May 30, 2018 | Blood Pressure, Cardiovascular Health, Diet Tips, Fiber, insoluble fiber, Nutrition, Research, Science, soluble fiber, Weight Loss
There are some astonishing plans afoot in the world of medicine. Internet millionaires have targeted death as their next great challenge. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his physician wife Priscilla Chan recently announced a planned donation of $3 billion to...
Oct 11, 2017 | Blood Pressure, Carbs, Cardiovascular Health, Diabetes, Diet Tips, Fiber, In the Media, insoluble fiber, Research, Science, soluble fiber, Weight Loss
We’re back to share a selection of the science & food news that caught our eyes recently. Childhood Obesity In 1975 there were 11 million obese children and adolescents in the USA. Now there are 124 million. This is more than a 10x increase. Additionally,...
May 14, 2016 | Diet Tips, fasting, Fiber, insoluble fiber, soluble fiber, Weight Loss
The master cleanse, juice fasting, detoxing, or juice cleansing. No matter what trendy term you apply to it, these weight loss fads are not the amazing way to lose weight and detox or purify yourself that bloggers describe them to be. Your body is perfectly capable of...
Feb 15, 2016 | Carbs, Diet Tips, Fiber, insoluble fiber, Recipes, soluble fiber, Weight Loss
How to use the best high-fiber breads for weight control. Now that Oprah has bought 10% of Weight Watchers and is appearing in TV ads saying she is losing weight while eating the bread she loves, it is timely to re-examine what we know about bread and weight...
Jan 29, 2016 | Diet Tips, Fiber, In the Media, insoluble fiber, Research, soluble fiber, Weight Loss
Did you know a calorie is not always a calorie once it enters the body?The calorie is a measurement of a unit of energy — the energy contained in food. And it’s at the heart of every weight loss strategy. Most people think of the calorie as an absolute measurement,...
Jun 25, 2015 | Blood Pressure, Cardiovascular Health, Fiber, insoluble fiber, Legumes, soluble fiber
Sometimes the sheerest nonsense is put out about what foods are healthy versus unhealthy. Into that category I would now firmly put the strange and incorrect notion that legumes are unhealthy.This horribly unhelpful ‘advice’ appears to have originated with the Paleo...