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One of the things I didn't mention in the last post is that Americans are eating more calories than ever before. According to Centers f...

The New York Times just published an article called " The Overflowing American Dinner Plate ", in which they describe changes in t...

A final note about the Chinese study in the previous post: the overweight vegetable-eaters (read: wheat eaters) exercised more than their no...

Dr. Michael Eades linked to an interesting study yesterday on his Health and Nutrition blog. It's entitled "Vegetable-Rich Food ...

I left out one of the juicier tidbits from the last post because it was getting long. Investigators Kang-Jey Ho et al . wanted an explanati...

One of the surprising things I noticed when I was poring over data from the NHANES survey (US CDC National Health and Nutrition Examination ...

Lentils are a healthy food that comes with a few caveats. They have more protein and less carbohydrate than any other legume besides soybean...

As you may have noticed, I suspect fructose is involved in overweight and other health problems. It seems to have adverse effects on fat de...

At 38% and climbing in 2006, the Pima indians (Akimel O'odham) of Arizona have the highest rate of diabetes of any population in the wor...

I've been puzzled by an interesting question lately. Why is it that certain cultures are able to eat large amounts of carbohydrate and ...

This study was released today, demonstrating in 6,583 patients that visceral fat mass in the 40s predicts the risk of dementia in old age. ...

This week, I stumbled upon a very interesting series of articles from the lab of Dr. Nir Barzilai. The first article I came across showed t...

From the US Centers for Disease Control website : Since the mid-seventies, the prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased sharply...