Chocolate Made With Fruit Juice Has Half The Fat Content Of Conventional Products
Why mess with my chocolate? Sure you CAN do it, but why? The cocoa butter they are trying to eliminate helps control cravings by stimulating satiety hormones. That same fat turns out to be heart healthy! See this article from the Cleveland Clinic (http://bit.ly/EpneD) Better Living Through Chemistry definitely...
When you lose weight, where does the fat go?
To a museum? Noooo. This (below) was a really good article from CNN Health, talking about one of the crazy myths we have about our weight and health. People think that they can burn fat from certain places in their body — like from their beer bellies, saddlebag hips, or turkey...
WHAT? Low fat diets could increase heart disease?
Could it be true? Has all our coaching to eat low fat foods (in order to save our hearts) actually put us at a greater risk?! Chair of the Harvard School of Public Health’s nutrition department Dr. Walter Willett is emphatic: “If anything, the literature shows a slight advantage of the...
Do The Dietary Guidelines Improve Nutrition?
The dietary guidelines started in 1980, when we weren’t nearly as obese, heart diseased, and diabetic as we are now. Has it helped? Linda Van Horn, the Chair of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and editor of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association insists on the Guidelines’ relevance by stating...
Fat placement matters?
I saw this headline and thought, “oh, neat, something showing how fat location (hips versus belly, pears versus apples) matters.” But this study is like a mediocre movie with a killer trailer advertisement. You get all psyched, but the body of work itself is pretty useless. Here’s what they...
Diet and Fat
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...
Faking it
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...
100% fat free fructose linked to fat build-up
“Eat Fat, Get Fat.” This notion has driven nutrition science and policy for 40 years. But the simplicity of the dogma is revealed as being a bit simplistic. In fact, in the most recent issue of the Journal of Nutrition, researchers from the University of Texas found that fat...
When fat can be healthy
The New York Times reported today that there are some great ways to cook vegetables to maximize the vitamin content, and that eating them raw was not always as good for you. Here is the full article. But the most interesting aspect was in an afterthought at the bottom...