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A lot of health benefits have been attributed to olive oil. Here’s a new one: preliminary studies indicate olive oil might help prevent and treat Helicobacter pylori infections which cause gastritis and peptic ulcers.
Brenes and colleagues used laboratory experiments to demonstrate that under simulated conditions the healthful phenolic compounds in extra virgin olive oil […]
I’ve been invited to participate in this week’s edition of the Grand Rounds, a carnival of medical blog entries, and I’ve submitted my entry on 9 suprisingly healthy foods. It’s an edition you readers of Eating Fabulous shouldn’t miss, as this week’s theme revolve around food and diet.
Although all entries beg reading, here are my […]
In a previous article, we have discussed what probiotic foods are and how they boost health by helping us keep a healthy gut microflora. According to the Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide, probiotic food consumption my help against th e following conditions:
digestive disorders, including diarrhea, Crohn’s disease, and irritable bowel syndrome
urogenital diseases, such as […]
A lot mix up the concept of healthy diet as being synonymous with a weight loss diet. But this blog is a shining example that not all foods that may be good for your health may help in weight reduction. However, I have always believed that if we eat right, in quality and quantity, it […]
The UK Tea Council is running a poster advertising campaign on London Underground and Network South East trains this month to encourage people to drink more tea.
A minimum of four cups of tea a day will contribute to your daily fluid intake, the antioxidants tea contains can be beneficial for heart health, and the small […]
Although I live in Europe, I have never tasted kefir, which is supposed to have originated from these parts. Kefir is a fermented milk product, like yoghurt, and results from the labor of lactic acid bacteria and yeasts. The most commonly used strains are Lactobacillus acidophilus and Saccharomyces kefir, although the exact combination of bacteria […]
I found a wonderful blog about herbs, focusing on their medicinal, rather than culinary, properties: Herbs I Have Known and Loved. The entries do not provide scientific references to claims of health benefits, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they are myriads of publications in PubMed that will back them up. One post in particular […]
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while now, you’d see that the border delineating “health food” and “junk food” are getting more and more murky. And with this post, I’ll make it even murkier. :P (Note: this is not a sponsored post)
Chocolate chip cookies: Good or Bad?
Bad for the waistline, perhaps, but […]
First of all, what’s wakame? It’s a brown seaweed (Undaria pinnatifida) collected off the coasts of Japan, and is used as an ingredient in miso soup or in suno mono salads.
Recent studies show that this seaweed is not only a good souce of iodine which can help prevent goiter, it is also high in fucoxanthin, […]
There is a small newly-published study showing that regular consumption of onions and curry may help prevent colon cancer. The effect of these food components were tested on 5 patients (I told you it was small!) with Familial Adenomatous Polyposis, a hereditary disorder characterized by the development of hundreds of colorectal adenomas (polyps) that […]
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