by JerraldHayes | Jan 9, 2017 | Diet, Food Science
Via Nina Teicholz on FaceBook I learned… Children who drink full-fat milk end up slimmer than those on skimmed Children should drink full-fat milk until the age of at least six, research suggests – as they are likely to grow up slimmer. In recent years,...
by JerraldHayes | Dec 11, 2016 | Diet, Food Science, Science
Is Sugar Killing Us? At the risk of being a Grinch, the Christmas season is a pretty good time to consider the possibility that sugar is killing us. It is yet another holiday in which sweets play a primary role, with candy canes dangling on trees, cookies or Coca-Cola...
by JerraldHayes | Sep 12, 2016 | Food Science, Science
On Facebook David Ludwig, M.D., PhD wrote: An exposé in JAMA Internal Medicine shows how the sugar industry corrupted the scientific debate on heart disease, leading to a focus on reducing fat intake while ignoring sugar. It’s time to insulate food policy from...
by JerraldHayes | Sep 12, 2016 | Diet, Food Science, Science
How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents...
by JerraldHayes | Aug 17, 2016 | Food Science, Science
Why (almost) everything you know about food is wrong There was a time, in the distant past, when studying nutrition was a relatively simple science. In 1747, a Scottish doctor named James Lind wanted to figure out why so many sailors got scurvy, a disease that leaves...
