Fats in food doesn`t have to be bad for your health. The Harvard Nurses’ Health Study found trans fats to be far worse than saturated fats in relation to heart disease. When 30 calories of assorted carbohydrates was replaced with 30 calories of either saturated fats or trans fats (bad fats) ... Read More

Here’s some good dietary news about fatty foods: As the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study confirms, eating more of the good fats (MUFAs, PUFAs and Omega 3 fatty acids) and limiting or avoiding bad fats (SFAs and TFAs), all while keeping fat intake to no more than 30% of total daily ... Read More

Good fats vs bad fats are constantly fighting over our health. We know that not all proteins are created equal when it comes to our health. Similarly, we have learned that there are good and bad carbohydrates. Guess what? That’s right. There are good fats and bad fats. For the sake of ... Read More

A healthy breakfast is the nutritional equivalent of this popular notion: “You only get one chance to make a good first impression.” This saying holds true for a date or a job interview, but when it comes to our health, every day we awaken gives us a chance to get our ... Read More

Fiber foods help to debunk the malnutrition myth. Malnutrition will do this to you. Let me clear up a misconception about malnutrition. Being malnourished doesn’t just come from a lack of food, such as my decision to skip breakfast altogether. What if I was to say that the huge breakfast described above ... Read More

The benefits of fiber are as underestimated as the food is under-eaten. For instance, the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study, as well as a study of male health professionals (120,000 people combined) revealed some disturbing links between low fiber dietary intake and the onset of type II diabetes. The studies showed that when subjects ... Read More

The Heart Attack Grill can honestly say it lives up to its name. The notorious fast food burger chain that has a hospital theme, where scantily-clad servers dress up as nurses and cloak you in a hospital gown before taking your order, made headlines this past week when an obese 40-something customer ... Read More