A fascinating Vreeland Clinic blog article about hidden sugar in our diet – namely 21 teaspoons daily for the average US adult (and that’s excluding fruit) – and probably for most members of the 'middle class' on this planet.
The CDC (Centre for Disease Control, Atlanta US) is the largest public health surveillance centre in the world. The specialists at CDC have created a leaflet on the influence of food caloric density on body weight. On a similar note, this BBC article gives the best reasons to eat your soup. (TheSlimSchool fully shares this opinion and offers The Soup Diet as part of its programme)
Nutritiondata is a free website by the magazine Self, which provides a broad set of nutrition data for foods. The information includes, as well as the usual calorie count, figures calculating caloric density, glycemic load and inflammatory influence. The data is presented in a very accessible and readable way.
While you can get your health and diet news from many websites, the quality of information varies, at best. Science Daily, another favourite of TheSlimSchool, builds a bridge between scientific studies and the general public. It has created a database of short articles on scientific studies in many fields, including diet and weight loss.
This must be one of the most entertaining health videos ever made (by Health Lab Design, Canada, 9 minutes long). In the month since being posted on YouTube, it has been viewed one million times. It seems to also work very well with lower bandwidth internet connections. Click here to see it
A few pounds too many is not the worst thing that overeating on sugar can cause, but dementia is. Read more in this article by Forbes Online
Many readers may feel that they may have passed the age for sports achievements. These links prove that you can take up a sport at any age you like. Meet a group of female athletes 40-80 years old here. Read about a 92 year old Canadian female running champion who took up running at the age of 77 - 7 years older than another fellow female Canadian runner.