Submitted by eacastel on Thu, 07/30/2009 - 12:57
By Dr. Nicholas Perricone, MD, FACN
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The pressure to be thin has never been greater. Unfortunately our daily food choices have made this goal practically impossible!
The average American, adult and child alike, are bombarded with corn-fed beef, high fructose corn syrup, refined sugars and starches and dangerous transfats. Even that ubiquitous jar of peanut butter is guilty, harboring a hefty dose of hydrogenated fats.
The trouble with these foods is they sabotage even the most dedicated dieter because they encourage the storage of body fat by being pro-inflammatory. Maintaining a healthy weight is not about your daily intake of fat - and it is not about cutting out the carbs. It is about something most people have no conception of - the connection between inflammation and body fat (and the fact that one is never present without the other).
Submitted by eacastel on Fri, 05/23/2008 - 15:28
A well written article by Nicholas Wade of the New York Times titled "Bacteria Thrive in Inner Elbow; No Harm Done" reveals symbiotic relationships that exist between our bodies and the millions of microbe colonies in them.
Some microbiologists even believe that the human being should be considered a superorganism, consisting of its human cells and those of all the commensal bacteria, like all skin microbes.
