Time link! Amazing Health Foods, Body Transformation video and more

For some reason certain foods were written by most who are trying to follow a low calorie or a healthy diet.

A recent post in thatsfit.com may cause you to rethink some discrimination of food.Baked potatoes is at the beginning of the list of 6 Surprising Health Foods. just go easy on butter.

A new site just recently launched offers a great way to motivate people to lose weight or build muscle. Timelapseme.com makes it easy for visitors to make a video of their progress.

The dieter simply takes a picture once or twice a week and then uploads them to the site.Here's a sample video clean of the finished product.

Another new site that we can give you a sneak peak at before the official launch is caloriegallery.com.This site shows Visual representations of the appearance of 200 calories of popular foods. also lists popular fast food menu items like those of McDonald

Speaking of McDonald, did you know that have over 13,000 locations in the United States alone? Now you want to see what your number on a map of the United States? chewonthatblog.com did a great job to take a number obscure and showing what it really represents.

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Poll: Does Facebook Give Good Health Advice?

Not if you ask Harvard health expert, William Shrank, who calls Facebook the "wild west" when it comes to health information.

This is because of the study his team conducted on the popular social networking site which found that many health recommendations came from those soliciting non FDA approved products and services.

Out of 15 diabetes related Facebook pages, 27% of the comments were from people promoting non FDA sanctioned products or methods.

The Harvard team recommends the following;

"Policymakers should consider how to assure transparency in promotional activities, and patients may seek social-networking sites developed and patrolled by health professionals to promote accurate and unbiased information exchange,"

I admit that there are people on Facebook trying to take advantage of people to make a buck, but I also find fault with the notion that only the FDA and heath professionals have accurate and unbiased information.

How many times has the FDA been wrong? How can the countless amount of anecdotal evidence be ignored which shows the effectiveness of non FDA or medical profession approved treatments?

This really shows the "we are better and smarter than you" attitude some academia seem to have, especially in the face of those that think outside the box when it comes to diet, health, and fitness.

What are your thoughts about the notion that we should only consider health advice from the FDA and health professionals? Participate in the comments and poll below.

Should consumers only consider FDA and Doctor approved products and treatments when dealing with health issues?

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