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Plant-Based Meat: Good for the Environment But Not For Your Health

Posted on September 25, 2019 by Better Health For Women

Source: CNBC There are currently two main, buzzy players in the plant-based “meat” market: Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods. In 2013, Whole Foods gave plant-based meat start-up Beyond Meat its first shot at selling its vegan “chicken” strips at Whole Foods locations across the country. Early believers and investors in the product were billionaires Bill […] Read More

It’s Not Just Sugary Drinks That Are Bad For You…

Posted on September 25, 2019 by Better Health For Women

Source: Newsweek Both sugary and diet soft drinks have been linked to an increased risk of death in a huge study. The research, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, involved 451,743 people from 10 European countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the U.K. The participants were enrolled in […] Read More

Healthy Plant-Based Diet Tied to Lowered Heart Risk

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Better Health For Women

Source: Reuters People who eat a healthy, mostly plant-based diet may be less likely to develop heart disease and to die from it than those who consume lots of meat and refined carbohydrates, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers followed 12,168 middle-aged adults over three decades, assessing their eating habits at several points. During the study, […] Read More

The Future of Meat is Shifting to Plant-Based Products

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Better Health For Women

Source: U of T With summer just around the corner, it’s not just the weather heating up in Canada. The plant-based foods sector is also starting to sizzle. Consumers are increasingly following the advice of the new Canada Food Guide, which highlights the nutritional benefits of protein sources like nuts, beans, legumes, pulses and tofu […] Read More

This Is the Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Better Health For Women

Source: OutsideOnline There’s a famous Gandhi aphorism about how movements progress: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” That was actually written by the Workshop on Nonviolence Institute as a summary of Gandhi’s philosophy, but regardless, it’s remarkable how often it accurately describes the evolution of […] Read More

Magical Microbes: How to Feed Your Gut

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Better Health For Women

Source: The Guardian Want a healthy gut? Reach for the kimchi, sauerkraut, artichokes, coffee and chocolate. But watch out – one category of food will make your microbes wither. Kimchi, kombucha, sauerkraut, miso and kefir – all fermented foods and drinks – have been around for centuries, but suddenly they are all the rage. The […] Read More

Cancer Risk From Sugary Drinks?

Posted on July 23, 2019 by Better Health For Women

Source: Medscape Consumption of sugary drinks, including fruit juice, was positively associated with the overall risk for cancer and the risk for breast cancer in a large prospective study conducted in France. Although the study is observational and so cannot establish causation, the researchers suggest that “sugary drinks, which are widely consumed in Western countries, […] Read More

From Fish to Bacon, a Ranking of Animal Proteins in Order of Healthfulness

Posted on July 23, 2019July 23, 2019 by Better Health For Women

Author: Jenna Birch Source: Washington Post As an average consumer, you probably have a vague awareness of the nutritional value of your animal proteins — fish being better than red meat, for example. The issue can be complicated, because all animal proteins have pros and cons, research can come up with conflicting results, and studies […] Read More

Processed Foods are a Much Bigger Health Problem Than We Thought

Posted on June 19, 2019 by Better Health For Women

The case against processed food just keeps getting stronger. But, amazingly, we still don’t understand exactly why it’s so bad for us. In two new papers published in the BMJ, the more ultraprocessed — or industrially manufactured — foods a person ate, the more likely they were to get sick and even die. In one […] Read More

It’s Not Just Salt, Sugar, Fat: Study Finds Ultra-Processed Foods Drive Weight Gain

Posted on June 1, 2019 by Better Health For Women

Over the past 70 years, ultra-processed foods have come to dominate the U.S. diet. These are foods made from cheap industrial ingredients and engineered to be super-tasty and generally high in fat, sugar and salt. The rise of ultra-processed foods has coincided with growing rates of obesity, leading many to suspect that they’ve played a […] Read More

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Articles for Food

Plant-Based Meat: Good for the Environment But Not For Your Health

It’s Not Just Sugary Drinks That Are Bad For You…

Healthy Plant-Based Diet Tied to Lowered Heart Risk

The Future of Meat is Shifting to Plant-Based Products

This Is the Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry

Magical Microbes: How to Feed Your Gut

Cancer Risk From Sugary Drinks?

From Fish to Bacon, a Ranking of Animal Proteins in Order of Healthfulness

Processed Foods are a Much Bigger Health Problem Than We Thought

It’s Not Just Salt, Sugar, Fat: Study Finds Ultra-Processed Foods Drive Weight Gain