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 [...]
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 [...]
In recent presentations on BBC News, researchers have challenged the assumption that weight gain, particularly in children, is caused by a lack of exercise. The investigators followed a group of more than 200 children for 11 years, regularly monitoring body fat and exercise. Their findings suggest that rather than weight gain being caused by a [...]
In April 2010, a paper published in the Archives of Internal Medicine¹ examined individually and collectively the effects of four behaviors on mortality in adults. The behaviors examined were physical activity, diet, smoking and alcohol consumption.
A new study published in the journal Food Policy¹ documents the increasing price gap between foods high in nutrition and foods that can be classified as junk foods.
For the great majority of my life (I am 46 years “young” now), exercise has been a major priority for me. I place it on the same importance level as eating and sleeping. In other words, it is necessary in order to live. Most people realize there are two types of exercise: aerobic and anaerobic.
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