“Exercise doesn’t matter. You just have to eat less” “Diet doesn’t matter much, as long as you exercise.” A new study in the Journal of Nutrition says being more active not only won’t help you lose weight, it won’t even burn extra calories overall, at least in kids. The authors found that active kids and […]
**NEWSFLASH** I’ve joined the website The Chocolate Life, as author and contributor. Check out my posts here. It’s nearing Valentine’s Day, a.k.a., The Big Chocolate Holiday, and fine chocolate is top of mind for many. (It’s on my mind 365 days a year.) Describing chocolate as “fine” however, may not mean what you think. The […]
New Year’s resolutions? Ho-hum. According to a new study, most New Year’s resolutions, at least those related to eating and dieting, peter out by mid-February. These researchers tabulated data on Internet-searches for recipes from popular diets. This methodology has weaknesses, but the results were interesting. Best Diets for “Adherence” New Year dieters stayed longest on […]
One nutrition trend that peaked everyone’s interest in 2020 was “immune-boosting foods”. Understandable, too, with COVID-19 keeping the entire world terrified and “sheltering in place”. Outside the home, people were running scared about getting COVID from any place they went for necessities and from everything they touched. Marketers got right on the fears, emphasizing on […]
NO:TE: I’ve partnered with The Glutamate Association for many years, but this post is strictly my own – all based on science and any views are my own. I love dispelling food myths. There’s so much “fear of food”, and how food myths get started is as varied as the myths themselves. No food or […]
If there were EVER a time when we want comfort food, it’s now. Sure, we want nutrition, but “in these challenging times” (getting overused!), we want what we know will make us feel better, even if just for a while. What makes a food a “comfort food”? There’s no single comfort food; everyone has their […]
Every diet, whether faddish or sensible, recommends cutting back on sugar. Even if your weight is fine, sugar reduction is top-of-mind when you’re talking about strategies to improve your diet and health. The World Health Organization recommends cutting sugar to 10% of calories, but strongly encourages no more than 5%. The 2020 US Dietary Guidelines […]
When people tell me “I don’t eat meat, I’m plant-based,” the implication is that plant-based diets can’t include meat, poultry, or fish. They can! “Plant-based” means only that a majority of the diet comes from plants. Period. That said, being “plant-based” tells nothing about the QUALITY of someone’s diet. You can eat nothing but candy […]
Even “BC” (before COVID), much of the world was pretty sedentary, and our new “pandemic lifestyles” haven’t helped. Now a new WHO report says worldwide levels of physical activity have been flat for nearly 20 years. This varies by country, but globally about 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men, are not meeting […]
I’ve worked with so many overweight and obese adults and children whose weight was seriously impacting their health: diabetes, hypertension, back and joint pain, the works. But not all overweight people experience these problems. Some overweight patients have told me they’re happy with their weight and don’t feel hindered by it. As a health […]