source: CDC
MY COMMENT: One of the easiest ways to improve your diet is to increase consumption of fruits and vegetables. If you are not averaging 2 fruits and 3 vegetable servings per day, ask yourself why not? It’s not that hard.
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A penny-per-ounce excise tax could reduce consumption of sugared beverages by more than 10%. New England J of Medicine
MY COMMENT: Fine with me, as long as they don’t start taxing beer.
“If Bernard Madoff were in the food business, he’d be offering ‘free’ trials of açai-based weight-loss products,” -CSPI senior nutritionist David Schardt
Read more from The Center for Science in the Public Interest (publisher of Nutrition Action Newsletter)
…adults who drank at least 8 ounces of vegetable juice as part of a calorie-controlled heart-healthy diet lost 4 pounds over 12 weeks, while those who followed the same diet but did not drink the veggie juice lost only 1 pound -yahoo health
MY COMMENT: 4 pounds in 12 weeks? These subjects were supposed to be following the DASH Diet- I am curious how much cheating was going on. Unless you have absolutely no blood pressure problems, I’d choose the low sodium version. And don’t get the idea that all you need to do is drink a can of juice at breakfast and the pounds will melt away. 
When they chewed gum, on average, they reported significantly decreased feelings of hunger and cravings for something sweet. In addition, the gum chewers felt they maintained energy levels throughout the afternoon and also felt significantly less drowsy at hours two and three before the afternoon snack -Medical News Today
… after 90 days, the rats that received the blueberry-enriched powder, measured as 2 percent of their diet, had less abdominal fat, lower triglycerides, lower cholesterol, and improved fasting glucose and insulin sensitivity, which are measures of how well the body processes glucose for energy ScienceDaily.com
MY COMMENT: Blueberries are well known for their abundance of antioxidants.
The Beverage Guidance Panel recommends 20-50 ounces per day.
Those who advocate drinking up to a gallon a day should think twice about dispensing that advice (see how drinking too much water can be potentially very dangerous!).
Another problem with drinking too much water – your body responds by shutting down production of vasopressin, a hormone that signals the kidneys to preserve water.
In one study, college students were given one of two menus. One menu featured French fries, chicken nuggets and a baked potato; the other included those same items as well as a salad. The French fries, widely perceived as the least healthful option, were three times as popular with students selecting from the menu that had the salad as they were with the other group. -NY Times
MY COMMENT: Ok, let me get this straight- students that select food items perceived as healthy feel justifed to also eat more less healthy foods?
Boosting calcium consumption spurs weight loss, according to a study published in the most recent issue of the British Journal of Nutrition, but only in people whose diets are calcium deficient. Medical News Today
Those taking CA supplements lost 6 kg over 15 weeks compared to 1 kg in a control group. The mechanism for the connection remains unclear.
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