The Best Foods to Slow Your Metabolism
The largest component of our daily energy budget is resting metabolic rate. As I discuss...
Tag: metabolism
Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Dairy consumption is associated with years of advanced ovarian aging, thought to be due to the steroid hormones or endocrine-disrupting chemicals in cow’s milk. When it comes to the amount of steroid hormones we are exposed to in the...
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Boosting Brown Fat Through Diet
Until about ten years ago, brown adipose tissue (BAT) was considered to be biologically active...
Brown Fat: Losing Weight Through Thermogenesis
During World War I, it was discovered that many of the chemicals for new explosives...
Mozart as Medicine
We’ve been playing music since the Paleolithic Era, 40,000 years ago. Music as therapy has...
Improving Employee Diets Could Save Companies Millions
The food, alcohol, and tobacco industries have been blamed for “manufacturing epidemics” of chronic disease,...
What’s Driving America’s Obesity Problem?
Currently, nearly two-thirds of Americans are overweight. By 2030 it is estimated more than half...
The Healthiest Diet for Weight Control
We know that vegetarians tend to be slimmer, but there’s a perception that veg diets...
Avoid Carnitine and Lecithin Supplements
A landmark study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that choline in eggs,...
The Science on Açaí Berries
An independent review of the effects of açaí berries was recently published, which included studies...
Burning Fat with Flavonoids
Nuts appear to boost one’s metabolism, such that when we eat nuts we burn more...
EPA dioxin limit has National Chicken Council worried products could be declared “unfit for consumption”
Dioxin, industrial pollutant of Agent Orange infamy, has been called “the most toxic compound synthesized...
