Far too many are still swooned by false promises from people with initials like “Dr.” and “CEO” in front of their names. I grew up in the 1960s, inundated by commercials for margarines made from hydrogenated vegetable oils that “promised” those margarines would keep my cholesterol levels low and protect me from heart disease. Yet…
A recent editorial in the journal Open Heart suggests many of us have it all wrong when it comes to the balance of fats we eat. The authors urge a return to equal amounts of specific types of fats known as omega-6 and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in order to help combat global obesity. The…
Vitamin B12 is crucial for the brain, nerves, DNA and blood cells. Unfortunately, it becomes harder and harder for our bodies to absorb vitamin B12 as we age. In fact, 4 in every 100 women between age 40 and 60 have vitamin B12 deficiency. But age isn’t the only contributing factor – avoiding certain foods…
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) gave the University of Utah College of Health more than $700,000 to study mentions of food on Twitter to find out about Americans’ relationship with food. Guess what? Kale didn’t make the list; far from it, actually. [1] Researchers, led by assistant professor Quynh Nguyen, collected 80 million tweets from 2015-2016,…
California is currently the only state in the U.S. that forces the companies to disclose if their product contains a cancer-causing chemical right on the package and that includes everything that is manufactured. This make for an interesting food shopping trip. On my last vacation, I picked up a bag of Spicy Chile & Lime…
In a day and age where people identify heart disease prevention strategies with consuming what are essentally toxic chemicals like aspirin and statin drugs, it is refreshing to see clinical research being done on the powerfully cardioprotective properties of time-tested and much safer spices. A compelling new study published in the Journal of Nutrition and…
