Most of us have been told that fiber is an important part of a healthy and balanced diet, and that many people may not consume enough fiber. For decades…
Category: Eating
The science journalist Gary Taubes starts his book The Case Against Sugar with the following argument: we live in a society where two conditions…
Added sugar is lurking in 74% of packaged foods, and we’re not just talking about cookies, cakes, and desserts. Many foods that we deem as “healthy”…
At the start of every new year, lists abound detailing what we should and should not eat. These how-to eat-healthy headlines beckon as the one thing…
I was noodling around the Internet a few years ago, looking for interesting ways to bring more vegetables into our family meals, when I came across…
I’ve had Type 2 diabetes for 14 years. Finding the right combination of low-GI foods and living a “normal” life has been really trying. A few months…
“Your blood sugar is over 250. We’ll have to test for ketones, just to make sure you’re not spilling any.”
The nurse stuck a label featuring my name…
I love being on a strict low carb diet because it does wonders for my diabetes management. And I hate being on a low carb diet because, well, I love pizza, pasta, croissants, chocolate chip cookies, almost anything with cinnamon sugar… You get the idea, right?
Today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a new Nutrition Facts label for most packaged foods that reflects the latest in nutrition…
The next piece to this puzzle is to know that nutrition is barely discussed in most (not all) medical schools. At Emory, in 1982, we had about 2 weeks of education in “nutrition.” But what was covered was how the body metabolizes protein, carbohydrate, and fat, nutritional deficiency diseases, and the nutritional requirements to prevent those diseases.