BLOG

capsule moment

There is a link between eating red meat and colorectal cancer but it doesn’t mean you have to cut out red meat altogether.  Lean red meat is a good source of iron, zinc, vitamin B12 and protein. Replacing it with poultry or fish and keeping red meat to twice weekly is a good idea.  Smoked process meats are also implicated in increased cancer risk.  Treating these foods like sugary desserts is a good idea….they’re tasty, but you know they are bad.  Keep to a minimum.

The best dental hygeine is flossing twice daily and brushing with a fluoride tooth paste.  Are electric tooth brushes better than regular brushes?  Studies show the electric ones do a better job of removing placque than manual brushes.  They are more expensive but brush at thousands of strokes per minute as opposed to manuals at about 200 strokes per minute.  They are worth the extra expense.

Asthma affects 3 million people in Canada including 600,000 children.  New research studied the presence of allergens from bacteria, dust and pets during the first three years of a child’s life found a link to a lower incidence of asthma in children by the age of seven.  So if your home isn’t “squeaky clean” perhaps it’s good for the children.

Our brain consists of about 100 billion brain cells. The average adult brain weighs about 3 lbs and we often hear about “losing brain cells” and after the age of 20 brain loss is approximately 1 gram per year.  But it’s not the number of brain cells that’s important, it’s what you do to stimulate them.