A study funded by the Nutrition Science Initiative examined whether the type of calories eaten after weight loss might be more important than the number.
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True or False?: Calories measure the energy in the food you eat.
There’s a lot that has to happen to get glucose into the bloodstream, starting with the food choices you make in a grocery store or at a restaurant.
Different people derive different amounts of calories from the same food, determined by individual factors. One such factor is the gut microbiome, which varies widely.
The health benefit of breakfast has now been completely debunked by a new systematic review and meta-analysis of 11 randomised trials that investigated the impact of skipping breakfast on weight and metabolic rate.
When we digest the food we eat, the fats in the food are broken down into their parts, and fatty acids move through the intestinal walls, into the body.
When evaluating a product at the grocery store, ignore the pretty packaging and any claims on the front of the package. Instead, flip the package over to inspect the nutrition facts label, and look at the ingredients.
There are around 20 different kinds of amino acids, each made of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen (and sometimes sulfur) atoms in a specific arrangement. These are the building blocks of proteins.
Tufts researchers report that the great majority of the meals Americans eat at fast food restaurants are of poor nutritional quality—85 percent of those consumed by children and 70 percent for adults.
More than half of the parents in a study said they looked for “reduced sugar” products, but most didn’t realize that the natural sugar had been replaced by artificial sweeteners (also called “non-nutritive”).
Ultra-Processed Foods includes such things as sodas, candies, cookies, sweetened breakfast cereals, fish nuggets, packaged instant soups or desserts, baby formula, salty packaged snacks and many other products aggressively marketed to consumers.
How much water should the average person drink each day?
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