What’s one way to find out whether you really need something? Well, you could throw it away and see if you miss it! Surprisingly, in the world of nutrition research, this approach has actually, and often inadvertently, driven major discoveries. Let’s take rice as an example. Scientists think that humans first started cultivating rice over [...]
Did you ever wonder why your favorite foods taste so good or why there are some foods you just can’t stomach? Or how come some people like dishes that are extra spicy, while others prefer much less intense flavor? Well, it all comes down to your tongue, your nose and your brain.
Believe it or not, the average person may consume enough fat at a holiday meal to equal three sticks of butter. Yuck! In fact, according to the Calorie Control Council, the average American consumes 4,500 calories and 229 grams of fat on Thanksgiving Day, and that’s just with snacking and the traditional holiday dinner; it doesn’t count [...]
In a previous Healthy Science blog, Supplements 101: The Basics of Dietary Supplement Labels, we offered a few simple tips to help consumers discern dietary supplement quality by careful product label reading. There is, of course, much more to making good dietary supplement choices. Let’s consider the Council for Responsible Nutrition’s (CRN) guidance, “One Dozen [...]
The foods we choose to eat each day have a huge impact on our long-term health and well-being. We all know this, but we don’t necessarily allow what we know to change our behavior. Did you know that our food choices can heavily impact the world around us? When we purchase over-processed, pre-packaged foods, we’re often looking for the easiest and quickest ways to feed ourselves and our families. We usually aren’t thinking about how the food was produced or how that process could be harmful to farm workers, farm animals or the environment.
In 1977, when the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs issued “Dietary Goals for the United States,” their primary goal was to discourage excessive intake of food components linked to chronic disease. This was the first of many governmental attempts to influence America’s dietary choices. It can be argued that subsequent confusing [...]
An international group of vitamin D experts recently published the Endocrine Society’s (ES) Vitamin D Clinical Practice Guidelines, which challenge some of the key findings of the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) recent vitamin D Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) and tolerable upper limit (UL) recommendations¥2. The Endocrine Society also challenged the IOM’s [...]
It is generally accepted that diet plays an important role in achieving optimal health and wellness. It is one of the three Pillars of Health proposed by the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) in 2010, the other two being nutritional supplementation and exercise.¹ The fact is, the vast majority of people in the developed world [...]
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