Reducing Heart Disease

Eating dark chocolate and drinking red wine may help you reduce your risk of heart disease.

These foods, also including apples and pears, contain flavonoids (antioxidant compounds) that may help you reduce your 'bad' cholesterol.

Tempted to indulge a little? Just remember, too much of anything is a bad thing...

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Fashion Week Food Diaries

And if you thought Fashion Week didn't get enough coverage in the media, you obviously were mistaken. The food diaries of various industry professionals were recorded in New York Magazine; including those of models and a show producer.

Not only am I getting hungry just thinking about the salmon with sweet mashed potatoes that Denise Mullin (female model) ate, but it also provides insight into the busy lives of industry professionals.

Everyone seems to drink a lot of tea, water, and wine though. Substituting liquids for solids? Eh. No thanks.


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Banning McDonald's

On a visit to the United Arab Emirates, Prince Charles inquired one of the nutritionists at the Imperial College London Diabetes Center in Abu Dhabi if they banned McDonald's food yet as part of their public health campaign. According to him, it's the key to a more successfully healthy lifestyle.

The McDonald's corporation was disappointed, as they've been providing nutritional facts and changing its menu to answer to health concerns. They considered it an attack on the company.

Perhaps Prince Charles wasn't trying to attack the company; perhaps he was speaking about the general unhealthiness of the fast food industry as a whole. Then, it would be flattery that McDonald's is the quintessence and most well-known example of fast food.

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