I know from talking to my patients that people eat a lot of fast food, but I hadn’t realized that over 25% of adults in the United States eat fast food at least twice a week. Overall, fast food accounts for 15% of food consumed in [...]
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Your gut is full of microscopic creatures known as microbes. Among other things, they are critical to digestion. You’ve probably seen yogurt advertised as containing “live active yogurt cultures,” and these do help your gut microbes to thrive, keeping everything running smoothly. This is also [...]
Less than 10% of those diagnosed with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma survive for 5 years or more past diagnosis. (By way of comparison, 84% of women diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK survive 5 years or [...] Peer pressure isn’t just about school children pushing each other into smoking cigarettes or other risky behaviors. It works in eating, too – and even when those peers aren’t peers, really, or even present. Researchers in [...] Do you clip coupons or look for deals in those weekly grocery store newspaper inserts? You’re not alone. Four out of five newspaper readers at least look at those ads, while 2 out of 3 use coupons clipped from those newspaper circulars. That makes those [...] If you live in the United States, there’s a good chance that you’ve already seen calorie information listed on a restaurant menu. The state of California and both Philadelphia and New York City already require it, and many restaurants are already doing it voluntarily. If [...] The media talk about “the epidemic of obesity” in terms one might associate more with a zombie apocalypse and the immediate destruction of civilization as we know it, so if you’re a little tired of hearing about it, that’s understandable. It’s the media’s job to [...] I’ve been saying for years that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Here at Dr. Gourmet we’ve reported on research with a variety of results, including: 1. Protein at breakfast will help you [...] Long-time readers of Dr. Gourmet are probably well aware that I think that you should avoid soft drinks in favor of water, tea, or coffee. Earlier this year I reported on the link between soda and the risk of stroke (Bite, 5/16/12), and there’s research [...] One of the reasons I started the DrGourmet.com web site is because the amount of nutrition information available to people these days is just staggering. Governments issue complicated guidelines and tax or otherwise limit some foods (but not others). Newspapers report on nutrition research. Television [...] |
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