There’s no disputing that eating more green vegetables is beneficial for weight loss. Broccoli, spinach, peppers, kale, romaine lettuce, etc all provide tons of high quality nutrition for a minimal caloric impact.
That being said, they aren’t the only green products that contribute to a great physique. Today I’m going to spotlight another great “green” product to boost your body transformation efforts: green tea.
What is tea?
Although many beverages are marketed as tea, most are actually “herbal” teas or tisanes. Real tea must come from the Camelia Sinesis plant. This means that only white, green, oolong and black teas are actually beverages that can call themselves tea.
Since all the teas come from the same plant, what makes them have different health properties and taste?
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First off, Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian readers!
Our national holiday marks the unofficial start to our all-too-brief summer season and what is more quintessential Canadian summer than rushing outside to soak up some rays?
But before you run off to the beach or up to the cottage, you mustn’t forget about protecting yourself from the sun, right? I mean, that’s the message we’ve had drilled into our collective psyches over the past 30 years, often through the use of creative ad campaigns.
Take Australia’s sun protection message that began in 1981: Slip-Slop-Slap. This campaign, which counsels people to “slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, and slap on a hat”, has been heralded as both ingenious and necessary, given that Australia has one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world.
Clearly, governments around the world have decided there’s tremendous value in promoting the message: too much sun exposure = skin cancer.
Given how diligent we, as Canadians, seem to be about applying sun screen before any outdoor activities, it appears as though we’ve received the “protect yourself from sun message” loud and clear… only one small problem: this message is in stark contrast to the data.
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Yesterday I was looking over the 2010 Dietitians of Canada conference program taking place this weekend. I’m not a dietitian, nor am I planning on attending the conference. However, I respect the work of many dietitians and I like to see if there are any interesting presentations being given that I may need to track down once the conference is over.
While I did spot a couple of talks I think have potential (The Role of Microbiota in Medical Nutrition Therapy and The Alkaline Diet: Acid, Nutrient Excretion, Urine pH and Disease were two of the more interesting titles), most of the topics seemed rather mundane. However, I did encounter a few things that really got me worked up… and not in a good way. The list of organizations financially backing this conference was both shocking and appalling.
Dietitians of Canada is supposed to be the organization entrusted with providing us the best nutrition information available. Although in a perfect world, you’d love to see a completely unbiased organization offering health advice, I’m not so naïve as to expect that to ever happen. However, couldn’t our national health organizations at least pretend they weren’t getting massive amounts of industry money to make the claims they do? Just look at some of the organizations sponsoring several of the events and talks:
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