Sep 26, 2011 | Articles |
Milk does a body good right?? Well, real milk can, but what’s sold at the supermarket is worlds apart from what can be considered nutritious food.180 Degree Health wants you to understand, when it comes to modern pasteurized, homogenized,store-bought garbage, why milk is bad for you. We are conditioned to believe that a diet without milk is dangerously low in vitamins and minerals. If we...
Sep 26, 2011 | Articles |
Fructose, a type of sugar, has historically been granted a ?get out of jail free? card due to its presence in fruit. It’s the same sugar that’s in fruit, and fruit is healthy, so fructose must be healthy goes the story. But is there such as thing as too much?? Without a doubt, yes. Also, when it’s in the form of a refined sugar does it behave the same as the tiny amount of...
Sep 26, 2011 | Articles |
Fiber. Gotta get that fiber. Even the cartoon South Park is inundated with fiber propaganda, as one of the characters, Mr. Hanky, a talking turd overflowing with Christmas cheer, touts the benefits of ?getting a lot of fiber? in your diet. Fiber is lauded as the holy substance that can help cause weight loss, relieve constipation, prevent colorectal disorders, stave off colon cancer, lower...
Sep 26, 2011 | Articles |
Strangely, many people feel that foods that contain cholesterol: such as butter, red meat, and eggs, will contribute to high cholesterol levels if consumed. It’s strange, because even in the infancy of the ?beware of high cholesterol levels? craze, no one ever accused dietary cholesterol of raising blood cholesterol levels. No one accused dietary cholesterol of this because dietary...
Sep 26, 2011 | Articles |
Dietary fat is generally the most feared of all food substances. From the beginning of time until the middle of the 20th century; however, fat was the most highly-regarded and honored of all food substances.? Why the 180? In the middle of the 20th century, up and coming scientist Ancel Keys developed a theory that fat caused heart disease, which was, and still is, the leading cause of death in...
Sep 26, 2011 | Articles |
Cortisol is an adrenal hormone mimicked by Cortisone, the wonder drug used to battle inflammatory and allergic reaction. Side effects of cortisone include “rapid weight gain,” among many other not-so-appealing impacts. Think there might be a connection between cortisol and weight gain?? If you said “yes,” you’re right! But what are the causes of high cortisol...
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