Want to Prevent Mental Retardation? Then Don't Let Someone Do This . . .

More than 10 percent of all children have been exposed to it (while in the mother’s womb). All will suffer varying degrees of effects ranging from mild learning disabilities, to major physical, mental, and intellectual impairment. These effects will last their entire lifetime.

Why Does This Happen? Most people want to have healthy, happy kids. They simply do not understand the damage they can cause these little ones with even one drink of alcohol.

Even small amounts of alcohol can have a devastating effect on a growing child. Most sane people would never give any child an alcoholic beverage, but if you drink while you are pregnant, your baby is also consuming that drink.

Alcohol is a teratogenic – a substance that causes birth defects. Its molecules are very small and easily pass through the placenta into the fetus’s bloodstream. If taken early in pregnancy, it poses a great threat to

Whoever Controls the Seeds, Controls the Food

The Future of Food Introduction

More and more when I give lectures on nutrition, I see an increased interest in the topic of genetically modified foods.

According to a recent CBS poll, 53 percent of Americans wouldn't buy food they knew it had been genetically modified. The problem is, it's very hard to tell if a food has genetically modified ingredients, even though almost 7 of every 10 products in the grocery store contain at least one

Misleading Fat Labels - When 2% fat is really 40% fat.

Let’s face it, if you were selling a product that has 2% fat when you measure it one way but 40% fat if you measure it another, you’d want the packaging to read that there was only 2% fat in your product. That is how it goes in the food industry. But that kind of advertising is misleading to consumers.

If you care about what you eat, and you want to be a savvy consumer, you are going to have to learn not only to READ packages and labels, but how to FIGURE THEM OUT. As far as fats go, here is the skinny on figuring out how much of it is actually in your food.

Let’s say you pick up a package of hamburger. It says 85% fat free.Wow, you think, this is only 15% fat. That is low fat and good for my family. What a great buy.

Hold on! That amount is dreadfully misleading because

Don't Eat THAT for Breakfast!

You wake up. You’re hungry. You open the cupboard and see two cereals, Captain Crunch and Raisin Bran. What you do next may not only effect your day, but your life.

What you eat for breakfast is vitally important to your health. It influences many things; what nutrients you get, how healthy you are, your ability to fight disease, how much energy you have, your cravings, your ability to focus, your mood and how much and what else you eat for the rest of the day.

Skipping breakfast is not a good idea. For one thing, people who skip breakfast tend to weigh MORE than those who

When and What Athletes Should Eat

Many athletes, weekend warriors, and soccer moms who want their kids to perform well, want to know what to and what not to eat before and after exercise. What you eat does make quite a difference on performance and on recovery.

When we were living in West Virginia, we watched many of the athletes at the college where we were teaching struggle because they ate so horribly. The football players would get up and eat things like