In food coloring, caramel color sounds almost natural. Unlike artificial colors like FD&C Blue No. 1 or FD& C Yellow 5, which bring up images of being created by a mad scientist in a lab, caramel color sounds like it comes from the age-old process of heating sugars to form dark-brown caramel. But it doesn’t. Furthermore, far from being innocuous, caramel color, which is widely used in brown soft drinks, may cause cancer due to
The future of Personalized Nutrition is Quality Nutraceuticals Based on Actual Individual Biological Need. We have addressed supplementation in a previous post, but this bears repeating, because it remains a highly misunderstood topic. Even in the medical community. Evolution biology proves that vitamins have been essential to life forms for billions of years; and early life forms including primitive humans could manufacture their own vitamins but, curiously, lost this ability over time. Sadly, the diet we
You’re never too old to have an underactive thyroid. When a person’s thyroid hormone level gets too low, nearly every system in the body is affected. An underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism) can cause many symptoms like fatigue, depression, weight gain, constipation, and dry skin. While typically associated with underactive thyroid, all those symptoms can also be caused by other medical problems. And in people over 60, symptoms of hypothyroidism can be more confusing. Any of the
The nutritional myth that saturated fat is bad, continues to fall apart as a steady stream of new books and studies on this topic hit the media. The latest work to challenge the old dogma is a book called The Big Fat Surprise by journalist Nina Teicholz. She points out the flaws in the original Ancel Keys study; how saturated fat has been a healthy human staple for thousands of years, and how the low-fat
A study at Temple University reports that kids’ obesity and weight gain is linked not only to too much fast food, sugary drinks and lack of exercise, but a daily habit that shifts the hormone balance in the body. And it’s relatively easy to reset that hormone balance to help children lose weight. (And the same works for adults, too!) Turn off the lights and make bedtime earlier. Sleep appears to be an important factor