Archive for 'Nutrition'
Obama Healthy but Struggles With Smoking
Feb 28, 2010 –
Doctors recommend that the president continue his “smoking cessation efforts” and that he change his diet to bring down a cholesterol level that is borderline high. Read more: Obama Healthy but Struggles...
Read MoreTamara McClintock Greenberg: Can Overweight Women Trust Their Doctors?
Feb 22, 2010 –
Being a doctor these days is hard. But so is being a patient, especially if you happen to be female and overweight. A study last year found that more than 40% of doctors feel “frustrated”...
Read MoreTherese Borchard: Weightless: How Do You Recover From An Eating Disorder?
Feb 22, 2010 –
Awhile back Psych Central contributing writer Margarita Tartakovsky interviewed me on the topic of eating disorders. Tartakovsky’s blog, called “Weightless,” covers a variety of different...
Read MoreQanta Ahmed, MD: Movement As Medicine: Spinning And The Self-Care Movement
Feb 22, 2010 –
I recently wrote about the paradigm-shifting experience of exercise when I stumbled upon SoulCycle. I read about it when Chelsea Clinton held a Haiti fund-raising event there. I thought two things:...
Read MoreDoes menu labeling affect diners?
Feb 22, 2010 –
Study: It’s inconclusive whether displayed nutritional facts change diners’ habits. You’d think, with the ugly truth at last laid out before them courtesy of the new labeling law, California’s...
Read MoreDiners digest the new menu facts
Feb 22, 2010 –
Visits to a few L.A.-area restaurants reveal how customers really feel about the nutritional info law. Californians have a rep, deserved or not, for being health conscious — asking for dressing on...
Read MoreAmericans may be running up the calorie count when dining out
Feb 22, 2010 –
More restaurants are printing nutritional information on menus, but fat- and salt-laden foods are still offered. Americans are eating out more and more: According to the National Restaurant Assn., 49%...
Read MoreDining out: It’s a whole new game
Feb 20, 2010 –
Going to a restaurant these days includes calorie-counting and trans-fat measuring before you order. How much is that hoagie in the window? You can dig into that dulce de leche cheesecake, but you can...
Read MoreThe family dinner: Are there no limits to its power?
Feb 15, 2010 –
Tami Dennis recently blogged on the issue of correlation and causation and how often the two are confused in stories about scientific studies (and sometimes in the study papers themselves). I would like...
Read More8 Steps To Truer Food
Feb 15, 2010 –
You may have heard the phrase “out of true.” It means not in correct alignment. During the last 40 years or so, most of us have been eating a diet that is wildly out of true compared to what...
Read MoreDebunking The Blue Agave Myth
Feb 15, 2010 –
Agave syrup (nectar) is basically high-fructose corn syrup masquerading as a health food. Sorry. Don’t kill the messenger. It’s easy to understand how agave syrup got its great reputation....
Read MoreEnvironmentally-Friendly Milk: Does It Exist?
Feb 12, 2010 –
Q: Is there such a thing as environmentally friendly milk? A: A simple question with a not-so-simple answer. The short answer is that yes, there is such a thing. But not everyone agrees on which milk...
Read MoreTwo smaller snacks in one pack: Can it be … we’ll eat them both?
Feb 11, 2010 –
A new shocker from science! Researchers investigated whether people who purchased two-pack king size chocolate bars (delightfully abbreviated to TPKSCBs in the foodnavigator.com article where we learned...
Read MoreCooking From the Cabbage Patch
Feb 05, 2010 –
Few foods are as tasty, versatile and good for you as red cabbage, writes Martha Rose Shulman in this week’s Recipes for Health. I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to write a column about red...
Read MoreSan Jose Journal: In Latino Gardens, Vegetables, Good Health and Savings Flourish
Jan 16, 2010 –
The fledgling effort to bring vegetable beds to San Jose, Calif., is part of a national movement to make healthy food accessible to marginalized urban neighborhoods. Continue reading here: San Jose Journal:...
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