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 [...]
Happy New Year! With each new year, typically comes a new set of resolutions, but very rarely do we think of these resolutions in terms of goals. If we put as much thought and effort into making new years’ “goals” instead of just “resolutions,” we just might be more likely to actually accomplish a few [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Once again, Mannatech’s excellence in educating the public about nutrition and health has been confirmed by a panel of experts. Mannatech’s blog HealthyScience.net was bestowed a Winter/Spring 2011 Web Health Silver Award by the Health Information Resource Center, a national clearinghouse for professionals who work in consumer health fields. The Web health awards program honors [...]
Recent comments by T. Colin Campbell, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University, have questioned the validity of isolating individual nutrients from food and conducting randomized clinical trials with them. He states that conducting such trials is a seriously flawed hypothesis and that more effort must be expended in order to understand the breadth and depth of health [...]
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