Healthy Eating
Taming INFLAMMAGING: Rethinking Your Diet
Truth lies in the proverbial saying “you are what you eat” meaning to be healthy and fit one needs to eat healthy food. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, the famed French politician, gastronome and observer of his countrymen, wrote in his 1825 culinary tome, The Physiology of Taste, “tell me what you eat, and I’ll tell you what
Sugar Substitutes: Challenging the Myths
Lately we’ve been hearing sugar substitutes, also called nonnutritive or artificial sweeteners, may promote weight gain and may cause diabetes or make it worse. This could be one of those confusing good-for-you, bad-for-you, nutrition stories. The safety of artificial sweeteners is a decades old debate. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for evaluating
An Apple A Day…
I’m rather passionate about apples, but I confess to not owning an apple tree. My passion gets as far as the grocery store where picking apples is happily relegated to a lovely display of the most popular apple choices full of good nutrition. Gala recently surpassed Red Delicious as the most popular apple. I’m personally