Taking Advantage of Sensory-Specific Satiety
How can we use sensory-specific satiety to our advantage? When we eat the same foods...
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How Big Is the Cancer Risk from Processed Meat?
How can we use sensory-specific satiety to our advantage? When we eat the same foods over and over, we become habituated to them and end up liking them less. That’s why the “10th bite of chocolate, for example, is desired...
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Dietary Diversity and Overeating
Big Food uses our hard-wired drive for dietary diversity against us. How did we evolve...
Cutting the Calorie-Rich-And-Processed Foods
We have an uncanny ability to pick out the subtle distinctions in calorie density of...
Headache and Migraine Relief from Foods
Plant-based diets are put to the test for treating migraine headaches. Headaches are one of...
Are Fortified Children’s Breakfast Cereals Just Candy?
The industry responds to the charge that breakfast cereals are too sugary. In 1941, the...
Coffee Benefits Blocked by Adding Milk?
I open my video Does Adding Milk Block the Benefits of Coffee? with a graph...
Foods That Improve Sexual Function in Women
Addyi (flibanserin), the drug marketed for “hypoactive sexual desire disorder,” is ineffective and unsafe. What...
Sunflower Seeds May Aggravate Acne
Should we be concerned about the pimples, cadmium, and “colonic crunch” associated with the consumption...
Is It the Sugar, the Milk, or the Cocoa in Chocolate Causing Acne?
Is the link between chocolate and acne due to the sugar, the milk, or the...
Does Chocolate Cause Acne?
What are the effects of dairy products, sugar, and chocolate on the formation of pimples?...
Dining by Traffic Light: Green Is for Go, Red Is for Stop
In this article, I explain my traffic light system for ranking the relative healthfulness of...
Dark Chocolate Put to the Test for Peripheral Artery Disease
One of the problems with publishing research on chocolate is that the press jumps on...
Resveratrol Supplements Are Finally Put to the Test
The Magic Bullet for Anti-Aging? “If one searches the Internet for anti-aging interventions, a vast...
In Late Pregnancy Moderate the Intake of Powerful Anti-inflammatory Foods
The right side of the heart pumps deoxygenated blood from the body to the lungs,...
Who Should Avoid Coffee?
Do coffee drinkers live longer than non-coffee drinkers? Is it “wake up and smell the...
Chocolate Is Finally Put to the Test
Botanically speaking, seeds are small embryonic plants—the whole plant stuffed into a tiny seed and...
What to Do If You Suspect Gluten Problems
Symptoms of gluten sensitivity include irritable bowel type symptoms such as bloating, abdominal pain, and...
Coca-Cola Stopped Sponsoring the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
The American Dietetic Association (ADA) is the world’s largest association of nutrition professionals. They claim...
How Dark Chocolate Affects Our Arteries
Chocolate: delicious beauty or harmful beast? Or both? Although chocolate products can contain high levels...
How to Boost the Benefits of Exercise
We all know exercise is beneficial to our health. Then why is it that ultramarathon...
How to Get Our Kids to Eat Their Vegetables
When researchers offered kids broccoli or a chocolate bar, which do you think they picked?...
