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10 Tips to Prevent a Painful Gallbladder Attack

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Sometimes one of the compounds in bile — usually cholesterol — becomes so saturated that it forms a solid. This is called a gallstone. It is estimated that as many as one in 10 people have gallstones, though they might not know it. Gallstones may not necessarily cause you any problems, but sometimes when one is pushed out of the gallbladder, it gets stuck in your bile duct. This can cause a lot of pain and is what is known as a gallbladder attack.

Nobody wants to have a gallbladder attack. The best natural health advice is to avoid having one in the first place. With that in mind, here are 10 tips for avoiding stomach problems and painful attacks.

1. Get your doctor’s advice about testing for food allergies. Eliminate any food allergens you might have, such as dairy (milk, cheese, and ice cream), wheat (gluten), soy, corn, preservatives, and chemical food additives. Eggs, especially, Continue reading →

Frying Potatoes to Make Chips or French Fries Produces a Potent Chemical Carcinogen Called Acrylamide

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It’s not just the high fat content that makes potato chips and French fries bad for you; the very process used to cook them produces potent carcinogens inside the potatoes themselves.

Baking, roasting or frying any starchy food at high temperatures causes the sugars found in these foods to combine with an amino acid to produce high levels of a potent carcinogen known as acrylamide. (http://www.naturalnews.com/acrylamides.html) Because all potato chips must be cooked at high heat, and because restaurants tend to cook French fries at high temperatures to bring them to the table more quickly, a healthy diet should contain only minimal quantities of these foods.

For people willing to go to a little extra effort to make French fries at home, there are ways to minimize acrylamide content. Continue reading →

Consuming Junk Food Harms Brain Health

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SYDNEY – Apart from being responsible for the flab on body, processed food also harms behavior and emotional health of children, suggests a new study.

The Telethon Institute for Child Health Research has linked diets high in these foods to a greater risk of behavior and emotional problems, as well as double the risk of having ADHD.

The two studies are based on data from around 1800 WA adolescents from all backgrounds, whose health has been tracked by the Institute since birth, showed that these problems were less among teens with a healthier style of eating.

“We’re showing a significant relationship between what children eat and their brain function, yet it’s not being taken seriously,” the Sydney Morning Herald quoted says Wendy Oddy, leader of nutrition studies at the Institute as saying.

“We don’t have enough promotion of fruit and vegetables, but you can walk through a supermarket and see whole aisles devoted to sweets, soft drinks and refined breakfast cereals,” said Oddy.

The research classified the children’s diets into two eating styles – a ‘healthy’ pattern high in fresh fruit and vegetables, whole grains and fish, and a ‘Western’ diet higher in saturated fat, refined sugar and salt, with more takeaway foods, confectionery, processed, fried and refined foods.

“Omega 3 fats are an essential part of the nervous system and the theory is that when there’s not enough in the diet, brain function is affected.

“This is something the omega-3 industry has latched on to with fish oil, but I think this misses the point that some plant foods like nuts also contribute some of these omega -3 fats,” she said.

Other research has found that impulsive young adults are more likely to go for snack foods when they’re hungry, for instance, while feeling depressed or emotionally distressed can drive preferences for eating sweet carbohydrate or fatty foods.

There’s also a link between being overweight and being depressed, said Oddy.

“Because we’re seeing more overweight and obesity, I think we’ll see more depression, although I don’t know whether the depression comes first or the obesity.

“We also know that people who are overweight or obese have more inflammatory factors in their blood so it may be that this is having an effect on brain function,” she added.