Food Favorites to Avoid

Watch your diet; eat healthy foods, exercise and stay fit. We all want to live relatively free of physical problems like obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, but we are not careful about prepared or packaged foods sold in supermarkets. Take for instance our love for ice cream. We think that the best is Haagen-Daz.  Nutritionists and scientists, according to a Nutrition Action Newsletter, an average half-cup serving squeezes half-a-day's saturated fat and a third-of-a-day's cholesterol into your artery walls and makes nearly 300-calories on your fat cells. That's of course assuming that you can stop after the first half cup of ice cream.
Whether or not you can believe this report, it is always a good idea to watch what you eat -- stay with healthy foods. More later on favorite foods to avoid.

Vitamin K2

I received a newsletter in which claim was made that Vitamin K2 will keep your blood pressure healthy. It outlined three steps to follow to keep blood pressure in the healthy range.

1. Remove calcium from arteries for optimum blood flow, presumably layers of calcium deposits narrow the blood vessels.
2. Relax your arteries. When relaxed, your blood vessels open up wider and allow blood flow easily through.
3. Ease blood vessel constriction by stopping Angiotensin II. It's been shown that blueberries help in inhibiting Angiotensin II enzyme. One study reported this in the Journal of Medicinal Food.

I would appreciate your comments on this report.