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Los cuatro nuevos grupos alimenticios
Los cuatro nuevos grupos alimenticios *Asegúrese de incluir una buena fuente de vitamina B12, como cereales enriquecidos o suplementos vitamínico 3 ó más porciones diarias Las frutas son ricas en fibra, vitamina C y be |
Doctors Urge House to Reject “Cheeseburger Bill”
WASHINGTON–The so-called “Cheeseburger Bill,” scheduled for a House vote this week, is anti-consumer and anti-health, says the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. The “Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act,” |
Pautas para hacer el cambio a una dieta vegetariana
Las comidas de preparación rápida ahorran tiempo en la cocina. Los supermercados y las tiendas de alimentos naturales ofrecen una gran variedad de sopas instantáneas y artículos de preparación rápida vegetarianos para sus platos |
Alimentos Vegtarianos
Herramientas poderosas para la salud El seguir un menú vegetariano representa una manera eficaz y placentera de lograr un buen estado de salud. El patrón de la alimentación vegetariana se basa en una gran variedad de alimentos que son deliciosos, salud |
Fact Sheets and FAQs
PCRM Online Marketplace Shop online to get the very best books, information, merchandise, and resources on diet, health, and ethical issues > Complimentary Literature and Downloadable Fact Sheets Download and print complimentary brochures and fact sheets on nutrition, |
Trade Your Smelly Lipitor Bottle for a Vegetarian Starter Kit!
Are you one of the hundreds of thousands who had to dump their Lipitor pills due to Pfizer’s recall? Drugmaker Pfizer recently expanded its recall of the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor after reports of a musty odor in more bottles. This recall affects 38,000 bottles, on top of the more than 300,000 bottles |
Vegan Diet Puts Brakes on Prostate Cancer
A combination of a vegan diet, regular exercise, and stress management caused prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels to retreat in a group of prostate cancer patients, according to new data presented by Dean Ornish, M.D., at the Scientific Conference on Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Therapies a |
The Worst Low-Carb Restaurant Entrées
The Worst Low-Carb Restaurant Entrées A Report by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine March 2004 As the food industry tries to cash in on the low-carbohydrate craze, many restaurant chains are adding menu items labeled “low-carb,” & |
Congress Must Not Grant Legal Immunity to Big Food
By Neal D. Barnard, M.D. This piece was published Mar. 17, 2004, in the Philadelphia Inquirer Imagine yourself an 8-year-old growing up in 2004. If you’re a normal kid, you watch—and take as gospel—about 10,000 food-related commercials a year, the vas |
Confusing New Food Pyramid Misleads Consumers About Healthy Eating
By Tim Radak, DrPH, R.D. This op-ed was published in the Des Moines Register, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and other newspapers. It took four years and a whopping $2.4 million, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture has finally rolled out a redesigned version of the Food Guide Pyram |
Obesity Still Poses Serious Threat to Public Health
By Amy Joy Lanou, Ph.D. This piece was published in the Dallas Morning News and the Akron Beacon Journal. Is the obesity epidemic over? Can we call off the fight against fat and stop worrying about unhealthy eating habits? Many Americans are now asking such questions—b |
New National TV Ad Calls for a Hot Dog Ban in Schools
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Schools should stop serving hot dogs and other processed meats because even small amounts increase the risk of adult cancer, says a provocative new commercial airing on TV stations around the country. The spot is produced by the Cancer Project, an affiliate of the Physicians Committee for Res |
Doctors Seek to Ban Hot Dogs and Similar Meats from School Lunches; Federal Petition for Rulemaking Filed with USDA Just Before National School Lunch
WASHINGTON—As the country prepares to mark National School Lunch Week, a national cancer education organization is seeking to push hot dogs out of school cafeterias. In a petition for rulemaking being filed this morning, the Cancer Project seeks to compel the U.S. Department of Agriculture to stop distributin |
Breast Cancer Epidemic Looms in China
China is on the cusp of a breast cancer epidemic, according to the current issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Using data from the Chinese National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Survey, researchers estimated that the current breast cancer incidence—10 to 60 cases per 100,000 women& |
Eggs-tremely Disgusting: Inspectors Uncover Factory Farm Filth in Iowa
By Susan Levin, M.S., R.D. Sept. 1, 2010 Could it get any worse? Answer: YES. At first, I listened with only half an ear to a radio report about federal inspectors discovering yet more disturbing conditions at one of the egg facilities at the center of the salmonella controversy. I was already saturated with |
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