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Search for 'Nutrition for a Healthy Body' could lead to Analysis Paralysis!
There has been a lot of social attention on 'right nutrition' in recent years, leading to experimenting in different types of foods including herbal preparations. While I have no doubt that such heightened social consciousness and continued scientific investigation will ultimately benefit humankind, right now one can't help feeling that too much information can be self-defeating. Why or how am I saying this? Ah! Herein lies a story. You see, the spotlight on 'healthy living' had initially led me to doubt as to whether I knew enough about nutrition.
So, I decided to embark on a quest for more information on healthier nutrition and living. I did my research on the web, where I found approximately 221,000 results to my query. Never one to back away from a task that I set my mind on, I sallied forth and began working...
It begins by talking about several do-good benefits of tea (" can reduce the risk of death after a heart attack by 44%,") but proceeds to contradict itself at the end ("A Californian study found no effect of tea on cardiovascular risk"; "Tea drinking was positively associated with increased coronary risk in a Welsh population")?
I could give you…
Works Cited
Organic Foods: Growers, Buyers and Bugs." "Safe and Sound." November-December 1998. Resource web site. URL:
http://outreach.missouri.edu/hesnutrnews/index.htm
Tea may help protect against heart disease, cancer and osteoporosis." Healthy eating club newsletter. June 2002. URL:
http://www.healthyeatingclub.com/index.htm
http://www.all-natural.com/ames.html
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