With warmer weather, grilling fish and meat outside is a great way to enjoy the fresh air. But there’s a catch: high heat used in grilling reacts with proteins in the meat to form cancer-causing toxins called heterocyclic amines (HCAs). The longer these proteins are cooked, and the higher the temperature used, the more HCAs develop. This is one reason why people eating high meat diets get more cancer. If that’s not bad enough, fat dripping into fire produces another cancer-causing compound, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Smoke dense with PAHs gets into lungs and also coats the meat being cooked. Fortunately, you can greatly reduce HCAs and PAHs and the damage they do: Trim fat. This reduces the formation of PAHs as less fat drips into the fire. Use smaller, thinner cuts of meat to reduce cooking time. Flipping burgers once a minute versus only once reduced cooking time in one study by 1.8 minutes, and cut HCAs by more than 11-fold. Score thicker cuts of meat…

Green tea has been praised for its health-giving properties for more than 4,000 years. Whether you want to support your mind, bones, heart, probiotics in your intestines, glucose metabolism, immunity, detoxification, a healthy weight—or all of the above, green tea can help. But sometimes green tea can be toxic! We’ve told you before about a woman whose fluoride levels skyrocketed after habitually drinking a pitcher of tea daily. She developed severe bone pain that was reversed by a fluoride-free diet, but all her teeth had become so brittle they had to be extracted. Tea leaves accumulate more of the toxin fluoride than any other edible plant, and the fluoride content in tea has increased dramatically over the last couple of decades due primarily to fluoride-containing pesticides. The problem is compounded when fluoridated water is used to brew the tea. To minimize fluoride, buy organically grown tea and brew it in purified water. Tea plants also absorb lead more readily than o…

It is now considered normal to lose cognitive function as you age -- to experience diminished memory, reasoning and speed in processing information. This "normal" age-related cognitive decline is contrasted to dementias, like Alzheimer's, which are much more debilitating and include severe nerve cell damage and death of nerve cells. In fact, age-related cognitive decline and dementia are the same thing. What you call it is a matter of degree, and it is primarily a product of our unhealthy diets and lifestyles.Maintaining a youthful brain does, however, require superior nutrition from both diet and high-quality supplements. A brain support program would include the B vitamins and the antioxidant vitamins A, C, D and E. Fish or flax oil is a must, and the need for it increases with age.By middle age, it's best to be supplementing with CoQ10, acetyl-L-carnitine, and multiple B vitamins. (Deficiencies in vitamin B12 are common and often misdiagnosed as dementias or…