Healthy food isn’t the first thing we think of when we picture the concession stand at our local recreation centre.
You are more likely to find fries and burgers than smoothies and salads – which is why so many parents of young children drag their kids past the café area after swimming – out to the car for a more healthy juice box and granola bar. It is also why teens like to hang around, filling up on fries and sweetened flavoured coffees.
That picture is changing.
The Juan de Fuca Recreation Centre …

Can we eliminate one of the most devastating illnesses known to modern mankind, an illness that has touched all of our lives in one way or another? We all know someone who lives with it, who has survived it or who has died of it. Some of you are currently living with it and some have miraculously survived it. I lost my father to it. I’m sure by now you know what I’m talking about; Cancer.
With all of our knowledge and all of the scientific breakthroughs we still have not …

The movement of food ingredients, cooking methods and dishes across the earth’s surface is ancient, and in large measure only poorly recorded. While the West has documented its contributions to global cuisine, those of the rest of the world are less well recognized. This paper takes note of Asia’s role in enriching the world’s foods, both nutritively and in terms of diversity and taste.
If any of us were asked — in the classroom, or during a radio interview, for instance — whether Asia had made any significant contributions to a …

Sure, you know how to breathe…or do you? And do you know what breathing can do for you…beyond keeping you alive, that is? Did you know that breathing properly can help you burn fat even better than some exercises? In fact, studies by a California university have shown that simply deep breathing can help burn up to 140% more calories than riding an exercycle.
Obviously, oxygen is important for life, and I think we can all agree that it would seem reasonable to assume that it has a great deal of …

Physicians Formula:
I discovered that Physicians Formula is breaking the FDA rules by selling lip plumpers that contain ferric ferrocyanide which is only approved for eye makeup and not for lips!!! DONT’T BUY!!! The lady in Walgreens could hardly believe her eyes when I showed her the ingredients. Luckily she had good eyes, since the ingredients were written in tiny letters!
However, even Physicians Formula is trying to adapt to the green wave that is happening. They have also introduced a new skincare line called “Organic wear,” that offers a tinted moisturizer …

Our modern food industry is luring us with millions of tasty foods but most often than not these are full of food additives. Food additives have an impact on your health ant you should take it into consideration before it is too late.
Food additives are chemical substances added in foods and beverages with the purpose of enhancing their qualities: taste, color, expiration date. All their names start with an E followed by three numbers and you can find the list of them on the packaging of the foods you eat.
Food …

Everyone wants to take better care of themselves and that includes making certain that they are eating the best foods that they can. Raw foods are believed to be the right choice when it comes to picking healthy ingredients, but you may be surprised to learn that eating a diet rich in raw foods isn’t as simple as going to the grocery store and choosing a few items.
When you decide to start eating foods in their natural state consider where that food is coming from. Most vegetables that you purchase …

In regard to the threat of poison in foods and environment, European doctors and governments have demonstrated their willingness to protect the public. For example, long before Americans even heard of the possible link between smoking and cancer, several European governments, convinced by the overwhelming evidence, took action against smoking. In England tobacco advertising is under rigid restriction. In Italy it is totally banned. Heavy taxes were put on cigarettes by many countries to make them less attractive; a pack of cigarettes in Sweden, for example, costs about three times …

The Centre for Food Safety today released results of its recent study on the levels of a flame-retardant chemical in foods of animal origin. It shows the chemical PBDE – for polybrominated diphenyl ethers – is commonly found in food, but at low levels that are unlikely to pose health risks.
 
The results were combined with secondary school students’ consumption data to obtain the daily dietary exposures to the chemical from individual food items.
 
The highest levels on weight basis were found in fish, which was also the major dietary source of secondary school students PBDEs.
 
The dietary exposure to the …

The National Innovation Agency (NIA) is preparing to promote food trends in the second half of this year with a major forum, exhibition and conference entitled “InnoAsia 2009: Food in the Future.”
 
The main theme for the event, which will be held at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre in December, is “Food is the First Medicine.”
 
NIA project manager Sura-at Supachatturat said the event was aimed at consumers wishing to seek out more convenient, better-tasting and more effective foods and beverages, in the belief that health was going to remain a …