We’re encouraged to limit sugar and sweeteners in our diet, but what about honey? Is it better than refined sugar?
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A new study finds that half of daily calories US adults consume are from from junk food, and it's hardly a surprise, given our food environment
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Non alcoholic fatty liver disease is extremely common – affecting about a quarter of the world population and 70 percent of people who are obese – and although there are no FDA approved medications for it the good news is that this liver affliction is preventable and reversible
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A new study looks at the diets of American kids and finds that two thirds of calories now come from highly-processed foods. If we changed just that, childhood obesity could be cut by half.
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The new glycemic index chart lists many more foods and is more accurate, but beyond that, it teaches us is that whole plant-based foods are better, fruits and vegetables are excellent, and that lack of processing really matters.
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Can your diet change how you age? A new study finds that higher diet quality is associated with slower
biological aging, which helps explain how healthy diets extend lifespan.
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When people adhere to simple non-demanding lifestyle choices they stand to reduce their risk of metabolic syndrome – and its consequences – by 65 percent. After a year of sacrificing for health this should be easy!
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Excess sugar can lead to weight gain. Obesity and type 2 diabetes – which is a common consequence of obesity – increase the risk of cancer. But is excess sugar by itself – in the absence of weight gain – risky?
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Are you considering Sugar-Free-January, a Sugar-Free-2019? A new study makes the case for avoiding the extremes of sugar intake — surprisingly, both high and very low sugar intake were linked with bad outcomes.
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Most people think about metabolic health in terms of leanness vs. obesity. But BMI doesn’t tell the whole story, and internal biochemical processes increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart and vascular disease.
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When it comes to storing fat it isn’t just how much we eat, but also what we eat. Some foods – and no, it isn’t just beer that causes a big belly – lead to fat storage in the worst-for-health places – in the liver and around internal organs.
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Drinking a lot of sweet drinks – made with sugar or with non-caloric sweeteners – is clearly not healthy. But one can still argue that there are shades of unhealthy, and that the proof tying diet soda with diabetes is weaker than the evidence linking full calorie drinks to this disease.
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New research helps explain why diet soda hasn’t yielded the expected weight loss. Even if we can’t be sure that diet soda directly causes obesity and metabolic syndrome, it’s fair to say thi experiment isn’t going too well.
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