Eating For Health

COVID is in the news almost every day.   A new variant is popping up, etc.   The news recently was fascinating.   Are there foods or supplements that not only can help prevent COVID but also reduce symptoms?   Why hadn’t we heard this before?   You may have seen the many headlines about Probiotics can Reduce COVID Symptoms and Delay Disease .   Researchers at Duke University have come out with surprising findings about probiotics and COVID.    What did the Duke University study find about COVID and probiotics? Before COVID, researchers already knew that probiotics were helpful in preventing respiratory infections.   In March 2020, before many people had been vaccinated for COVID, Duke researchers studied unvaccinated individuals who had been exposed to COVID.   They studied 182 people, with half getting the probiotic lactobacillus and the other half taking a placebo pill.   Even though the research was cut short because study participants started to get vaccinated against COVID,

What is a topic you hear over and over again in January?   Everyone is talking about people going on diets to lose weight.   You hear a guy at the gym saying his doctor wants him to lose 60 pounds.   You hear a woman at the gym saying her daughter is going on the Whole30 diet to lose weight.   U.S. News & World Report notes the Whole30 program restricts food groups, can lead to short-term weight loss but watch out for the rebound when participants may start indulging in all the foods they had to give up.   Result?   They may regain the lost weight and even more.   Fad diets don’t work to help you change your lifestyle but usually offer some quick solutions that aren’t viable for the long term.   You may lose some weight but when you go “off” the fad diet, the weight can pile back on.   Anyone can go on a diet and lose some weight.   What most people want is to lose weight and keep it off.   This requires more than a diet, but lifestyle changes like more exercise and healthier fo