Eating For Health

Some interesting nutrition topics in the news this week.   Coffee Drinker?   Well good news for your health.   I love coffee and couldn’t start my day without it.   A large study has reported drinking coffee actually reduces your risk of dying from heart disease and other diseases.   Researchers at Harvard School of Public Health studied both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee in over 200,000 men and women.   For non-smokers the reduced risk is impressive.   Just one-three cups of coffee a day reduces risk of dying by 8%, 3-5 cups reduced it by 15%.   But less returns on coffee consumption for over 5 cups a day.    Interesting, these findings were also true for those drinking decaf coffee.   Cranberries – what is Thanksgiving without the traditional cranberries?   Have any leftovers?   Enjoy as cranberries are great for your health.   Eating fruits and vegetables is more than getting vitamins and minerals. ...

In the nutrition classes I teach I find many people are very confused as to what a juice is and what is a fruit drink?   Many people buy a fruit drink and think they are getting 100% juice.   Something that is 100% juice has many nutritional benefits such as vitamins like vitamin A, C, and folate, minerals and antioxidants.   Fruit drinks may have none of these or the manufacturer might fool you and add something like vitamin C and you might think you are buying something healthy when it is mostly sugar water.   Look at the items below and see if you can tell if it is a drink or a real juice? Sunny D Hi-C Capri Sun Juicy Juice Pink Lemonade Simply Orange Hawaiian Punch Sunland Fruit Drink Tang So how do you think you did?   How many times are you   in a grocery store and you see parents who   have loaded their cart with a case of Capri Sun?   Or instead of orange juice there is...