Sep 7, 2024 | Desserts, Diet Tips, Exercise, Fiber, In the Media, Legumes, Nutrition, Protein, Science, Snacking, Weight Loss
Summary: Want to Lose Weight? What You Need to Know about Eating and Exercise Dr. Roberts wrote a feature article for the magazine Scientific American that discusses key learnings from her research. We know you’re busy (and the article is subscriber-only) so here are...
Aug 21, 2024 | Desserts, Diet Tips, Fiber, Legumes, Nutrition, Protein, Snacking, Weight Loss
What are the best foods for weight management? According to iDiet According to iDiet and Dr Susan Roberts, what are the best foods for weight management? The iDiet emphasizes foods that are high in fiber and protein, and low-glycemic foods to help manage weight...
Jun 1, 2021 | Carbs, Desserts, Diabetes, Diet Tips, Fiber, Legumes, Nutrition, Science, sweeteners, Weight Loss
Glycemic Index – Good Carbs and Bad Carbs Are there “Good” and “Bad” Carbohydrates? The Glycemic Index (GI), originally used in research on treating diabetes, measures how much a particular food increases blood glucose in the two-hour period after eating. Foods...
Jan 17, 2021 | Carbs, Desserts, Diet Tips, Fiber, insoluble fiber, Nutrition, Recipes, Research, Science, soluble fiber, Weight Loss
Dietary fiber: A ‘magic bullet’ for healthy weight management If I had to name one single food constituent that is most helpful for weight management, it would be dietary fiber. It just has so many benefits and strangely has been researched much less for its weight...
Sep 4, 2018 | Carbs, Cardiovascular Health, Desserts, Diet Tips, Fiber, In the Media, Legumes, Nutrition, Research, Science, Weight Loss
Moderation in all things. Did your grandmother ever tell you this? A recently-published meta-analysis says she was right. A new large-scale study Researchers who pooled the results of eight large studies covering more than 430,000 people have found that eating a...
Oct 9, 2017 | Desserts, Diet Tips, Fiber, Recipes, sweeteners, Video, Weight Loss
How to avoid weight gain during the holidays As we leave the relative quiet of summer behind, we enter the fall/winter holiday period, which brings many food challenges. It starts with Halloween, which could be called the “festival of candy”, then rolls into...