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Canned Foods, Much Better Than Their Reputation: Issues W/ Heavy Metals, Plastics, and Nutrient Losses Revisited

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While generalizations are problematic, it is true that the average canned product is better than its reputation would suggest. As a SuppVersity -reader, you will know that frozen vegetables and fruit are much healthier than their reputation would suggest ( learn more ). In previous articles, I have even pointed out that for some foods, such as spinach, the frozen variety is superior to the "fresh" one with respect to almost all relevant nutritional aspects. Now, this raises the question: If frozen fruits and veggies are so much better than most people believe, could the same be true for canned fruits and vegetables? Looking for more ways to improve your diet? Increase your potassium (K) intake! Potassium vs. Diet-Inducded Insulin Resis. In the Lime Light: The Ill Effects of Low K Intakes Bad News: Most Americans are Sign. K Deficient Lean, Healthy ... Correlates of High Hair Potassium Eating a High Protein Diet? Better Watch K! Potassium Bicarbonat...
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Food Irradiation, Threat to Our Health or an Ideal Alternative to Chemical/Heat Treatment? SuppVersity Kitchen Science

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If you google images for food radiation, you get an idea of the (misplaced) prejudices against killing bacteria with ionizing radiation instead of nutrient damaging heat or potentially health-threatening chemicals -- No wonder companies still avoid it. You may remember that I asked you to send in questions/research topics for the new SuppVersity Kitchen Science  series in my recent article about different frying methods . Well, until now, the response has been - to be honest - disappointing. The first of the readers' suggestions I am going to address is Boban's question whether the (meanwhile) common practice of food irradiation is (a) sensible and (b) safe. Now, I have to admit that the irradiation doesn't take place in the kitchen. I do, however, consider the act of grocery shopping part of "kitchen science"; after all, the choices you make in the super- or at the farmers' market will significantly affect the outcome of your "kitchen sessions...
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Is 'Meat' Bad for us, or Rather the Products we Call 'Meat' - A Mix of Preservatives + Colorings That's Killing Us Slowly?

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Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce: the worst offenders in the "meat" category. Foods that owe their color, their taste, their shelf-life and their tolerable bacterial count to an amount of food additives that makes me question whether these food products are still "meats". You will probably remember from previous SuppVersity articles that the association between meat, cancer, diabetes and other ailments of the Western Diabesity Society often vanish when studies successfully adjust the odds ratios for developing one of multiple of these diseases for fresh (=unprocessed) vs. processed meat intake. One reason for this observation unquestionably is oxidative damage to the protein and fat content of meat product during processing. Unlike these factors and the oxidation of fats that you add when you prepare the meat , there's yet another potential reason for the bad effects of processed  meats on our health: many of them are only par meat, part additive. ...
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Foods in the Limelight: Blueberry Smoothies, Egg Protein & 'Healthy Eating' | Plus: How to Diagnose Gluten Sensitivity?

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Yes, blueberry smoothies are heart healthier than those without blueberries, but can't replace blood pressure meds. In today's installment of the SuppVersity  short news we will take a look at a bunch of recent studies that have been published in the open-source journal Nutrients  in the last months. Some of them deal with foods, others with behavioral aspects that are related to one's diet and its effects on body weight and health. I will try to adapt the length of the summary to the appeal of the article, but if you feel that a specific topic has not been covered "in-depth enough" for your liking, you can always type the title of the study from the references into google and take a closer look, yourself. If you want training, not nutrition articles, here you go! Optimizing Rest for Size and Strength Gains When Rodents Squat, We Can Learn A Lot! Farmer's Walk or Squat? Is Strong- men T. For You? Full ROM ➯ Full Gains - Form Counts! Cut ...
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