Category: Articles

Data glut. Information overload. Knowing more and more about less and less. Isn’t this how it feels when you look at the encyclopedic information on the back of a food label? It’s not helpful … but we have to do something. Our problem with Overweight and Obesity threatens to...

If you choose to stuff your turkey, stuff loosely. The stuffing should be moist, not dry, since heat destroys bacteria more rapidly in a moist environment. Place stuffed turkey in oven immediately. You may also cook the stuffing outside the bird in a casserole. Judging cooking time for your...

The U.S. FDA is blocking the import of all milk products from China. Not just milk, but “milk-derived ingredients and finished food products containing milk from China due to the presence of melamine and/or melamine analogs”. In September 2008, several companies were implicated in a scandal involving milk and...

Unilever Food and Health Research Institute wants to put chemical odorants in your food, so you will perceive it as a healthy food option. Here’s the article.Their researchers picked commercially available odorants that corresponded to 15 salty food tastes. These included:sardine, bacon, anchovy, peanuts, tuna, Roquefort cheese, ham, chicken,...

I was teaching a group on the Path program a couple of nights ago. One of the participants, who is really doing well, nevertheless has a wicked schedule. She’s always moving from one asdpect of her job to another, with only a 10 minute break — where she can...

You’re never going to believe this (here’s the article). You know how genetic engineers can take recombinant DNA of one plant, and splice it into another, and give us GMO corn? And, weirder still, they can even put fish genes into our corn (and do!!). Now there are hopes...

We have to confront one of our must cherished notions about weight and health — regarding the dietary demon of fat. This article, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (reviewed in this article), helps to unlinking fat in the diet from fat on your hips. Researchers followed...

Our culture of health seems to adopt a “give pills first, ask questions later” mentality. In other words, treat with a product (drugs), rather than with a process (behavioral therapy). I know, I know, this is not universally true. However, it is alarmingly common. For example, this article reports...

I'm at the idina Menzel concert. The person selling the T-shirts for the warmup act is a waif. Nice girl, but a complete bird, with wrists like pencils. you just hope that she's that way because of the genetic cards she was dealt, and not because she's trying. Sent...

High blood pressure is not just about the sodium anymore. The factor you can increase … to decrease … your blood pressure, turns out to be foods with Potassium. Blood pressure is increased by eating more Sodium (please note: the principle source of Sodium in the U.S. diet comes...

The Dow Chemical company wants to sell you a new fat blocker as a way to allow you to eat unhealthy foods. Forget that the last fat blocker on the market was Olestra, which had to have a warning label attached to it because of the nasty greasy stool...

This report speaks directly to the message we are trying to get across: that overweight and obesity is about more than just molecule micromanagment. To love your food and reintroduce pleasurable eating, can lead to neural changes that can help reduce overconsumption. In this study, they used chocolate milkshakes,...