Healthy Food Chart

The New York Times reported that Dr Gerald Pitman (an expert plastic surgeon) regularly encourages patients to try dieting and exercising before resorting to plastic surgery. …

It seems like health experts are always telling us to eat more fish. But not everyone finds that easy to do. Some kinds of fish taste strong and “fishy,” which not everyone can tolerate. And other types contain mercury or other contaminants–obviously not ideal. And for those who are cost-conscious? The fish counter can be a very, very scary…

Flickr: Guacamole GoalieHot peppers, Pop Rocks and soda, puffer fish and wasabi–all foods that hurt! Or at least potentially do. But for some people, eating ANYTHING can bring about upper abdominal pain, fullness, burning, bloating, belching, nausea and more. It’s caused by functional dyspepsia, a chronic stomach condition, linked to gastroesophageal reflux disease, peptic ulcers and even cancer….

In the US, the number of children with food allergies is rising: around three million American children are affected, according to the first ever NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics) report on this subject. In 2007, one in twenty-six children had a food allergy, compared with one in thirty in 1997….

Over the last few years there has been a concerted effort to remove sugar-sweetened soda drinks from schools. Back in 2006 the American Beverage Association signed a deal that effectively removed some of the most sugary drinks from schools. One (presumably young) commenter wrote “taking drinks out of school to stop kids from getting fat is stupid. Just because you…