Putnam Healing Arts

Step 2: Read labels wisely.

You don’t need to spend an hour making your own marinara sauce (though the book provides a recipe using canned tomatoes, if you’re so inclined). You can also find “real” tomato sauce in the supermarket if you read labels carefully.

Those containing ingredients you can buy on your own, like tomatoes, olive oil, salt, garlic, and parmesan cheese, meet Weinstein’s criteria for a real food; those that have preservatives, like BHT, thickeners like guar gum, or artificial flavors, don’t. Ditto for store-bought breads, breakfast cereals, and pasta.

Excerpt from article by Deborah Kotz in US News and World Reports which I will cover this week in this blog.

A new book, Real Food Has Curves, written by Weinstein and his partner, Mark Scarbrough., has a plan to get you to enjoy food more and maybe lose weight

Posted: June 4, 2010 in: US News and World Reports …see more>

Step 1: Seek true satisfaction.

Grab that peach or strawberry, examine its color, sniff it, and take a bite. Give yourself a moment to enjoy the genuine flavors. For comparison, nibble a Starburst fruit candy or a strawberry fruit roll-up. Notice that you mainly taste sweet without a lot of complexity? That’s because fat, sugar, and salt are added to processed foods to mask the metallic taste of artificial preservatives, sweeteners, and other chemical additives, says Weinstein. He should know since he used to test recipes for packaged food companies and tinker with ingredients to get the appropriate taste and texture. Processed foods are also made to dissolve quickly in your mouth, he says, to get you to eat faster and in greater quantities—often leaving you full, but not satisfied. Now you know why that bag of Doritos disappears before you’ve really had a chance to taste them.

Excerpt from article by Deborah Kotz in US News and World Reports which I will cover this week in this blog.

A new book, Real Food Has Curves, written by Weinstein and his partner, Mark Scarbrough., has a plan to get you to enjoy food more and maybe lose weight

Posted: June 4, 2010 in: US News and World Reports …see more>

You may want to think twice before eating your next sandwich on white bread. Studies show that alloxan, the chemical that makes white flour look “clean” and “beautiful,” destroys the beta cells of the pancreas. That’s right; you may be devastating your pancreas and putting yourself at risk for diabetes, all for the sake of eating “beautiful” flour. Is it worth it? Scientists have known of the alloxan-diabetes connection for years; in fact, researchers who are studying diabetes commonly use the chemical to induce the disorder in lab animals.

It has been known for years. This article was written on Thursday, June 02, 2005 by: Dani Veracity, citizen journalist

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