Lee

Can you imagine spending four years in undergraduate school and two or three more years to get a Ph.D. and then when your proud dad (who supported you all those years) asks, “What are you working on son?” Your answer – “I’m conducting a study to see if you should eat food that you’ve...
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We love our French fries, don’t we. Perhaps our love wouldn’t be so strong if we stopped to analyze what the nutritional consequences of downing an order of fries are. One large order (6 ounces) of French fries from your favorite fast-food restaurant gives you about 570 calories, roughly half of which are from...
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Do you love fettuccine Alfredo? I must admit that I enjoy it from time to time. If it is one of your favorite foods, perhaps you should read this post. Fettuccine Alfredo consists of strips of pasta immersed in butter, cream and Parmesan cheese. You’ve got to love it! But this appetizing food has...
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This falls squarely in the “Who Knew” category. It looks like watermelon lovers may not be the only lovers who should be eating watermelon. Bhimanagouda S. Patil, PhD, director of the Vegetable and Fruit Development Center at Texas A&M University has found that watermelon has ingredients which seem to provide a Viagra-like effect. Watermelon...
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This is not what we want to hear, but emerging evidence shows a link between cell phone usage and benign and malignant tumors of the salivary gland. A recent report on the American Journal of Epidemiology published findings from Israel. Researchers compared the lifetime cell phone use of 1,300 adults with 500 adults who...
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