Month: August 2019

If you still think that coffee is bad for you—that it’ll hurt your heart, give you diabetes, and beat up your grandma—it’s time to update your thinking. Yes, many scientists in the 1970s and 1980s feared that coffee could cause health problems, but that was before the research community came to a deeper, richer understanding about antioxidants—compounds that can prevent or delay cell damage. Brewed black coffee is chock full of antioxidants, and its studied benefits go far beyond disease prevention. Coffee may enhance awareness, prevent kidney stones, improve memory, turbocharge your workout, boost your mood, and even block gum inflammation and thereby decrease your risk of tooth loss. Okay, but does the Coffee Diet actually work? First off, when it comes to diets, “work” is a ...

The Korean Weight Loss Diet, also known as the K-pop Diet, is a whole-foods-based diet inspired by traditional Korean cuisine and popular among Easterners and Westerners alike. It’s promoted as an effective way to lose weight and look like the stars of K-pop, a popular music genre originating from South Korea. What is the Korean Weight Loss Diet? The Korean Weight Loss Diet is inspired by traditional Korean cuisine. It primarily relies on the whole, minimally-processed foods and minimizes the intake of processed, fat-rich, or sugary foods. The diet promises to help you lose weight and keep it off by modifying your diet and exercise habits, all without giving up your favorite foods. It also pledges to help clear up your skin and optimize your long-term health. In addition ...

Plants may be good for your heart. Not political plants, which can be bad if you are the victim of such a scheme, but fruits and vegetables in your diet. An analysis just published in the Journal of the American Heart Association did "produce" more evidence that plant-based diets are associated with a decreased risk of cardiovascular disease. Lettuce takes a closer look at this latest analysis conducted by a team that included Hyunju Kim, Laura E. Caulfield, Vanessa Garcia‐Larsen, Josef Coresh, and Casey M. Rebholz from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) and Lyn M. Steffen from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. They analyzed a salad of data on 12,168 men and women who had participated in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. Ea...