends that everyone eat a minimum of one small carrot a day with other fruits and vegetables.
Carrots [...]