Nothing pisses me off more than deliberately misleading advertising. Want to eat healthier and buy whole grain products? Good luck — this article explains why no one knows how much whole grain there is in some products.
From Business Week:
July 23, 2008, 12:01AM EST
If you want to control your blood sugar level (and possibly even lose weight), vinegar is your friend. And if you want to avoid cancer-causing damage by meat, red wine (or fruit in general) will neutralize some of the nasties before it even gets into your bloodstream. So start your meal with a vinaigrette salad; have some wine with your meat and fruit for dessert.
Here are the two articles supporting the above.
A good way to lose weight, or quit smoking.
Feb 7th 2008 | NEW YORK From The Economist print edition
As the article below explains, each meal has an immediate effect on your health. The good news is that you can moderate some of the effects: for example, eating nuts with white bread to slow down the absorption of the refined carbohydrates that would otherwise raise your blood sugar to an unhealthy level. Unfortunately, the lack of nutrients in refined foods are not that easily compensated for.
From Time magazine:
Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008
Although it started out as a means of practising expressing myself, this blog is turning out to be more of a compendium of interesting information I come across. One of these days I’ll have to actually write something as opposed to cut and paste. 
