AJCN November, 2009 - SUMMARY - See this, longer synopses, and links to published articles at http://campus.beloit.edu/nutrition/aln/1109ajcn.htm If you can pick up a copy of Women's World Nov 2nd issue with Weight Loss Secrets of Dancing with the Stars on the cover, sold at many US store checkout lines, you can read the story on page 20 that tells The Science Behind The Secrets, attributed to Alfred "Roc" Ordman, Ph.D. Though it is based on an interview with me, the author completely changed most of the information that I provided to her. But olive oil is great. See 3 below.
FOOD FOR HEALTH
1. Cocoa helps your heart
2. Eating 4 eggs a day helps eyes, raises good HDL, not bad cholesterol
3. Alcohol consumption stimulates your body to make a powerful antioxidant - Olive oil contains a powerful antioxidant called hydroxytyrosol. That substance has now been discovered in red wine. And drinking alcohol causes your body to produce it spontaneously.
4. Green tea is associated with lower psychological stress

VITAMINS
5. Many people are deficient in vitamin C - [Even average vitamin C was only about 54 µmol/L, that is provided by 90 mg vitamin C per day, compared with 115 µmol/L in the people with the highest group, that can be achieved with 500 mg twice a day.]
6. Vitamin C and E prevent chromosome damage from sunlight
7. Get your B vitamins for strong bones

DIETING EFFECTIVELY
8. Lose 1 pound per week by alternate day fasting and help your heart
9. High protein diet better for blood pressure and to prevent rebound effect
10. A low glycemic index diet also alleviates hypertension
11. Yogurt helps weight loss
12. Fiber intake reduces weight - they found no effect of added sugar on any indicator, Fiber, on the other hand, showed a protective effect against excess adiposity.
13. Dietary fiber keeps kids thinner

AND AVOIDING WEIGHT REGAIN AFTER DIETING
14. Why short term dieting leads to gain weight

EXERCISE
15. For children, vigorous exercise is the one that reduces adiposity
16. Exercise in the cold burns calories, maybe it does not in heated areas.
17. You lose muscle when older even if you exercise

FOR MOTHERS
18. Control your weight in further pregnancies
19. Maternal obesity before pregnancy is strongest predictor of offspring's childhood obesity
20. Good nutrition helps offspring

"We must wholeheartedly believe in free will. If free will is a reality, we shall have made the correct choice. If it is not, we shall still not have made an incorrect choice, because we shall not have made any choice at all..." E. Lorenz, father of chaos theory