The Institution of Mechanical Engineers recently released a report stating that a staggering 30-50% of food in the world just ends up being tossed in the dumps instead of feeding hungry mouths. Thirty percent of the UK's produce is left to rot because the vegetables don't look blue-ribbon worthy. Per capita food waste in the United States has been a steady 50% since 1974. But don't think that third world countries hang on to every edible morsel either: food wastage in developing parts of Asia and Africa, primarily due to poor harvesting, storage, and handling of produce, is on par with the wastage of North America and Europe.The rate of over a billion tons of wasted food every year makes very little sense, particularly when considering the inflation of commodity prices, worldwide economic disparity, the tools at our disposal to prevent food spoilage, and the dire environmental issues looming over our heads. While there is little you can do to put any kind of measurable ding in that massive pile of food, there is a tremendous amount you can do right now to reduce your contribution to it. Here are 10 simple tips to help you and your family with this needless problem. (more...)
Half of the World’s Food is Wasted
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers recently released a report stating that a staggering 30-50% of food in the world just ends up being tossed in the dumps instead of feeding hungry mouths. Thirty percent of the UK's produce is left to rot because the vegetables don't look blue-ribbon worthy. Per capita food waste in the United States has been a steady 50% since 1974. But don't think that third world countries hang on to every edible morsel either: food wastage in developing parts of Asia and Africa, primarily due to poor harvesting, storage, and handling of produce, is on par with the wastage of North America and Europe.The rate of over a billion tons of wasted food every year makes very little sense, particularly when considering the inflation of commodity prices, worldwide economic disparity, the tools at our disposal to prevent food spoilage, and the dire environmental issues looming over our heads. While there is little you can do to put any kind of measurable ding in that massive pile of food, there is a tremendous amount you can do right now to reduce your contribution to it. Here are 10 simple tips to help you and your family with this needless problem. (more...)Diabetes Spending Spree: Costs Up 41% Since 2007
Perhaps the most meaningful health slogan for the next decade is: "Don't get beat by diabetes." With fast food item sizes more than tripling since the 1950s, our bodies have taken the brunt of the excess everything--the calories, the fat, the sodium and the chemicals that infuse these health robbers. That's right--the average weight of a fast food burger in the 1950's was 3.9 ounces. Today? A whooping 12! Sodas? They've grown five times their original seven ounces to a staggering 42. The serving size of french fries has nearly tripled as well. And while the average weight of an average American has not necessarily tripled, it has crept up by about 20%, as has waist size.
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"Sugar is indeed toxic".Or so says journalist Mark Bittman in his New York Times editorial last week. In it, Mr. Bittman interprets for the reader the results of a study recently published in the journal PloS One titled "The Relationship of Sugar to Population-Level Diabetes Prevalence". "It isn't simply overeating that can make you sick; it's overeating sugar. We finally have the proof we need for a verdict."That verdict, needless, to say, is not a good one.Sugar, in its various forms, has certainly taken a drubbing in the last decade for both its ubiquity and its apparent negative impact on health. Experts and layman alike have made it's vilification their signature cause, from doctors like Robert Lustig to bestselling authors like Leighton Steward. Study after study, we are told, proves that sugar does, indeed, destroy health and is the cause of today's most pressing health crises. And so, as Common Sense and Mark Bittman would tell us, Sugar must be amputated from the Human diet.But is the Truth so clear cut? Is Sugar - in any of it's forms - the true and singular cause of diabetes in America? Must sugar be walked to the plank and thrown to the sea? (more...)
SmartyPants Vitamins Adds a Tasty Boost of Nutrition to The Integrative Healthcare Symposium
SmartyPants is bringing its great-tasting, all-in-one gummy multivitamins with essential Omega 3s and Vitamin D to one of America's most prestigious forums for professionals in integrative medicine, Feb. 27 to March 2, 2013, at the Hilton New York."We are delighted to offer a delicious taste of California’s sparkling, good nutrition in the only gummy vitamin that combines the vitamins and minerals your body requires, and what the USDA defends you should have every day," exclaimed Courtney Nichols Gould. Gould is acclaimed Co-CEO and Co-Founder of SmartyPants, makers of SmartyPants for Kids, SmartyPants for GrownUps and SmartyPants for Weight Management All-in-One Multivitamins with Omega 3s and Vitamin D. (more...)
Healthy Living Reduces Early Death by 50% in Women
If you're like most people, living the ultimate healthy life is pie in the sky thinking - something for which to strive, but seemingly an impossible feat. You get your exercise regime hammered out, and you're suddenly on your fourth cigarette. You finally get back to yoga, and your third night of take out sneaks its way in to your week. A busy lifestyle makes it hard to put all of the pieces of the healthy puzzle together. How much does each piece cost us? And if not assembled correctly, will it cost us our life?Researchers from the Harvard school of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital say that a combination of unhealthy lifestyle factors, especially cigarette smoking, can rob us of precious life. Dr Rob van Dam and his team studied nearly 80 000 women aged 34 to 59 years in 1980, and for a follow-up period of 24 years. During this time frame, the authors tallied nearly 9000 deaths, including close to 2000 from heart disease, and about 4500 from cancer. (more...)
High Fructose Corn Syrup: Weekly Web Round Up
High Fructose Corn syrup is everywhere these days - on your plate, in your drinks...and in your news. Read on to learn what the web has been saying about High Fructose Corn Syrup. (more...)Nutrition and Exercise: Losing Weight and the Web
As windows darken with dinner time, and as we don jackets to temper the chill, it's tempting to munch comfort foods, conceal that "winter padding" under bulky sweaters and coats, and rationalize that we'll take care of it come spring. But fitness experts remind us that weight loss is not only about how we look, but about how we feel, and our health. (more...)Multivitamins May Cut Cancer Risk by 8%: JAMA Paper
According to a new study from researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Womens Hospital, usage of a low-dose daily multivitamin appears to reduce overall cancer risk by 8% in men.The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzed data from nearly 15,000 mean for over a decade. Half the men took a daily multivitamin and half took a placebo for an average period of 11.2 years. The study, entitled “Multivitamins in the Prevention of Cancer in Men - The Physicians’ Health Study II Randomized Controlled Trial”, is the only the only large-scale, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial investigating the long-term effects of a common multivitamin in the prevention of chronic disease.How Multivitamins and Omega 3's Save Lives and Money
"A multivitamin is the cheapest health insurance a person will ever buy," said Dr Balz Frie, Distinguished Professor of Biophysics at the Linus Pauling Institute. Dr Frie was commenting independently of the study and went on to say that an 8% drop in cancer rates is significant in lives and money that might be saved by daily multivitamin use:"Given that more than 1.6 million cancer cases are diagnosed each year, this [daily multivitamin use] translates into about 130,000 cancers prevented every year, and with all the health care costs and human suffering," said Dr Frei. (more...)Childhood Obesity: Top 10 Posts from Around the Web
The month of September has been deemed National Childhood Obesity Month by the organization Action for Healthy Kids. This is a time to pay close attention to this issue, as obesity rates for children have tripled in the past 30 years, according to the Center for Disease Control. Here at SmartyPants, we wanted to bring you the latest information from around the web on this important topic affecting our nation’s youth. (more...)SmartyPants Vitamins Receives Ashley Koff Stamp of Approval
SmartyPants Gummy Vitamins, the All-in-One Multivitamin for kids and adults, recently received the Ashley Koff RD Stamp of Approval!Ashley Koff is a world-renown Registered Dietician (R.D.) who makes regular appearances on national television programs like Dr. Oz, CNN, Good Morning America, Access Hollywood, and E! She also frequently appears in national publications like The New York Times, O! The Oprah Magazine, Women's Health, and InStyle, among others. Ashley is committed to endorsing only products that contribute to a healthy way of living, coining the phrase “qualitarian” to denote such products. Koff's “qualitarian” philosophy is founded on choosing to eat the healthiest and highest quality foods available. (more...)Latest Blog Articles
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