All Videos for Calories

Keto Diets: Muscle Growth and Bone Density

Ketogenic diets found to undermine exercise efforts and lead to muscle shrinkage and bone loss.



Are Keto Diets Safe?

The effects of ketogenic diets on nutrient sufficiency, gut flora, and heart disease risk.



Is Weight Loss on Ketosis Sustainable?

Might the appetite-suppressing effects of ketosis improve dietary compliance?



Keto Diet Results for Weight Loss

Ketogenic diets and the $33-billion diet gimmick.



Keto Diet Theory Put to the Test

Do low-carb and ketogenic diets have a metabolic advantage for weight loss?



Does Chewing Gum Help with Weight Loss?

If extra chewing is effective in suppressing your appetite when it comes to food, what about chewing gum as a weight loss strategy?



How Many Calories Do You Burn Chewing Gum?

What are the effects of gum chewing on hunger and appetite?



Which Is a Better Breakfast: Cereal or Oatmeal?

The remarkable impact of the structure of food beyond nutritional content or composition.



A Workplace Wellness Program That Works

What is the return on investment for educating employees about healthy eating and living?



The Weight-Loss Program That Got Better with Time

The most well-published community-based lifestyle intervention in the medical literature is also one of the most effective.



Chocolate and Stroke Risk

Dark chocolate is pitted against milk chocolate in a test of artery function.



Slowing Our Metabolism with Nitrate-Rich Vegetables

The reason greens are associated with a significantly longer lifespan may be because, like caloric restriction, they improve our energy efficiency.



Shaking the Salt Habit

What three things can we do to lower our sodium intake? Are there any tricks for interpreting nutrition facts labeling on processed foods?



The Protein-Combining Myth

The myth that plant proteins are incomplete, necessitating protein combining, was debunked by the scientific nutrition community decades ago.



Effect of Sucralose (Splenda) on the Microbiome

What effect do artificial sweeteners such as sucralose (Splenda), saccharin (Sweet & Low), aspartame (Nutrasweet), and acesulfame K (Sweet One) have on our gut bacteria?



Eating More to Weigh Less

Energy density explains how a study can show participants lose an average of 17 pounds within 21 days while eating a greater quantity of food.



Are There Foods with Negative Calories?

Is it true there are foods like celery that take more calories to digest than they provide?



Plant-Based Diets for Diabetes

When placed head-to-head against the American Diabetes Association diet, how do plant-based diets fare in terms of not only blood sugar, body weight, and cholesterol control, but also mood and quality of life?



What Are the Healthiest Foods?

Based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which foods best supply shortfall nutrients while avoiding disease-promoting components?



The Okinawa Diet: Living to 100

What would happen if you centered your diet around vegetables, the most nutrient-dense food group?



Diet and Climate Change: Cooking Up a Storm

While epidemics of chronic disease are currently by far our leading causes of death, global warming is considered a looming public health threat. How can we eat to combat dietary diseases and greenhouse gas emissions at the same time?



The Downside of Green Smoothies

Concerns about smoothies and oxalic acid, nitrate availability, dental erosion, and weight gain are addressed.



Liquid Calories: Do Smoothies Lead to Weight Gain?

If our body doesn’t register liquid calories as well, why are blended soups more satiating than the same ingredients eaten in solid form?



Fatty Meals May Impair Artery Function

We finally discovered why a single high-fat meal can cause angina chest pain.



Does Chocolate Cause Weight Gain?

Big Candy boasts studies showing that those who eat chocolate weigh less than those who don’t, but what does the best science show?



High Blood Pressure May Be a Choice

Eating a diet low enough in sodium (salt) can prevent the rise in hypertension risk as we age.



Boosting Brown Fat Through Diet

The fat-burning properties of brown adipose tissue can be boosted by cold exposure, certain flavor molecules, and arginine-rich foods.



Brown Fat: Losing Weight Through Thermogenesis

Brown adipose tissue is a unique organ that burns fat to create heat, improving temperature regulation in infants and weight loss in adults.



Music as Medicine

Music can beat out anti-anxiety drugs, Mozart can reduce allergic reactions, and how listening to your favorite tunes can significantly affect your testosterone levels.



Formula for Childhood Obesity

Feeding infants cow’s milk formula may adversely alter metabolic programming.



How to Prevent a Stroke

Insufficient intake of fiber-rich foods may lead to the stiffening of our arteries associated with risk of having a stroke.



Diabetes as a Disease of Fat Toxicity

The “twin vicious cycles” explain how the buildup of fat in the cells of our muscles, liver, and pancreas causes type 2 diabetes, which explains why dietary recommendations for diabetics encourage a reduction in fat intake.



Plant-Based Workplace Intervention

Employee wellness programs may help boost the corporate bottom line.



The Spillover Effect Links Obesity to Diabetes

Being obese may result in as much insulin resistance as eating a high-fat diet.



Are Raisins Good Snacks for Kids?

The California Raisin Marketing Board need not have funded such misleading studies, given the healthfulness of their product.



The Saturated Fat Studies: Set Up to Fail

How might Big Butter design a study (like the Siri-Tarino and Chowdhury meta-analyses) to undermine global consensus guidelines to reduce saturated fat intake?



Chicken Big: Poultry and Obesity

Chicken consumption is associated with more weight gain than other meat.



How Much Added Sugar Is Too Much?

Are table sugar and high fructose corn syrup just empty calories or can they be actively harmful?



Caloric Restriction vs. Plant-Based Diets

What is the best strategy to lower the level of the cancer-promoting growth hormone IGF-1?



Hospitals Selling Sickness

The movement to remove fast food operations from hospitals parallels the successful movement in the 80s to bar hospital tobacco sales.