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Zinc and the common cold

Zinc and the common cold

Our good friends at the Cochrane Database has crunched the science behind what might be a useful adjunct to scare away the common cold virus far better than an onion. The answer is zinc, but you have to get in early.

Zinc taken as a lozenge or syrup within 24 hours of cold symptoms being detected reduced both the severity and duration of the cold in otherwise healthy people. The zinc supplement w...

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Juicing

Juicing

You are not serious about your health until you juice combinations of fruits and vegetables, according to those that pray at the Church of Blended Plants. You exchange recipes online and discuss the best juicers and blenders on the market and tell the world of nature's wonders. But will juicing elevate your health beyond the capabilities of the original ingredients?

Juicing is a relatively new co...


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Coconut Water

Coconut Water

As kids we would get whole coconuts from the shop, hammer a hole in two places with a tent peg, pour the water into a glass and drink some before we hammered the coconut to split it open so we could feast on the white flesh. All very exotic in the 1960s.

Now coconut water has gained public interest as a refreshment, especially with the allure of being a natural drink, not a concocted soft drink. ...

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Eat like a caveman

Eat like a caveman

What is the perfect diet? If you go by what you read in the media, you might toss up between the Mediterranean diet, the low-carb diet, or the Japanese diet. Now and again you will hear of the hunter-gatherer diet, or cave man diet, touted as the ideal choice as it was the diet for most of human ancestry.

The hunter-gatherer diet should probably be termed the gatherer-hunter diet as our forebears...

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Diet-induced thermogenesis

Diet-induced thermogenesis

Joel, wrote in and asked which of the four macronutrients in food required the most Calories to be digested. The four macronutrients are protein, fat, carbohydrate and alcohol, the only ones that provide Calories in the diet.

His question related to the fact that we burn Calories to digest food, that is, you have to burn some Calories to actually digest and absorb the Calories used by your muscle...

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