Oct 18, 2018 | Carbs, Diabetes, Exercise, fasting, Fiber, In the Media, insoluble fiber, Nutrition, Research, Science, soluble fiber, Uncategorized, Video
Weight loss without gimmicks, or Weight loss that works! Obesity today is a problem that’s completely out of our control. This is a lightly edited transcript of the talk that Dr. Roberts gave in Boston at the Human Nutrition Center on Aging, Tufts University. The...
Sep 4, 2018 | Carbs, Cardiovascular Health, Desserts, Diet Tips, Fiber, In the Media, Legumes, Nutrition, Research, Science, Weight Loss
Moderation in all things. Did your grandmother ever tell you this? A recently-published meta-analysis says she was right. A new large-scale study Researchers who pooled the results of eight large studies covering more than 430,000 people have found that eating a...
Jul 13, 2018 | Blood Pressure, Cardiovascular Health, Diabetes, Diet Tips, Fiber, Groups, insoluble fiber, Nutrition, Research, Science, soluble fiber, Weight Loss
Curing cancer and heart disease is difficult. But preventing them is easy – and delicious. Heart disease is responsible for one in four U.S. deaths, and cancer is responsible for nearly as many. Although we have made strides in cancer treatment, some rates of cancer...
May 30, 2018 | Blood Pressure, Cardiovascular Health, Diet Tips, Fiber, insoluble fiber, Nutrition, Research, Science, soluble fiber, Weight Loss
There are some astonishing plans afoot in the world of medicine. Internet millionaires have targeted death as their next great challenge. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his physician wife Priscilla Chan recently announced a planned donation of $3 billion to...
Oct 11, 2017 | Blood Pressure, Carbs, Cardiovascular Health, Diabetes, Diet Tips, Fiber, In the Media, insoluble fiber, Research, Science, soluble fiber, Weight Loss
We’re back to share a selection of the science & food news that caught our eyes recently. Childhood Obesity In 1975 there were 11 million obese children and adolescents in the USA. Now there are 124 million. This is more than a 10x increase. Additionally,...
Oct 9, 2017 | Desserts, Diet Tips, Fiber, Recipes, sweeteners, Video, Weight Loss
How to avoid weight gain during the holidays As we leave the relative quiet of summer behind, we enter the fall/winter holiday period, which brings many food challenges. It starts with Halloween, which could be called the “festival of candy”, then rolls into...
