Dispelling The Top 10 Nutrition Myths
Don’t drink alcohol. Take vitamins. Avoid eating eggs. We’ve heard these pieces of nutritional advice for years - but are they accurate?Not necessarily, say two exercise physiologists presenting at the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) 11th-annual Health & Fitness Summit & Exposition in Dallas, Texas. Wendy Repovich, Ph.D., FACSM, and Janet Peterson, Dr.P.H., FACSM, set out to debunk the “Top 10 Nutrition Myths.”
It’s worth a quick read.
Nine Super-Nutritious Foods - Forbes.com
The term “functional food” has no legal definition. While it has long referred to fare beneficial to a person’s health, such as broccoli, it’s increasingly used to refer to designer foods or ones that have been modified to incorporate nutrients they wouldn’t normally contain for a specific health purpose. A box of pasta with heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids–normally found in fish–is a prime example.And consumers, who are swimming in information about the relationships between foods or their ingredients and disease risks, are eating them up.
We go for getting nutrition direct from the natural source when possible. But in the end, are fortified foods really any different from taking a vitamin supplement?
Nine Super-Nutritious Foods - Forbes.com
The term “functional food” has no legal definition. While it has long referred to fare beneficial to a person’s health, such as broccoli, it’s increasingly used to refer to designer foods or ones that have been modified to incorporate nutrients they wouldn’t normally contain for a specific health purpose. A box of pasta with heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids–normally found in fish–is a prime example.And consumers, who are swimming in information about the relationships between foods or their ingredients and disease risks, are eating them up.
We go for getting nutrition direct from the natural source when possible. But in the end, are fortified foods really any different from taking a vitamin supplement?
Start Eating Green For Your Health This St. Patrick’s Day
In addition to the regular festivities surrounding St. Patrick’s Day this month, consider adding a new tradition more green foods to your diet.”Green foods across the board are healthy in terms of their vitamin, mineral, water and antioxidant content, and St Patrick’s Day is the perfect time to think about how you can incorporate more of them into your diet,” says Erica Wald, RD, a wellness coordinator with the MFit Health Promotion Division at the University of Michigan Health System.
The key, she says, is variety.
“You want to incorporate lots of different intensities of green all the various colors of green,” she says. “The more varied the colors, the more varied your vitamin and mineral intake.”
A novel idea - and it’s got to be better than the green beer.