Your Diet Guide

Eating a healthy diet may be good for you, but it may be unintentionally slimming for the economies of some developing countries, a new study says. British researchers modeled what could happen if people in Britain and Brazil adopted healthier diets as defined by the World Health Organization, including more fruits and vegetables and less meat and dairy products.

In Britain, experts estimated that fixing the country’s bad eating habits might prevent nearly 70,000 people from prematurely dying of diet-related health problems like heart disease and cancer. It would also theoretically save the health system 20 billion pounds ($32 billion) every year.

In Brazil, however, the rates of illnesses linked to a poor diet are not as high as in the U.K. Full Article…

Fall’s here, and that means feasts with the family, hot cocoa in front of the fireplace, and… pumpkins. Full Article…

Researchers in Canada claim it’s more dangerous to your health to eat a single egg yoke than to consume a KFC Double Down. At least that’s the case if you’re concerned about cholesterol.

According to researchers, one large egg yolk contains about 275 milligrams of cholesterol; whereas the notorious KFC Double Down, which is loaded with fried chicken, cheese, and bacon, contains about 150 milligrams of sodium.

Of course, that doesn’t mean you should feel you have a green light to eat fast food if you’re at risk of cardiovascular disease. Full Article…

As you may, or may not, know this last October was the first ever Non-GMO month. The Non-GMO Project was sure to hand out Non-GMO shopping guides at local retailers and host educational events around the country that answered a very important question:

Why is non-GMO food important in the first place? Well, GMOs, or “genetically modified organisms,” are created by various genetic engineering techniques to produce species with specific attributes (bigger/better/faster). However, GMOs are not proven to be safe for consumption, although they are widely distributed around the world in many foods you may be consuming. Int Full Article…