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Do you enjoy a no-sugar-added soda with dinner every night? What about a low-sugar, high protein ‘nutrition bar’ after a workout? At the office, are you mindlessly grazing through the low-sugar or no-sugar added cookies? Do you read food labels to see where on the ingredient list sugars are [...]
It’s often been said that you can’t out-exercise a bad diet, yet a new non-profit called the Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN) hopes to prove otherwise. On the surface, this might not seem noteworthy, but it’s a spark of information that lit the health and wellness world on [...]
If we made only two changes in the way we ate, and one of them was to drink water (preferably citrus water, as seen yesterday on Dr Oz) instead of sugar sweetened beverages, what would the other be? You start by acknowledging that soda is the new cigarette and [...]
One of my patients, an Indian man with prostate cancer recently told me “I’ve stopped eating ice cream because of the sugar, because sugar feeds cancer.” There’s a lot to say about this: that cancers are food-specific (what works for one in prevention or treatment may not [...]
TOTAL CALORIES: 24,375 TOTAL GRAMS OF FAT: 1,285 TOTAL COST: $86.47 My patients eat a lot of calories, but are actually malnourished. Your brain doesn’t count calories–it counts nutrients. But there are few needed nutrients in this photo created for Super Bowl Sunday. The brain is [...]
Gary Taubes blew the top off the New York Times readership with his carefully researched “What if it’s all been a big fat lie?” about fat and heart disease in 2002 (translation: it’s the type of fat that matters, not total fat). He’s doing it again with “Is Sugar [...]
Sure, they’re vintage ads. But three reports show how the heart of seduction still beats louder than a baby’s cry or early rock-n-roll. Though Sugar Inc was right about the pink packets then, and dollars now. First, the WSJ reports 7-Up is picking up market share in the U.S., by [...]
Americans eat about 136 pounds of added sugar every year, each. Some 57 pounds is High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). In 1966, we ate no HFCS and 23 pounds less added sugar per person. Can simple food swaps actually help you lose weight…and better yet, belly fat? How much [...]