By now, one would think that all there was to know about diets and nutrition and such would be known.
Nope...there are still discoveries, and contradictions, and break-throughs, and break downs and....
The University of Arizona’s College of Medicine in conjunction with the Program in Integrative Medicine (PIM) hosted the “Fourth Annual Nutrition and Health Conference” in San Diego.
10 Nutrition facts came out of the conference -
1. Hunter-gatherers in the Australian outback today live on 800 varieties of plant foods. Modern Americans live principally on three: corn, soy and wheat.
2. One third of Americans get 47 percent of their calories from junk foods.
3. The average American is eating 300 more calories each day than he or she did in 1985.
4. Ten cups per day of green tea delayed cancer onset 8.7 years in Japanese women and three years in Japanese men.
5. Chocolate…may have a mild hypotensive [blood-pressure lowering] effect.
The other five can be found here.
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