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Featured Recipe: Decadent Better-Fat Walnut Brownies

The following recipe for decadent, healthy brownies is just for readers of this newsletter, “In Step With Jonny”—it’s an advance preview of our forthcoming book, “The 150 Healthiest 15-Minute Meals on Earth” by myself and my co-author, chef extraordinaire Jeannette Bessinger. Enjoy!

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What Nutritional Labels Really Mean

Nutritional labels- often confusing for even the most sophisticated consumers- contain a lot of information. Some of it is useful. A good deal of it is not. Let me explain.

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What’s the Real Deal on Collodial Silver?

If someone told you that they were in possession of something that could cure any illness almost instantaneously, would you believe it? If you were told that there was a small risk of permanently changing the color of your skin, would you be willing to run the risk and take it anyway?

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Antioxidants Lower the Risk for Heart Disease!

If you read the popular media, you’ve probably gotten the impression that antioxidant supplements don’t “work”. Don’t believe everything you read in the paper. While it’s true that certain studies examining single nutrients have sometimes shown disappointing results—like the famous beta-carotene study a few years back—dozens of other studies have shown the profoundly beneficial effect [...]

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Are Gourmet Salts Better For Your Health?

There are an awful lot of claims being made for gourmet salt and they fall into two categories: health benefits and taste. The wide variety of tastes and textures available in gourmet salts is undeniable (more on that in a moment). The health benefits… not so much. Many integrative medicine experts — like David B, [...]

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Blueberries May Help Deter Diabetes!

By Craig Weatherby A daily smoothie containing antioxidant-rich blueberry powder increased sensitivity to insulin in people at risk for diabetes. As a result, the researchers believe that blueberries may reduce the risk of developing the dreaded lifestyle disease, and they called for more research. The placebo-controlled clinical trial involved people who were obese and had [...]

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What you need to know about the new dietary guidelines

Ever wonder how the Food Pyramid gets created? Well sit back and relax, cause this is an interesting story. Every five years, both the USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services are required by law to jointly update and publish the “Dietary Guidelines for Americans”. The first thing they do is to convene [...]

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Kombucha Tea: What’s the Real Deal?

If you’re one of the many people who takes celebrities seriously as a source of information on nutrition and fitness, you might be wondering if there’s anything to kombucha tea, the latest (but certainly not the last) trendy drink that’s reportedly loved by everyone from Lindsay Lohan to Madonna. The short answer is “not really”. [...]

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A Health Guru Dies of Cancer

Last week, I wrote of the sad and untimely death of the great nutritionist and educator Robert Crayhon who lost his battle with colon cancer at the age of 49. Last year, around this same time, we lost another of our greats, the nutritionist and author Shari Lieberman, who died at 51 of breast cancer. [...]

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Featured Recipe: Avocado Soup with Cheesy Tortillas in No Time

The following recipe is just for readers of this newsletter, “In Step With Jonny”—it’s an advance preview of our forthcoming book, “The 150 Healthiest 15-Minute Meals on Earth” by myself and my co-author, chef extraordinaire Jeannette Bessinger. Enjoy!

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Consumers Reports on Dangerous Supplements

The September issue of Consumers Reports- the same one that famously dissed the iPhone 4 for not being able to make decent phone calls- has a cover story entitled “The 12 Most Dangerous Supplements”. It deserves a comment or two, first about Consumers Reports in general, second about the specifics of the article.

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Media Culpa: More Low-Fat Lies (Part Two)

Last week I told you about a study that got a ton of press in the media, a study that concluded that animal-based low-carb diets were associated with greater rates of death over time than vegetable-based low-carb diets. In the intervening week, I’ve had a chance to interview Dr. Teresa Fung, the lead author of [...]

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