New nutrition advise from EU... made by coca cola??

New nutrition advise from EU is supposed to make european eat more healthy food. But 10 out of 21 scientists from the workgroup is paid from an institute, International Life Scienses Institute (ILSI), which is constituted by Coca cola, Heinz and Kraft amongst other big companies...

A little fact about calories!

This is how much work out one has to do, to use the calories from a 0,33l beer containing 129 calories.
(this is for a male with a weight of 80kg)

Running: 11 minuttes.
Cycling: 12,5 minuttes.
Soccer: 13,5 minuttes.

I am back again!!!

I am sorry that it has been so long time since the last up date, there are several reasons for that.
The main reason is that i have had some internet problems but those sould be ok now.

So from now on there should be regulare updates on the site.

Once again i am sorry for the delay.

Aspartame comment!

One person has commented on my post on Aspartame: John E. Garst, Ph.D. (Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Toxicology).

He did NOT aggree on what i wrote in my post, and sent me some webpages to check out. And since he is a Ph. D. of cause i checked out the pages, to see if i was wrong.

This is what the article said:

"Aspartame is made from two amino acids, or protein components, aspartic acid and phenylalanine. Aspartic acid and phenylalanine are building blocks of protein that are found in all protein-containing foods, including meats, grains, and dairy products. Aspartame is made when these two amino acids are joined and a methyl group is added. This methyl group breaks down during digestion and forms methanol."

Since i am not a chemist i had to look up what methanol is and what it does to our body. This is what i found out:

Methanol, also known as methyl alcohol, carbinol, wood alcohol, wood naphtha or wood spirits, is a chemical compound with chemical formula CH3OH. It is the simplest alcohol, and is a light, volatile, colourless, flammable, poisonous liquid with a distinctive odor that is somewhat milder and sweeter than ethanol (ethyl alcohol). At room temperature it is a polar liquid and is used as an antifreeze, solvent, fuel, and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol. It is also used for producing biodiesel via transesterification reaction.

Methanol is produced naturally in the anaerobic metabolism of many varieties of bacteria. As a result, there is a small fraction of methanol vapor in the atmosphere. Over the course of several days, atmospheric methanol is oxidized by oxygen with the help of sunlight to carbon dioxide and water.

Methanol is toxic by two mechanisms. Firstly, methanol (whether it enters the body by ingestion, inhalation, or absorption through the skin) can be fatal due to its CNS depressant properties in the same manner as ethanol poisoning. Secondly, it is toxic by its breakdown (toxication) by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase in the liver by forming formic acid and formaldehyde which cause permanent blindness by destruction of the optic nerve. Fetal tissue will not tolerate methanol. Dangerous doses will build up if a person is regularly exposed to vapors or handles liquid without skin protection. If methanol has been ingested, a doctor should be contacted immediately. The usual fatal dose is 100–125 mL (4 fl oz). Toxic effects take hours to start, and effective antidotes can often prevent permanent damage. This is treated using ethanol or fomepizole. Either of these drugs acts to slow down the action of alcohol dehydrogenase on methanol by means of competitive inhibition, so that it is excreted by the kidneys rather than being transformed into toxic metabolites.
The initial symptoms of methanol intoxication are those of central nervous system depression: headache, dizziness, nausea, lack of coordination, confusion, drowsiness, and with sufficiently large doses, unconsciousness and death. The initial symptoms of methanol exposure are usually less severe than the symptoms resulting from the ingestion of a similar quantity of ethyl alcohol.
Once the initial symptoms have passed, a second set of symptoms arises 10–30 hours after the initial exposure to methanol: blurring or complete loss of vision, together with acidosis. These symptoms result from the accumulation of toxic levels of formate in the bloodstream, and may progress to death by respiratory failure. The ester derivatives of methanol do not share this toxicity.

Ethanol is sometimes denatured (adulterated), and thus made undrinkable, by the addition of methanol!!!! The result is known as methylated spirit or "meths" (UK use). (The latter should not be confused with meth, a common abbreviation for methamphetamine.)

I think that this just proves my point, that:

ASPARTAME IS NO GOOD FOR YOUR BODY!!!

Do Aspartame cause Cancer?

Do Aspartame cause Cancer?

After examining rats for eight years, the Italian scientist Morando Soffritti from Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Centre concluded that Aspartame can cause Cancer.

The results, which was made public for the first time in July 2005 and published in USA in Marts 2006 in U.S. Department of Health’s magazine “Environmental Health Perspectives”, contradicts the previous research which was financed by the company who produce Aspartame, G.D. Searle & Company.

Soffritti’s results indicate that Aspartame can cause Cancer in many ways, even when consuming as little as 20mg per kg bodyweight per day. That is less than the amount recommended consuming a day (40-50mg per kg).

His studies also showed that Aspartame increased the growth of tumours by the rats. By the female rats there was an increase of Leukaemia and Lymphomas and Cancer cells in Pelvis and Urethra. By the male rats there was an increase of tumours in the Peripheral nerves.

His studies also showed that Aspartame can NOT help you loose weight…


Does Aspartame make you fat?

Have you ever noticed that the persons who drink light products often are the most overweight? How can that be? Because if the light products worked as they were meant to, then we would all have washboard stomachs…

Besides there have not been made any long term researches on sugar free beverage’s (based on artificial sweets) effect on people’s weight loss.

The opposite seems to be the case. As soon as you taste something sweet on your tongue your body begins to convert the glucose in the blood to fat, which makes the blood sugar drop. Then if the “sweet” that you consume do not contain carbohydrates you will experience low blood sugar and you will feel hunger. The result is that you will eat anything, healthy or not.

Aspartame is not your friend. Aspartame does not save lives. Aspartame is not an efficient product to reduce weight.

If you want to be ealthy: Stay away from products that have Aspartame in them.

It is official: Organic really is better than ordinary produce.

It is official: Organic really is better than ordinary produce.

THE biggest study into organic food has found that it is more nutritious than ordinary produce and may help to lengthen people's lives.
The evidence from the £12m four-year project will end years of debate and is likely to overturn government advice that eating organic food is no more than a lifestyle choice.

The study found that organic fruit and vegetables contained as much as 40% more antioxidants, which scientists believe can cut the risk of cancer and heart disease, Britain’s biggest killers. They also had higher levels of beneficial minerals such as iron and zinc.

Professor Carlo Leifert, the co-ordinator of the European Union-funded project, said the differences were so marked that organic produce would help to increase the nutrient intake of people not eating the recommended five portions a day of fruit and vegetables. “If you have just 20% more antioxidants and you can’t get your kids to do five a day, then you might just be okay with four a day,” he said.
This weekend the Food Standards Agency confirmed that it was reviewing the evidence before deciding whether to change its advice.

Researchers grew fruit and vegetables and reared cattle on adjacent organic and nonorganic sites on a 725-acre farm attached to Newcastle University, and at other sites in Europe. They found that levels of antioxidants in milk from organic herds were up to 90% higher than in milk from conventional herds.

As well as finding up to 40% more antioxidants in organic vegetables, they also found that organic tomatoes from Greece had significantly higher levels of antioxidants, including flavo-noids thought to reduce coronary heart disease.

Source: Times online.

Bonus info on tea.

Bonus info on tea.

Tea has many good features etc.:

Prevents cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
Makes the immune system stronger.
Boosts the metabolism and fat burn.