Who is causing childhood obesity, child day-care centers or parents? Children that attend full-time daycare are more likely to be obese than children who are home cared. But a new study indicates it may be the parents fault for obesity in full-time day-care children. Obesity among children attending daycare compared with home cared children suggests… Continue Reading
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Health Benefits of Beans
I was kindly invited to dinner one evening and on the table sat a large pot of beans. This caused me to begin to wonder what actually comprises a bean? Beans are considered a legume and there are many kinds: kidney beans, black beans, garbanzo beans, just to name a few. Beans are used in many ways including soups, tacos,and chip dip. Beans… Continue Reading
Love your veggies… Love your liver!
We are always told to eat our vegetables. There are endless health benefits along with disease prevention when we eat a vegetable rich diet. Even though it has been engraved in our minds, does that mean our vegetable eating habits are up to par? In an observational study recently done by the Academy of Nutrition… Continue Reading
Is Mini-fasting the Diet for You?
Mini-fasting has become a popular new diet plan because of the simplistic nature. It involves intermittently reducing energy by fasting for 12-18 hours two times a week, and eating a normal diet the remaining five days. A randomized study was conducted looking at the effects of intermittent fasting compared with a diet that restricts energy… Continue Reading
Probiotics: Effective? Or a Hoax?
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nut.2013.09.007 The effects of probiotics have been heavily researched in the last five years. The role that gut microbiotia play in healthy digestion and immune function have been a topic of interest to many researchers. One of the areas of interest is the effect of probiotics in reducing joint inflammation and increasing the immune response… Continue Reading
Reward Rewiring
This double blind randomized control trial assessed the behavioral reward system in the brain, as it responded to a novel weight loss intervention. The question posed was: can the brain reprogram to receive greater reward from low calories foods and less reward from high calorie foods through a behavioral weight loss intervention. Researchers found that… Continue Reading
Fish Oil: Can It Save Your Memories?
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) has been a popular topic in the news over the last ten years. Research on this topic is extensive, as this tragic, progressive disease is currently untreatable. Although researchers have yet to discover a treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease, there may be a way to prevent this disease, and even reverse some of… Continue Reading
Food Mood, what your gut is telling your brain
Is that twinkie shaping your mood? Possibly making you depressed and moody? Initially, that satisfaction of sugar breaking down in your mouth seems like it would produce opposite results but what happens when that twinkie or doughnut is absorbed into your body? How is it affecting the almighty gut microbiome that has recently been popular… Continue Reading
Got Milk? Human Milk and Preibiotics
For years human milk has been researched and studied in hopes to better understand its composition and benefits. In the study published in the British Journal of nutrition entitled “Prebiotic consumption in pregnant and lactating women increases IL-27 expression in human milk,” researchers provide evidence which shows human milk composition can be influenced by prebiotic… Continue Reading
Fortified Beverages: Too Much of a Good Thing?
Today’s consumers are no strangers to fortified foods, but is the voluntary fortification of novel “health” beverages really beneficial? A study by Dachner N et al, presented in Applied Physiology of Nutrition and Metabolism, suggests that it may not be.1 The study was conducted in Canada and compared the nutrient content and health claims of… Continue Reading
