Natural Medicine: Breakfast really is the most important meal of the day

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/344356_bastyr24.html

Now even scientists say broccoli can cure cancer, not just prevent it

http://www.newstarget.com/000684.html

Doctors not immune to health myths

8 GLASSES OF WATER? FORGET IT

http://www.charlotte.com/162/story/416321.html

Starbucks Now Targeting Kids

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/226771/Starbucks_Now_Targeting_Kids

Snake oil salesmen were onto something

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa029&articleID=F7B4BAF7-E7F2-99DF-3870FFECA70C38C9

"Richard Kunin, a California psychiatrist with a background in neurophysiology research, became intrigued with the idea of snake oil in the 1980s. He had been following early research on the importance of omega-3 fatty acids for health and it dawned on him that the much maligned snake oil might be a particularly rich source. Omega-3's proliferate in cold-blooded creatures that live primarily in cooler environments because the fats don't harden in chilly water like omega-6 fatty acids do (hence, the high level of omega-3's in cold-water fish such as salmon). "Snakes and fish share one thing, they're both cold-blooded animals," Kunin says.

Kunin visited San Francisco's Chinatown to buy such snake oil and analyze it. He also acquired two live rattlesnakes and extracted their fat sacks. According to his 1989 analysis published in the Western Journal of Medicine, Chinese water-snake oil contains 20 percent eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), one of the two types of omega-3 fatty acids most readily used by our bodies. In comparison, the rattlesnakes had only 8.5 percent EPA. And salmon, one of the most popular food sources of omega-3's, contains a maximum of 18 percent EPA, lower than that of snake oil."

The 6 most terrifying foods in the world

Open with great caution


http://www.cracked.com/article_14979_6-most-terrifying-foods-in-world.html

Licensing natural healers: How strict should Idaho be?

Proposal would allow naturopaths from a variety of backgrounds, but one professional group says that won't protect patients.

By Anne Wallace Allen, in the Idaho Statesman:

http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/191810.html

Pick fruit over fruit juice for fiber, weight control

By Lisa Ryckman/SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE

Juice is good for you, as long as it's the juice and nothing but the juice. A 2006 study found that 100-percent juices have the same antioxidant and disease-protective qualities as the produce they come from. But dietitians at Consumer Reports say you're still better off with the real thing. Here's why:

http://www.milforddailynews.com/health/x1075586309

Amid debate, grocery chain bans high-fructose corn syrup

By REBEKAH DENN AND KRISTIN DIZON
Seattle Post-Intelligencer REPORTERS

"There are no Wheat Thins at PCC Natural Markets, no boxes of Kellogg's Raisin Bran, not even any Sara Lee whole grain bagels or Oroweat cracked-wheat hot dog buns.

What customers will find is almost unheard of: a supermarket free of products containing high-fructose corn syrup."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/food/341888_fructose01web.html

Pork workers brains may be infected by airbourne prions

By Julie Steenhuysen

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Eleven workers who removed brains from slaughtered pigs at a plant in Minnesota have come down with a mysterious neurological condition, company and U.S. health officials said on Friday.

State and federal officials were working to find out if other workers at Quality Pork Processors Inc. in the city of Austin may be in danger.

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN0734568420071208?sp=true

A high price for healthy food

Tara Parker-Pope, on Health for The New York Times:

"That’s what University of Washington researchers found when they compared the prices of 370 foods sold at supermarkets in the Seattle area. Calorie for calorie, junk foods not only cost less than fruits and vegetables, but junk food prices also are less likely to rise as a result of inflation. The findings, reported in the current issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, may help explain why the highest rates of obesity are seen among people in lower-income groups"

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/a-high-price-for-healthy-food/

Stress makes us depressed, fat, sick - and we do it to ourselves

By Erin Allday of The San Francisco Chronicle:

A sensible person might argue that at 74, Connie Berto should be enjoying the quiet luxuries of retirement, like afternoon naps and baking pies. But like most Americans, Berto has picked the rush of an active, nonstop lifestyle over peace and quiet.

"I'm always on the go, go, go," said Berto, who lives in the Sleepy Hollow community in Marin County. "My husband and I have a lot of interests and volunteer work and grandchildren - 2-year-old twins that I babysit all the time. I have two horses in the backyard, and I do all the cleaning and the cooking myself."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/10/MNP9TQ9J8.DTL

The Twenty worst foods in America

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21838237/?pg=1#TDY_20WorstFoods