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Alcohol and Bone Health

Alcohol and Bone Health

Toast to your bones

For over a decade you have heard stories about alcohol, especially red wine, being good for your health, seemingly reducing the chance of getting heart disease or dementia. Could that wine with dinner or a beer after work be doing wonders for your bones too?

1-2 drinks a day

Yes, according to a study of 1200 men and 1500 women by the Research Centre on Aging at Tufts Unive...

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Breastfeeding, fitness and baby's weight

Jenine wrote in and asked if I had any nutritional advice for "athletic mothers who are breast-feeding"? Is there anything more beyond the advice to eat healthy? Breastfeeding itself certainly requires extra energy, that is, providing liquid food for someone else means you need to eat and drink more. Approximately 700 Cals (2900 kJs) are needed to produce a litre of breast milk. That has...

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Getting kids to eat their veggies

Getting kids to eat their veggies

Vegetables were probably never that big in the human diet. We evolved eating meat, seafood, nuts, seeds, fruits, tubers, fungi, berries and insects because that's where the kilojoules are. When you need energy (kJs/Cals) each day to survive, why bother eating a leaf (lettuce), a flower (broccoli) or something else that is mainly water? Add the fact that 10,000 years ago you never met your grandpar...

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Breakfast

Breakfast

Not long ago I was asked to review the science on the benefits of breakfast for a cereal company. Although it is a common truism that "breakfast is good for you" I wanted to know if it remains good advice. So I plunged into 30+ research papers to see what was agreed about the first meal of the day. Here is what I learned.

Leaner

Breakfast eaters are less likely to be chubby. And it ...

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Nuts

Nuts

Nuts did fall victim to the fat paranoia of the 1980s and1990s. Remember Nathan Pritikin and his diet? All nuts, except chestnuts were excluded if you wanted to follow his version of health. When his son Robert produced a "new" version of the Pritikin diet in 1990, nuts were permitted, with the exception of macadamias and coconut. But by then, the Pritikin Diet was forgotten. Pity, becau...

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