It may interest you to know that the food you keep at home provides 72%, by weight, of all food that you eat. This is assuming that you do not prepare most meals at home, however. If you do make most of your meals at home (breakfast [...]
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I have said in the past that the typical American eats over 6000 milligrams (or 6 GRAMS) of sodium per day. A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine (2010;362:590-9) means I’m going to have to update that figure: the latest estimates, [...] Q: Can you tell me anything about modified food starch/modified corn starch? It is in almost every type of commercially prepared food. Is this a product that many people are allergic/sensitive to? I strongly suspect that I have an allergy [...] Just when you think you’ve heard it all. Taco Bell is touting that you can lose weight eating their food. True, of course, but at what cost? Look, we know that if you eat fewer calories, you’ll lose weight. Anyone can do that and it doesn’t matter what type of calories you eat. Calories are calories [...] OK, sarcasm aside, there’s a great report by the Yale University Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity that shows how marketing has an profound effect on our children’s nutrition. Here’s the link: http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=7013 If you want more great info and a look at the Nutrition Facts of cereals click this link: http://cerealfacts.org/ This is a great organization that [...] |
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