A CDC-TV video examines binge drinking, defined as four or more drinks for a woman or five for a man on one occasion. Dr. Robert Brewer and Dr. David Jernigan challenge the idea that it is only a youth problem and point to measures such as higher alcohol excise taxes.
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Does Eating More Frequent Meals Really Rev Up Your Metabolism?
Dr. Mercola cites a trial in which overweight adults on identical very-low-calorie diets, split into three or six meals a day, showed no difference in fat loss, appetite control or hunger and satiety hormones. Exercise, he writes, is the more reliable metabolic boost.
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Drinking alcohol common among American youth
A federal analysis of 2006-2008 survey data found that 27.6 percent of Americans aged 12 to 20 drank alcohol in the past month, and 8.6 percent of those drinkers bought it themselves. Rates ranged from 13.7 percent in Utah to 40 percent in some states.
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Black Angus Steakhouse
Stuart Anderson of Seattle founded the chain in 1964 to serve a complete steak dinner at an affordable price. It runs 46 steakhouses across six western states, each with about 75 employees, serving roughly 3,000 customers a week.
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Eat Like a Caveman
Washington lawyer Robert Keeling credits CrossFit workouts and two years on the paleo diet, lean meat, fish, nuts, fruit and vegetables with no starch, sugar, dairy or beans, for sleeping better and rarely getting sick. Coaches describe it as eating like a Paleolithic human.
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Hoki fish
Hoki, also called blue grenadier or New Zealand whiptail, lives at 10 to 1,000 m off southern Australia and New Zealand and fills McDonald's Filet-O-Fish. A 2009 New York Times article questioned the sustainability of New Zealand's 100,000-ton annual quota, which the industry disputes.
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If You Drink Coffee Make Sure it is Organic
At least 10 percent of Mesoamerican coffee growers have gone back to chemical fertilizers and pesticides in three years as the organic price premium stopped covering higher costs and smaller yields. Mercola blames the three-year wait for certification and the small organic market.
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Featured Restaurant: Hot Potato Cafe
A listing for Hot Potato Cafe at 529 E Girard Ave in Philadelphia, with its hours, phone number and menu items including hot potato soup, Port Richmond pierogies and Fishtown fries.
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Effects of Switching from Whole to Low-Fat/Fat-Free Milk in Public Schools
New York City schools dropped whole milk during 2005-2006 and moved to fat-free chocolate milk. Milk purchases per student rose 1.3 percent by fiscal 2009, and health officials estimate milk-drinking students got 5,960 fewer calories and 619 fewer grams of fat than in 2004.
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Nutrition labels reduce caloric intake
In a Pediatrics study using McDonald's menus, 99 parents of 3- to 6-year-olds chose about 102 fewer calories, roughly 20% less, for their children when calorie information was listed. Both groups ordered similar amounts for themselves.
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How Much Food Do You Waste?
A US study estimated that 1,400 calories of food per person go to waste every day, 39 percent of the available food supply. Suggested fixes include buying proper portions, storing food better, planning meals ahead, sharing restaurant dishes and composting scraps.
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Why Do You Continue to Eat When You're Full?
Mice given the hunger hormone ghrelin kept nosing a hole for high-fat pellets far longer than mice that did not, suggesting ghrelin may drive eating for pleasure past fullness. Earlier work tied ghrelin to the rewarding feelings from cocaine and alcohol.
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Restaurant menus may be skimping on calorie counts
Tufts researchers analyzed 18 restaurant dishes and 10 frozen meals and found chain restaurant calorie listings ran 18 percent below lab measurements, with two side dishes nearly 200 percent over their stated counts. They call the sample small.
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Careful With Your Water Filters -- Hotel Filtered Water Can Kill You
About 300 guests were moved out of a luxury Miami hotel after Legionnaires' disease struck at least three former guests, one of whom died. Investigators found the hotel had fitted a water filter strong enough to strip the city water's antibacterial treatment, encouraging bacterial growth.
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Why We Should All Eat More Organic Food
The piece argues organic produce averages 25 percent more vitamins and minerals than industrially farmed food, with organic milk 50 to 80 percent higher in antioxidants, and that organic food avoids additives such as MSG, aspartame, sodium nitrate and mercury contamination.
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Two 'Foods' You Should NEVER Ever Eat
Among nearly 87,000 US women followed for 26 years, those eating the most trans fats were three times more likely to die of cardiac arrest, though the link showed up only in women who already had underlying coronary heart disease.
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Foodball fans to consume 80 million pounds of Hass avocados during big game day festivities
The Hass Avocado Board expects football fans to eat an estimated 80 million pounds of Hass avocados on Big Game Day, up from 53.5 million pounds around last year's game. It also offers a cheesesteak quesadilla recipe for hosts who want to go beyond guacamole.
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The 7 Foods Experts Won't Eat
Specialists name the foods they avoid and why: canned tomatoes, whose acidity leaches BPA from the can lining; corn-fed beef, lower in omega-3s and other nutrients than grass-fed; microwave popcorn, whose bag lining contains PFOA; non-organic potatoes; and farmed salmon.
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