A study shows that eating two eggs for breakfast as part of a reduced-calorie diet, helps overweight adults lose more weight and feel more energetic than those who eat a bagel breakfast of equal calories. This study supports previous research which showed that people who ate eggs for breakfast felt more satisfied and ate fewer calories at the following meal.Compared to the subjects who ate a bagel breakfast, men and women who consumed two eggs for breakfast as part of a reduced-calorie diet:

• Lost 65 percent more weight
• Exhibited a 61 percent greater reduction in BMI
• Reported higher energy levels

The egg and bagel breakfasts provided the same number of calories.

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Herbs and spices are rich in antioxidants, and they are also potent inhibitors of tissue damage and inflammation caused by high levels of blood sugar.

When researchers tested extracts from 24 common herbs and spices, they found a direct correlation between antioxidant phenol content and the ability of the extracts to block the formation of compounds that contribute to damage caused by diabetes and aging.

Spices such as cloves and cinnamon have phenol levels that are 30 percent and 18 percent of dry weight, respectively, while herbs such as oregano and sage are 8 and 6 percent phenol by dry weight. Blueberries, which are widely touted for their antioxidant capabilities, contain roughly 5 percent phenol by dry weight.

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You might expect a shampoo labeled “pure, natural and organic” to be, well, pure, natural and organic. So you may have been shocked — and not a little ticked off — to learn that many of your favorite natural body care products contain a nasty petrochemical linked to cancer.

The bad news broke in March at the Natural Products Expo in Anaheim, California, with the release of product tests that found 1,4 dioxane, a probable human carcinogen, in 46 out of 100 personal care products marketed as “organic” or “natural,” including top-selling brands such as JASON Pure Natural & Organic, Giovanni Organic and Nature’s Gate Organics. The tests were conducted by author David Steinman and the non-profit organization Organic Consumers Association (OCA).
The timing of the release — in the midst of the world’s largest natural-products trade show — was no doubt calculated for maximum splash to capture the industry’s attention. That it did. And the waves haven’t stopped since.

After the press conference, lawyers for Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps — makers of products that tested clean of 1,4 dioxane (and financial backers of the tests conducted by Steinman and OCA) — threatened legal action against several companies. After discussions ended in a stalemate, Dr. Bronner’s filed lawsuits in April against 10 manufacturers and three organic certifiers for their use of alleged “fraudulent organic claims.”

In May, the California Attorney General’s office filed suit against four manufacturers of products that tested highest for 1,4-dioxane, for failing to warn consumers about exposure to a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer, as required by the state’s Proposition 65 law (see sidebar).
Two separate questions are swirling in the tempest: Should “natural” body care products contain toxic petrochemicals? And how organic should “organic” personal care products really be? Opinions are aligned on the first question and run the gamut on the second. But one thing is certain: the storm that has been brewing behind the scenes in the natural products industry for years is now out in the open, forcing manufacturers to confront some difficult issues that will define the future of the burgeoning $15 billion industry.

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(NaturalNews) On the heels of Olympian Michael Phelps’ deal with Kellogg’s to promote sugary breakfast cereals — a move for which he was widely criticized — NaturalNews has learned that Phelps is also involved in a deal with McDonald’s to introduce Chinese children to American junk food. According to Xinhuanet.com, a mainstream news source in China, Michael Phelps is serving as an ambassador for a program sponsored by McDonald’s to bring Chinese children to the Olympics and serve them American fast food.

But keep reading, and see why Michael Phelps may deserve another chance at being a true hero, and why I’ve personally volunteered to be his nutrition coach.

Pushing junk foods is an American tradition, it seems. Introduce a nation to our processed foods and junk foods, and in just one generation, its population will need our high-profit pharmaceuticals and chemotherapy drugs, too. Because once a nation starts eating American junk foods, degenerative disease is not far behind: Cancer, diabetes, depression, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, osteoporosis, infertility, behavior disorders and a whole lot more. These are the debilitating health conditions caused by eating fast food and junk food on a regular basis. (Just ask Morgan Spurlock of Supersize Me.)

Coke, Pepsi, McDonald’s… these are the food industry ambassadors of the United States, it seems, and in my opinion they only bring disease and death to the countries they target. Olympian Michael Phelps is currently an active participant in this “junk food imperialism” that’s sweeping through China, ensnaring hundreds of millions of children in a junk food diet that may doom many of them to deadly diseases later in life.

Of course, if you ask Coke, Pepsi and McDonald’s, all their products are perfectly healthy and there’s no relationship between fast food and poor health. Perhaps that’s what Michael Phelps believes, too. But no informed consumer (or even doctor) believes that anymore. It is now common knowledge that sugary soda pop contributes to obesity, diabetes and bone loss. It is also common knowledge that eating at McDonald’s on a regular basis is extremely unhealthy. Just look at the nutrition facts on a Big Mac: An incredible 29 grams of fat, 10 grams of heart-clogging saturated fat, virtually no fiber and over a thousand milligrams of sodium! And that doesn’t even count the fries and Coke that usually accompany it.

If we want to see China become a meat-eating, environment-destroying, health-suppressing, disease-infested cattle-factory abyss like much of America, then rounding up Chinese children and bringing them to McDonald’s is certainly the way to accomplish that.

Michael Phelps introduces Chinese children to McDonald’s

To see Michael Phelps serving as an ambassador to McDonald’s, actively engaged in recruiting Chinese children to become McDonald’s customers, is downright disturbing. Sipping sugary sodas, chewing on unhealthful, inhumane meat products and eating French fries loaded with acrylamides is not exactly the kind of habit a champion should encourage in others. And this doesn’t even mention the brainwashing and child behavior conditioning pursued by McDonald’s to imprint happiness on children’s impressionable young brains, even while they’re being fed extremely unhealthful foods that may ultimately harm them.

See the picture here of Michael Phelps bringing Chinese children to McDonald’s:

Sad, isn’t it? Here’s an Olympic champion using his fame to recruit innocent Chinese children into an American junk food restaurant. I guess the only saving point in all this is that when those children need organ transplants later in life, they will have easy access to them thanks to the organ harvesting black market in China which suddenly seems to have a whole lot of kidneys and livers available following the arrest and rounding up of free speech protestors and Falun Gong members.

If Michael Phelps is an ambassador of McDonald’s, in my opinion he is an ambassador of disease, death and bankruptcy. America is the world’s largest exporter of disease, and Michael Phelps appears to be right at the forefront of this effort.

But it’s not too late… can Phelps redeem himself? Keep reading…

What would Michael Phelps’ mother think of him pushing junk foods?

Astoundingly, Michael Phelps’ own mother has been teaching nutrition to local schoolchildren at the middle school where she works. NaturalNews has learned that Phelps’ mother, Deborah Phelps, “…designed and implemented an interdisciplinary, award-winning nutrition and food science curriculum, created a state-of-the-art food science lab and was a member of a variety of school improvement committees.”

This is reported on the Windsor Mill Middle School website in Baltimore, Maryland, where Deborah Phelps is the Principal of the school. You can read it yourself here:

http://schools.bcps.org/schools/cms/win…

What would Deborah Phelps think of Michael Phelps pushing McDonald’s and Frosted Flakes to children? If she cares about the health of children, she would likely be outraged at Michael’s actions, but we haven’t interviewed Deborah, so we can’t say for sure. What we can say, however, is that Michael Phelps’ promotions of McDonald’s and sugary breakfast cereals directly contradicts his own mother’s publicly-stated nutrition programs designed for schoolchildren.

Then again, Deborah Phelps probably isn’t being paid ten million dollars to design healthy food choices for schoolchildren. She’s simply doing it because she has a professional responsibility to her school’s children and it’s the right thing to do.

In the next article, I announce my willingness to volunteer as Michael Phelps’ nutritionist, helping him exceed his eight gold medals by preparing for the 2012 Olympics using the world’s most powerful superfoods and nutritional know-how. With superfoods nutrition boosting his performance to even higher levels, Phelps would truly be the greatest champion in the history of Olympic swimming.

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(NaturalNews) In previous articles here on NaturalNews, I’ve criticized Olympian Michael Phelps for promoting McDonald’s fast food and sugary breakfast cereals to children. I’ve also reported on Phelps’ atrocious diet of processed foods and the astonishing fact that his own mother designed nutrition programs at a middle school in Maryland where she serves as the Principal. But rather than merely criticizing Phelps, I think it’s important to educate the young man about a better solution than junk foods: Superfoods and plant-based nutrition!

In this article, you’ll read my message for Phelps where I urge him to turn to superfoods nutrition if he wants to do well in the 2012 Olympics. I also volunteer my own services as his nutrition coach, and I even offer to retract my criticism articles on NaturalNews if he will announce an end to his promotions of junk foods.

Here’s the message to Phelps:

Michael Phelps: You can still be a hero to America!

Here’s a message straight to Michael Phelps: It’s not too late for you to be a true hero! You can end your endorsements of junk foods and hold a press conference, announcing you will from now on limit your endorsements to those products that receive approval from an advisory board of informed nutritionists (or a similar group). You can transcend your tremendous victories as an athlete and become a multi-faceted champion for health, serving as a role model for hundreds of millions of children around the world.

And if you choose to pursue this route of socially-responsible endorsements, you will even transcend the other celebrities who have failed to make such responsible choices, positioning yourself as a champion among champions — a person who not only has astounding athletic skills, but who also has an open heart and a sense of compassion for fellow human beings.

Michael Phelps, if you make the choice to end your promotions of junk foods and processed foods — and instead promote healthful foods for children — NaturalNews will retract our previous stories about you and write a glowing review of how you have transformed both inside and outside the Olympics, becoming a true role model for your many fans.

Here at NaturalNews, we can’t financially compete with a million-dollar deal from Kellogg’s, but with our option, you get your ethics back, too. The entire natural health community, I’m sure, is urging you to reconsider your endorsements, and should you choose to do so, you could emerge as a remarkable champion worth so much more to the world than mere money.

Here’s a bonus: You want to kick butt in the 2012 Olympics? The diet you’ve been eating is holding you back. If you switch to a diet of superfoods and plant-based nutrients, your performance can take a quantum leap forward. If you really want to go down in history as the best swimmer ever — and perhaps win NINE gold medals in 2012, superfoods nutrition is the the missing piece that will get you there.

At age 23, junk food seems like it doesn’t affect you. But believe me, it does. And at age 27, it will clobber you. Your swimming career depends on you maximizing your nutrition, and you can’t do that eating McDonald’s, Corn Flakes and pizza.

In fact, I personally volunteer to be your nutrition advisor, should you ever want to take me up on that offer. No charge. I don’t have anything against you personally, Michael, but if you continue to use your celebrity status to promote junk foods, you will never be a true role model. Yet, if you make the choice to leave the Dark Side and embrace honest nutrition (for yourself and for others), you can be a multi-faceted champion the world will never forget.

Do you want to be remembered as the Olympian who won eight gold medals and then bombed out in 2012 while cashing in on junk food endorsements? Or do you want to be a repeat world champion who serves as an inspiration to millions, both in and out of the pool?

The world will respond to your choices. YOU are the one who determines whether the response is positive or negative. You are writing your own history now. I urge you to use this opportunity to MAKE history. Transcend your sport. Become a champion of a human being for people everywhere! Ditch the junk foods. Endorse healthful foods. Earn the right to remain a celebrated human being.

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