A friend recently sent me this article from the NY Times: “How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat“. The article details how researchers recently found documents showing that (more than 50 years ago) sugar industry executives paid and provided articles to scientists. The scientists were “encouraged” to write review articles highlighting fat as the …
People often express frustration at nutrition recommendations since they seem to change over the years. Many years ago, butter was “bad”, so everyone switched to margarine. Then with information about trans fats, people thought margarine was bad. Low fat diets were all the rage, then low carb. Why is it so confusing to determine what …
Which of the foods in the picture is a processed food? TRICK QUESTION!! All of them are. I’ve posted before about how we need to be more specific in defining the term “processed food”. Almost everything we eat is processed. Some of that processing is good, since it makes food safer to eat, such …
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There is always somebody talking about how bad high fructose corn syrup is these days. As a general rule, I haven’t taken a very strong opinion about high fructose corn syrup. It’s a form of sugar, which we should only eat in moderation. And many of the foods with large amounts of high fructose corn …
