Healthfully yours,
Today nutritionist, Joy Bauer MS, RD, CDN
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White meat turkey is healthier than dark meat turkey.";
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White meat turkey is healthier than dark meat turkey
Fiction: Dark meat gets its dark color from higher levels of myoglobin, a protein which transports and supplies oxygen to working muscles. Because turkey and other types of poultry walk around a lot, their leg meat is darker compared to their breast meat. And thanks to an increased myoglobin level, dark meat contains greater amounts of iron, zinc, riboflavin, and thiamin.
It is true white meat is less caloric than dark meat -- ONLY by about 20 calories:
Bottom line: Choose whichever poultry meat you prefer, light or dark. Just be sure to discard the skin!
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Fat free cooking sprays and butter sprays are really fat free.";
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Fat free cooking sprays and butter sprays are really fat free.
Fact AND fiction: This answer is not so straight forward. Non-stick cooking sprays are made of vegetable oils and butter sprays are made of liquid butter, so they certainly contain fat. However, thanks to their spray technology, one serving produces a portion so small that the fat content is insignificant. And according to nutrition labeling laws, a product can be labeled as fat free when one serving contains less than 0.5 grams of fat.
That said, fat free sprays and butters can be a useful tool when you’re watching your weight. However, take it easy on the trigger or you’ll get many more calories (and fat) then you bargained for. In fact, one of my clients made the mistake of thinking fat free meant carte blanche,… and used an entire bottle of I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter spray on her diet-friendly veggies and baked potato. That’s more than 800 calories of PURE fat!
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Exercise boosts your immune system more so than 1000mg Vitamin C.";
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Exercise boosts your immune system more so than 1000mg Vitamin C.
Fact: Although getting appropriate amounts of Vitamin C is very important for maintaining a healthy immune system, a comprehensive scientific review showed Vitamin C in amounts greater than 200 milligrams (that’s more than double the RDA) did not have an effect in boosting the immune system and/or preventing the common cold (except perhaps in serious athletes).
With this information in mind, people should re-think large doses of supplemental vitamin C. For those who feel compelled to take an extra supplemental dose, stick with 200 - 500 milligrams.
Also, consider how quickly your Vitamin C adds up from food:
On the other hand, exercise has a proven, powerful effect. A study published last year in The American Journal of Medicine showed that when unfit, sedentary people started briskly walking 45 minutes a day, five days a week, they caught fewer colds over a one-year period. That's because each and every time you moderately exercise, the immune system starts functioning at a HIGHER level and remains elevated for about three hours. But because this effect is not long-lasting, it's important for people to regularly exercise.
The bottom line: The absolute BEST way to boost your immune system is to get plenty of regular exercise and eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables. ";
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Some vegetables provide more nutrients when they are cooked versus raw.
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Some vegetables provide more nutrients when they are cooked versus raw.
Fact: For some vegetables, heat processing actually boosts the body’s ability to absorb certain beneficial nutrients such as lycopene, a phytonutrient that has been linked to reducing the risk of prostate cancer and is found in tomatoes.
Scientists speculate that our bodies may have an easier time absorbing certain antioxidants after cooking because the cell matrix (connective bands in veggies) have been destroyed and the valuable compounds are let loose.
That said, many nutrients will be lost with the wrong cooking technique. Do not over-boil your veggies in water unless you’re using the water for soup stock (that’s because water soluble nutrients will slip out of the vegetables and into the water). Instead, enjoy cooked veggies and retain the most nutrition by steaming or microwaving with as little water as possible (if any at all). Plus, keep cooking time to a minimum. ";
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Lack of sleep can increase your risk for diabetes.
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Lack of sleep can increase your risk for diabetes.
Fact: The most common factors believed to contribute to type 2 diabetes have always been too much food and too little exercise. However, sleep deprivation seems to also play a role in abnormal glucose metabolism.
According to a study published in the December issue of the journal SLEEP, subjects who reported sleeping five or fewer hours were significantly more likely to have incident diabetes over the follow-up period than were subjects who reported sleeping seven hours, even after adjusting for variables such as physical activity, depression, alcohol consumption, ethnicity, education, marital status, age, obesity and history of hypertension.
On average, most adults need seven to eight hours of sleep each night to feel alert and well-rested. Adolescents should sleep about nine hours a night, school-aged children between 10-11 hours a night and children in pre-school between 11-13. ";
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Added weight in the midsection raises your risk of health problems, so a tummy tuck or liposuction can lower the risk. ";
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Added weight in the midsection raises your risk of health problems, so a tummy tuck or liposuction can lower the risk.
Fiction: A bulging belly typically indicates you have dangerous fat buried deep inside the abdominal wall, in and around the organs. Liposuction or a tummy tuck only removes superficial, subcutaneous fat, which has very little risk. How can you get rid of the harmful fat? Eat less and exercise more."; // END editorial data