Feb 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
Diet soda: What is it good for? Experts say it’s making you fat, eroding your teeth and giving you Type II diabetes. On top of all that, each visit to the vending machine is costing you $1.50 (50 cents if you’re employer isn’t a startup). In the...
Feb 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
Last Wednesday, First Lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack unveiled a new era of cafeteria food with a set of USDA nutrition guidelines for public schools. The rules put the clampdown on fat and sodium and called for more fruits and veggies. But...
Jan 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
The winter months divide us into two types of people: the fit and the unfit. Fit people keep moving no matter what. They don’t use the dreary cold months to deter them from reaching their health goals. Unfit people make excuses, so they can spend more time indoors on...
Jan 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
Can a person be addicted to food? Does our body go through physiological withdrawal the same as it would for drugs and alcohol when a person stops eating a particular food item? In order to answer these questions, I exhaustively searched for conclusive science-based...
Jan 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
It’s one of the most passionate debates in the medical community: can you be addicted to food or is your overeating the result of failed will-power? Dr. Oz examines the line between behavior and addiction when it comes to food. Watch Part One here. Watch Part Two...
Jan 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
…On the Today show, Deen emphasized to Al Roker that age, genes, stress, and other non-dietary factors can all contribute to the development of diabetes—and she has a point, says Keri Gans, a registered dietitian and the author of The Small Change Diet. “A lot...
