http://farmasea.com We go to great depths for your health! Tue, 14 May 2013 20:44:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://farmasea.com/trans-fats-the-poison-in-our-food/ http://farmasea.com/trans-fats-the-poison-in-our-food/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2012 23:47:20 +0000 FarmaSea Staff http://farmasea.com/?p=5422
Once-Touted Fat Now Demonized
By Kim Severson and Melanie Warner
New York Times
An artificial fat once embraced as a cheap and seemingly healthy alternative to saturated fats like butter or tropical oils, partially hydrogenated oil has been the food industry’s favorite cooking medium for decades. It makes french fries crisp and sweets creamy, and keeps packaged pastries fresh for months.
But scientists contend that trans fat, a component of the oil, is more dangerous than the fat it replaced. Studies show trans fat has the same heartclogging properties as saturated fat, but unlike saturated fat, ...]]> http://farmasea.com/trans-fats-the-poison-in-our-food/feed/ 0 http://farmasea.com/childrens-cholesterol-levels-have-decreased-study-says/ http://farmasea.com/childrens-cholesterol-levels-have-decreased-study-says/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2012 23:25:26 +0000 FarmaSea Staff http://farmasea.com/?p=5419 Kids’ cholesterol levels have decreased in the past decade, according to a government study.
The results are surprising, given that the childhood obesity rate didn’t budge. How can that be?
Some experts think that while most kids may not be eating less or exercising more, they may be getting fewer trans fats. That’s because the artery-clogging ingredient has been removed or reduced in many processed or fried foods such as doughnuts, cookies and french fries.
“That’s ...]]> http://farmasea.com/childrens-cholesterol-levels-have-decreased-study-says/feed/ 0 http://farmasea.com/artificial-butter-linked-to-alzheimers/ http://farmasea.com/artificial-butter-linked-to-alzheimers/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:11:11 +0000 FarmaSea Staff http://farmasea.com/?p=5410 By Nick Tate
A new study is raising concern about chronic exposure to an artificial butter flavoring ingredient used in some margarines, microwave popcorn, snack foods, candy, baked goods, pet foods and other products.
The study, published in the American Chemical Society journal Chemical Research in Toxicology, has found the ingredient – diacetyl (DA) – intensifies the damaging effects of an abnormal brain protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease.
Past studies have linked DA to ...]]> http://farmasea.com/artificial-butter-linked-to-alzheimers/feed/ 0 http://farmasea.com/nature-valley-brand-targeted-in-natural-lawsuit/ http://farmasea.com/nature-valley-brand-targeted-in-natural-lawsuit/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:10:29 +0000 FarmaSea Staff http://farmasea.com/?p=5408 General Mills may be in hot water due to a lawsuit over their Nature Valley brand. The latest “natural lawsuit” leads us to question who is responsible for feeding us unhealthy foods: ourselves or food companies?
And let the “natural” games continue.
Two California mothers are suing General Mills in regards to its Nature Valley brand, according to a recent article in the New York Times. Fed up with deceptive marketing surrounding Nature Valley—depicted in its television ...]]> http://farmasea.com/nature-valley-brand-targeted-in-natural-lawsuit/feed/ 0 http://farmasea.com/honest-people-stay-healthier-and-happier/ http://farmasea.com/honest-people-stay-healthier-and-happier/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:05:22 +0000 FarmaSea Staff http://farmasea.com/?p=5404 Being honest may actually improve your health suggests a study that found that telling fewer lies benefits people physically and mentally.
For this ‘honesty experiment’, research from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, studied 110 individuals aged 18 to 71 over a 10-week period.
Each week, the participants visited a laboratory to complete health and relationship measures and to take a polygraph test assessing the number of major lies and white lies they had told that ...]]> http://farmasea.com/honest-people-stay-healthier-and-happier/feed/ 0 http://farmasea.com/vitamin-supplements-tied-to-higher-death-rates-headlines/ http://farmasea.com/vitamin-supplements-tied-to-higher-death-rates-headlines/#comments Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:17:06 +0000 FarmaSea Staff http://farmasea.com/?p=5234 By Elizabeth Lopatto – Oct 10, 2011
Multivitamins and some dietary supplements, used regularly by an estimated 234 million U.S. adults, may do more harm than good, according to a study that tied their use to 17% higher death rates among older women
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March 31, 2010
Your multivitamin can give you cancer
CNN Medical Associate Producer
A new study with an alarming headline has been published ...]]> http://farmasea.com/vitamin-supplements-tied-to-higher-death-rates-headlines/feed/ 0 http://farmasea.com/mortality-in-randomized-trials-of-antioxidant-supplements-for-primary-and-secondary-prevention-2/ http://farmasea.com/mortality-in-randomized-trials-of-antioxidant-supplements-for-primary-and-secondary-prevention-2/#comments Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:13:58 +0000 FarmaSea Staff http://farmasea.com/?p=5242 Goran Bjelakovic, MD, DrMed Sci
Dimitrinka Nikolova, MA
Lise Lotte Gluud, MD, DrMedSci
Rosa G. Simonetti, MD
Christian Gluud, MD, DrMedSci
OXIDATIVE STRESS IS IMPLICATED in most human diseases.1,2 Antioxidants may decrease the oxidative damage and its alleged harmful effects.  3-6 Many people are taking antioxidant supplements, believing to improve their health and prevent diseases.7-10 Whether antioxidant supplements are beneficial or harmful is uncertain.11-15 Many primary or secondary prevention trials of antioxidant supplements have been conducted to ...]]> http://farmasea.com/mortality-in-randomized-trials-of-antioxidant-supplements-for-primary-and-secondary-prevention-2/feed/ 0 http://farmasea.com/vitamin-e-pills-linked-to-prostate-cancer-risk-2/ http://farmasea.com/vitamin-e-pills-linked-to-prostate-cancer-risk-2/#comments Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:08:15 +0000 FarmaSea Staff http://farmasea.com/?p=5238 Associated Press
CHICAGO – There is more evidence that taking vitamin E pills is risky. A study that followed up on men who took high doses of the vitamin for five years found they had a slightly increased risk of prostate cancer – even after they quit taking the pills.
Doctors say it’s another sign that people should be careful about vitamins and other supplements.
“People tend to think of vitamins ...]]> http://farmasea.com/vitamin-e-pills-linked-to-prostate-cancer-risk-2/feed/ 0 http://farmasea.com/calcium-supplements-may-aid-bones-boost-heart-risk/ http://farmasea.com/calcium-supplements-may-aid-bones-boost-heart-risk/#comments Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:58:27 +0000 FarmaSea Staff http://farmasea.com/?p=5155 Taking a calcium supplement to help prevent bones from thinning puts people at a greater heart-attack risk, a recent report in the journal Heart says.
The study of approximately 24,000 people ages 35 to 64 found that those who regularly took calcium supplements were 86 percent more likely to have a heart attack than those who didn’t. Those who took only calcium supplements were twice as likely to suffer a heart attack as those who ...]]> http://farmasea.com/calcium-supplements-may-aid-bones-boost-heart-risk/feed/ 0 http://farmasea.com/cartoon-called-under-the-sea-2005/ http://farmasea.com/cartoon-called-under-the-sea-2005/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 20:33:23 +0000 FarmaSea Staff http://farmasea.com/?p=5137 http://farmasea.com/cartoon-called-under-the-sea-2005/feed/ 0