THOUGHT you lived a relatively healthy life?
It turns out there are several habits many of us think are doing us the world of good, when in fact they could actually be getting in the way of you staying healthy.
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Thought you were making a healthy choice? It can be tough discerning what is and isn’t healthycredit: Getty
These experts share the common mistakes that many of us may be making…
1. Eating too many high-histamine foods
You may only know of the word ‘histamine’ from packets of antihistamines, often taken during allergy season.
Hannah Braye, Nutritionist at Bio-Kult,…
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Foods marketed to kids are higher in sugar
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Researchers say packaged foods marketed to children contain higher levels of sugar and are lower in essential nutrients than other products.
They said cereal and toaster pastries had the most child-appealing marketing among the products they studied.
Experts say more education for parents as well as government regulation on product marketing to children is needed.
Foods marketed at kids with the most child-appealing packaging are often higher in sugar and lower in vital nutrients than those with less appealing packaging.
That’s according to a Canadian…
The vicious cycle of food and sleep
The future, my mom used to say, belongs to those who wake up early. L’avenir appartient à ceux qui se lèvent tôt. She’d say this as we drove to early ice skating practices on those cold winter mornings growing up in Quebec. As it turns out, science may be proving her right — though perhaps not in exactly the way she thought.
I am a researcher who specializes in understanding the links between diet, sleep and health. Up until around 2014, my lab focused on examining how too little sleep affects obesity. Our work showed that reducing sleep by about…