Our modern lifestyle is built around speed, but as a previous article pointed out, living the fast life may rob you of the good life…. You may or may not be ready to switch pace in all areas of your life, but eating slower has several benefits that, overall, may pave the way to a more fulfilling existence.What can you gain from slowing down at mealtime?Lose weight.
Scientists from the University of Granada in Madrid found that the compound, which is extracted from dry olive-pomace oil in olive oil mills, can slow down the spreading of AIDS in the body by 80 percent.Nature is certainly full of powerful, potential cures (not to mention preventative methods) for a host of diseases…. Avoiding grains and sugars is one of the primary ways to do this, as sugar immediately decreases the functioning of your immune system.Following a healthy diet is also of utmost important for anyone battling HIV (or any other chronic illness, for that matter).It may surprise you to learn that the most common cause of death among HIV-positive patients is liver failure, caused by taking toxic drugs.
Kavanagh listed a number of specific issues with certification for open-ocean net-pen aquaculture, including pollution caused by salmon waste, transmission of disease from farmed to wild fish, farmed fish escapes that would dilute the genetics of wild stock, and the use of wild fish for feed. “Wild Alaskan salmon, a very well-managed fishery, was denied organic certification because with wild fish you can’t control the inputs—you don’t know what it’s been eating or where it’s been,” Kavanagh said, ‘so I don’t understand why it would be OK to take wild fish and feed them to farmed fish.
One Fourth of American’s Calories Come From Soda:An interesting study funded by the Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP), intended to identify opportunities for milk producers to develop more “value-added beverages,” speaks volumes about how addicted people really are to sugary soft drinks, long considered the leading source of calories among Americans.By the numbers:Almost half of all Americans (upward from age 4) drink a sugary sweet drink — a presweetened iced tea, fruit drink or carbonated beverage — on a given day.Americans drink nearly a quarter of their total caloric intake every day.More than a third of all the added sugars Americans consume come from soft drinks.A look at these numbers on their own demonstrate, without a doubt, why sugary substances like high fructose corn syrup have been targeted as a major culprit in the obesity epidemic.
