Truth About Health & Nutrition - Part 2

January 19, 2012

Interview with Robert Davis, author of the bookCoffee is Good for You: From Vitamin C and Organic Foods to Low-Carb and Detox Diets, the Truth about Diet and Nutrition Claims

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Mike Carruthers:
For years we’ve heard that eating eggs isn’t good for you because they contain cholesterol, but the research says otherwise.

Robert Davis:
The evidence shows that is you eat up to six eggs a week it’s not harmful it’s good news because eggs are a good source of protein and certainly it’s a more healthy breakfast than eating a big muffin that’s full of sugar and calories.
 

Robert Davis, author of the book Coffee is Good for You, examined the scientific research behind a lot of nutrition claims. For instance is organic foods safer?

There is not conclusive evidence that eating pesticides, traces of pesticides at the levels in which they occur in foods is harmful. Now high levels of pesticides are certainly harmful to farm workers but the little bit we get from foods not a lot of evidence there. If you want to hedge your bets, which I do, and say, “OK, I’ll pay a little bit more for organic foods just to be safe” – there’s nothing wrong with that. But there are certain foods that have more pesticides than other for example it may be worth your while to pay for organic strawberries because the conventional tend to be high in pesticides - but bananas not so much because they tend to be low to begin with.

And what about high fructose corn syrup? Some say it’s poison and others say there’s nothing wrong with it.

What I’ve found from looking at the studies is that while it’s not a good thing you don’t want to eat more sugar – high fructose corn syrup is no worse for you than other kinds of sugar. So if you are worried that it’s poison, that if you eat it you’re going to have some kind of ill health affects – the human studies do not bear that out.

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