Nutrition and Health Resources

Lies that Mainstream Nutrition Has Told You
http://io9.com/5984275/the-worst-lies-that-mainstream-nutrition-has-told-you?tag=debunkery

Creepiest Lies the Food Industry Is Feeding You
http://www.cracked.com/article_19896_the-6-creepiest-lies-food-industry-feeding-you.html


Shocking side effects of foods you eat everyday
http://www.cracked.com/article_20177_5-shocking-side-effects-foods-you-eat-every-day.html

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Reputable Sources

Health Benefits of Exercise-  The Mayo Clinic
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/exercise/HQ01676

The Center for Disease Control- Benefits of Exercise
http://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/everyone/health/

Pub Med.gov
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

Healthy or Hype- The Most Misleading Food Labels
http://www.cbsnews.com/8334-504763_162-57449218-10391704/healthy-or-hype-16-most-misleading-food-labels/


Center for Science in the Public Interest
http://www.cspinet.org/
The difficulty in predicting calorie counts- Calorie counts on menus

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Do you think that taste is objective?   Can words manipulate taste?

Penn and Teller Bullshit-  Bottled Water Video

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Renamed foods-

Chilean Sea Bass-  Patagonian Toothfish
Mahi Mahi-   Dolphinfish
Dried plums- prunes
Calamari-  Squid
Rocky Mountain Oysters-   just look it up
Orange Roughy- slimehead
Freedom Fries- French Fries
Cavier--- Fish Eggs


renaming fruits and veggies with catchy names to convince kids to eat them   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/17/renaming-fruits-and-vegetables_n_1891562.html

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Is it all as simple as "calories in/ calories out?"
No.  There is the example of the Michael Phelps diet.  12,000 calories a day.
Exercise alone couldn't account for burning that many calories.
Water for 8 hours a day changes the amount of energy your body expands to maintain core temperature.
Need the high science explanation   http://www.livestrong.com/article/154168-how-to-lose-weight-with-cold-showers/


Tim Ferriss's idea.-   Slow Carb diet

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Genetically modified food

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Rob Wolf-  The Paleo Diet

Rich Roll- The Vegan Super Athlete

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bodybuilding.com
this seems to be an attempt to sell products, but the information seems helpful

livestrong.com

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