Polyunsaturated oils
Many health organizations recommend the use of oils that consist primarily of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA’s), like sunflower oil because they are said to be heart healthy…
[read article]Masai People and Heart Disease on a High Saturated Fat Diet
If you are interested in nutrition and have access to the internet, it is highly likely that at some point or another you came across views that are contradictory to everything you ever learned…
[read article]Dangerfoods: HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup)
The second article in the series about dangerfoods is about High Fructose Corn Syrup or HFCS…
[read article]Dangerfoods: MSG
I’ll randomly start the series about dangerfoods with MSG (Monosodiumglutamate, ve-tsin, or E621 for European readers)…
[read article]Diet may not help beat stress?
Sometimes I am flabbergasted by research…
[read article]New studies on osteoporosis
Today ended a large conference on osteoporosis…
[read article]PRAL: calculate the acid/alkaline balance of your diet
The PRAL formula
pral = 0…
Vegan mothers have less twins — and other pregnancy related news
There were a couple of surprising (to me) studies about pregnancy in the news this week:
Women who consume animal products, specifically dairy, are five times more likely to have twins…
[read article]Whom can you believe about diet?
If we could resolve big health questions by studying nutrients in test tubes and lab mice, the task would be fairly straightforward. But nutrition research involves two notoriously variable subjects: people and what they eat.
[read article]Introduction to Sports Nutrition
The Montana State University offers an interesting course on sports nutrition online. It is geared towards the winter Olympics, but it the science is applicable to any sport. If you are interested in nutrition and do any form of exercise, you should check it out.
[read article]Eat better, be happier
Some people think healthy eating is a boring necessity to prevent modern diseases…
[read article]Mushrooms can be great source of vitamin D
Mushrooms appear to be a very good source of vitamin D when they have been exposed to ultraviolet light.
[read article]Fruit consumption decreases waist circumference
Spanish researchers found that a high fruit diet decreases waist circumference more than a diet low in fruit…
[read article]Introduction to Human Nutrition
If, like me, you learned everything about nutrition from scattered pieces of information online, you may be interested in Berkeley University’s Introduction to Human Nutrition for a general introduction to the topic…
[read article]Will losing weight kill you?
Just about when I had lost a hundred pounds and reached my target weight, Danish researchers shocked the world with research that said that losing weight could kill you. Let’s have a look at the research.
[read article]Risks of formula feeding
A new RIVM report gives a good overview (with many graphs and tables) of what is known today about the effects of formula feeding on health.
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