: You need vitamin and mineral supplements to be healthy
Vitamin and mineral supplements can’t replace the benefits of healthy food or provide nutrients such as fibre, carbohydrates, essential fats and protein. Most healthy people can meet their vitamin and mineral needs…
“Multi-grain” is the same as “whole grain.”
Multi-grain isn’t always whole grain. Multi-grain products include different grains, but they may not be whole. You’ll get the greatest health benefits from eating whole grains. Look on the food label’s ingredient…
Frozen vegetables and fruit are not as nutritious as fresh.
While nothing beats the taste of fresh produce in season, frozen produce is usually picked and packed ripe, when it’s most nutritious. Frozen produce helps us eat a variety of vegetables and…
If a food is low in fat or fat-free, it must be healthy.
Just because a food is low in fat or fat-free doesn’t mean it’s healthy. Some low-fat foods are definitely not healthy choices, like candy or pop. Low-fat foods can still be high…
When you’re pregnant, eat up! You are eating for two.
Pregnant women are commonly told they are “eating for two.” In reality, you need just a little more food during the second and third trimesters. To get enough nutrients and calories to…
Drinking tea causes dehydration
It’s a popular belief that tea is dehydrating because it has caffeine, but the level of caffeine you get from drinking moderate amounts of tea, even strong tea, doesn’t dehydrate you. Tea…
There’s always a famine happening somewhere in the world.
Although nearly one billion people around the world suffer from hunger, famines are actually rare. In the past 15 years, only two famines have been declared around the world. Famine was just…
People don’t start dying until a famine is declared.
By the time a famine is declared, it’s usually too late for many people. Of the 260,000 people who died from hunger or hunger-related illnesses during Somalia’s 2011 famine, nearly half died…
The root cause of famine is lack of food.
Famine isn’t caused solely by drought or a bad harvest. It’s a side effect of severe poverty, often exacerbated by war. Remember: the same drought that affected Somalia during its 2011 famine…
To prevent children from dying in a famine, they simply need food.
Children are the most impacted by famine and, not just because of lack of food, but lack of nutritious food and supplements to help them survive preventable diseases like pneumonia or malaria.…
