The World Health Organization’s recent findings, connecting red and processed meat with cancer reverberated throughout the world, but they’re hardly a surprise.
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With smartphones and fitness trackers counting our every step, many people try to reach a daily target – the ballpark of 10,000 steps is considered a good place to be. But how you walk might matter as much as how far.
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The recent prevailing mood regarding sugar swings between worry that it’s not particularly good for you, to conviction that it’s downright poison. A rigorous new study in Obesity, led by Robert Lustig, shows that reducing overconsumption of fructose is metabolically beneficial in and of itself.
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Instead of advising people to eat less salt – which sounds bland, boring and preachy – maybe the better message is: spice it up.
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Seduced by pharmacotherapy’s alluring commercials and the promise of instant results many resort to medications in order to lower the risk for heart disease and other chronic illnesses. Meanwhile are we ignoring a proven method to reduce the risk of heart disease?
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Whole grains are gaining ground, and ‘whole grain’ is one of the hottest selling health claims. The USDA’s 2010 Dietary Guidelines recommend that at least half of daily grains be whole, and school lunch programs are required to serve half of the grains offered during the school week as whole ones.
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If ice cream were associated with filth, disease and desolation, rather than with long summer days, azure beaches and beautiful, fit, thin, sun-kissed people would we overcome our sweet tooth and like it just a little less?
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