Diets
Effects of the type of food being consumed and the risk of breast cancer is becoming ever more clear. Several studies from this year and the past decade support this link. The long-running Adventist Health Study-2 published their results in August 2025. For this huge report, encompassing almost 80,000 people from Canada and the…
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If you’ve been at all concerned about good nutrition, you have likely come across words like nutraceuticals, functional foods and bioactive compounds and have the impression that these foods may have advantages for your own health. But do you know the differences between these food constituents? What improvements can they make to your well-being and…
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For various reasons, we have become accustomed to looking at our food simply as a mish-mash of carbohydrates, fats and proteins. Sadly, this simplistic view completely ignores the countless other components crucial for optimal health that are available in our foods. One way to measure the healthfulness of individual foods is to determine whether they…
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Messages stating that plant-based diets are expensive appear regularly in our news sources. But these messages are inherently wrong and it bears repeating once again. Eating foods sourced from plants is not a costly way to eat. In June 2025 a survey asked 2,206 US adults if they thought that eating a plant-based diet was…
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It was with surprise that I read the results of a couple of recent studies looking at the power of one word. A 2023 experiment from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) revealed that when foods are labelled as vegan, people are less likely to choose them. Another study from 2022 discovered the same effect. “Vegan”…
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My name is Debra Harley (BScPhm) and I welcome you to my retirement project, this website. Over the course of a life many lessons are learned, altering deeply-rooted ideas and creating new passions.
