Tag Archives: healthy

Comparing Fitness Waters: Gatorade Propel, Vitamin Water, Sobe LifeWater and more [Food Police]

photo credit: thelifeledger I recently received this e-mail from someone at Fleishman-Hillard, who apparently represents Gatorade in PR matters: Great post on calorie disclosure. Did you know that you would have to take 2,640 more steps to burn off the … Continue reading

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Consumer Reports on Healthy Hearts: Eat Fruits, Skip Vitamin Supplements [Healthy Bytes]

photo credit: kansasliberal Eating Fabulous points to this Consumer Reports article on designing a heart-healthy diet. Advice offered includes recommended fruits and vegetables to load up on, designing a diet around the “Mediterranean eating plan,” and whether “heart-healthy supplements” actually … Continue reading

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Jump Drives Save Lives [Healthy Bytes]

photo credit: Infidelic Medical News Today carried a story about a program at Ohio State University where doctors are storing large amounts of medical information on secured USB drives for heart surgery patients to carry with them. Should the patient … Continue reading

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Is Your Child Eating Less Healthy Cereal Than You? [Food Police]

photo credit: thelifeledger Childhood obesity is becoming such an epidemic that many schools are taking steps to increase the nutrition and exercise awareness of both their students and their students’ parents. Take, for example, this article covering changes recently instituted … Continue reading

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When is Eating Healthy not Healthy? [Food Police]

photo credit: SqueakyMarmot When is eating healthy not … healthy? Apparently when you have a condition known as orthorexia, described as “an unhealthy obsession (as in obsessive-compulsive disorder) with what the sufferer considers to be healthy eating.” Weight of the … Continue reading

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