Its The Sugar, Sweetie
Follow @willclower Table showing all the synonyms for sugar added to food products This article asks the question of whether we should label food products to include “sugar added” for the times when massive amounts of sugar is added? Of course we should. It’s not even a question. Americans eat...
Wine. For Doctors. Over Lunch … and why this makes perfect sense
Follow @willclower When I lived in France, doing research on the brain, I ate in the neurological hospital every afternoon. When you eat in the neurological hospital, with all its doctors, here’s what you do. You start by getting your plastic tray, on which you build an amazing lunch:...
Growing Gazpacho
Growing Gazpacho Follow @willclower Gazpacho = Brilliant Flavor + Amazing Health Benefits Summer is perfect for the newest foodie ideal currently returning to our culture of health – that we take ownership over our own health through foods grown close to home. This “farm to table” concept already has a...
Alert ladies: BMI and the accidental workout effect
Follow @willclowerSpongy bones are breakable bones. So to keep them dense and strong, obviously you need to have calcium on board and the vitamin D necessary to help you body absorb that calcium. Got it. We know that already. But what else do you need to consider? This new study shows that...
Treating the problem, not the symptom, of an unhealthy lifestyle
Follow @willclowerJust got my copy of the Am J of Health Promotion, in which there is a great article on “The association between employee obesity and employer costs: Evidence from a panel of US employers.” The results are exactly as bad as you might imagine. RESULTS:Normal weight employees cost...
Deranged: What Artificial Sweeteners Are Doing To You
Follow @willclower Here’s the big picture: If you eat zero calorie “diet” products, you can be left with more than zero calories. In fact, a study from theDepartment of Psychological Sciences and Ingestive Behavior at Purdue University looked at all the reviews of all the studies on artificial sweeteners over...
What’s The Magic Behind The Mediterranean Diet?
Follow @willclower The Mediterranean Diet seems to be good for whatever ails you. Every month brings more data showing how this approach leads to low weight, healthy hearts, and longer lives. Despite the luscious creams, cheeses, butters, breads, chocolates, and wines they eat and drink, they’re still thinner and...
Let The Flames Begin!! How To Grill Healthfully This Summer
Grilling can be great, or it can introduce carcinogens to your food … depending on nothing more than what you cook, and how you cook it. Follow @willclower The best part of this nutrition advice is that it’s the same advice I would give you to make your food taste better!! Take...
A little knowledge
I’m traveling, just landed in Milwaukee. There was a Starbucks, and since I woke up at 4:10 am to get here, I wheeled in for a small back jolt wakefulness before heading to my parade of meetings. Noshy, I really really wanted a muffin or something (my mouth wanted...
Chocolate and “fat bloom” … it’s not what you think
When you hear these two things together — “chocolate” and “fat bloom” — you’re thinking … oh I see, I eat chocolate and then my fat blooms.Actually, fat bloom is like sugar bloom in your chocolate. All it means is that either the fat or the sugar crystallizes together and...
Newsflash: Egg White Protein May Help Lower Blood Pressure
Isn’t it crazy that we have to “discover” that eggs are good for you? We’ve been eating eggs forever, and all healthy cultures eat eggs. In fact, the heart-healthiest people on planet earth eat eggs, to the tune of about 1 every single day. And it’s not JUST the...
The Healthy Foods You Should Eat. Every. Day!
You know those little “champagne” mangoes? They’re out right now!! Go find them. Eat them. You can eat them on a boat, you can eat them with a goat, you can eat them on a train, you can eat them in the rain!! If you want to add a wonderful food...