Category: Food and Risk

The Importance of Nutrition During Cancer Treatment

The Importance of Nutrition During Cancer Treatment

[ 5 ] May 23, 2012 |

Being diagnosed with cancer is shocking and requires time to adjust to the challenges that lie ahead. Those facing treatments for mesothelioma, or any of other type of cancer will need to evaluate diet and the role it will play in recovery. The nutritional requirements of a cancer patient are very different than those of […]

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Aspartame or Sugar: You Decide

Aspartame or Sugar: You Decide

[ 1 ] March 3, 2012 |

Quick fix syndrome. Americans, like people in other developed countries, commonly tend to overeat and then get obese and sick miserably (see America’s Health Rankings). What is even worse is that instead of quickly to cut our meals and start exercising we are looking for an easy solution, like “magic pill” or some effortless dodge […]

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Estimate Risk and Nutrition of Any Processed Food

Estimate Risk and Nutrition of Any Processed Food

[ 0 ] December 29, 2011 |

A year of 2011 is expiring and this is a good time to take a look backward in order to better understand the way walked. The DyeDiet has developed an original food risk and nutrition estimation approach designed to help the consumers to sort out risky foods in favor of healthier more nutritious products. As […]

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America’s Nutritional Choices

America’s Nutritional Choices

[ 20 ] December 23, 2011 |

I see healthy and unhealthy foods in a little bit different way from what the mainstream media promote as “good” and reject as “bad” food. For decades high calorie content has been considered as a “bad” factor. But energy supply is one of the major functions of food that keeps us alive. So in my […]

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Why Do We Need Food Day

Why Do We Need Food Day

[ 0 ] October 19, 2011 |

Food Life needs food. We need food to rebuild some 7 million (out of the total 25 trillion) of red blood cells our body loses every second and hence, yes, “we are what we eat.” But you cannot build living cells from whatever is available or even affordable. To survive we must eat nutritious food, […]

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Natural vs Artificial

Natural vs Artificial

[ 2 ] May 5, 2011 |

We often see the words like  “all natural”, “100% natural”, natural color”, “natural flavor”, “natural ingredients” and “natural anti-oxidants” as the indications of healthy foods. The opposite is true when we read something like “artificial flavor”, “artificial food coloring”, “synthetic chemical” which we always see in a negative sense as the signs of an unhealthy […]

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Food Toxicity and Moderation

Food Toxicity and Moderation

[ 5 ] April 17, 2011 |

“Healthy food,” “healthy diet,” “healthy lifestyle”… Perhaps you hear these words everywhere. But what healthy food really is? What is healthy for one may not be healthy for another person. The DyeDiet approach (see Food Definition  and DyeDiet Food Risk and Nutrition Explained) is built on the fact that any living species, human included, need nutrition to support their lives. This […]

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How Much Dyes Do We Eat?

How Much Dyes Do We Eat?

[ 1 ] April 8, 2011 |

FDA Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) of the Food Dyes According to the CSPI, total amount of colors certified by the FDA in the Fiscal Year of 2009 was 15,016.634 pounds or 6,817.552 kg or 6,800 tons that were all eaten by the US public (see food-dyes-rainbow-of-risks). This means 6,817.552/300 millions ~ 23 g per capita. Isn’t this too much? Let us […]

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Most Risky Food in America

Most Risky Food in America

[ 1 ] April 1, 2011 |

DyeDiet Food Risk Overview It has been two months since the DyeDiet started publication of its concept and analysis of health risks associated with consumption of food and food additives. So far 28 popular brands of food and soft drinks from 8 food categories were discussed in terms of food risks so to help American consumers to make more informed, less […]

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Food Safety Risk Explanation

Food Safety Risk Explanation

[ 4 ] March 28, 2011 |

How YOU and YOUR children may benefit: Understanding the DyeDiet Food Safety Risk concept gives you a gauge which helps you to indentify and avoid chemical hazards in your and your child’s diet. When you feel that you can rely on the DyeDiet analysis you may choose not to try solving the puzzles of ingredients […]

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