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It’s ice cream weather. But in addition to tasting wonderful, ice cream can be high calorie. What to do? Eat fake ice cream? Avoid ice cream? Forget dinner and just eat ice cream? Well, all of these might work, but if you’d like to enjoy delicious real ice cream and still control calories, the best [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Diets are always in the news, and a new study uses brain scans provide evidence that extremely restricted diets just set you up to overeat and regain all the weight you lost. The brain scans showed that calorie restriction increases the reward value of highly palatable foods, [...]
To kick off Calorie Spotting on Radio Nutrition, what better food to discuss than Cheesecake Factory cheesecake? The Cheesecake Factory has been notoriously unhelpful about providing calorie information to consumers. Unlike the vast majority of chain restaurants, there’s no calorie or nutrition information on the website. Eventually, when the FDA calorie count [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download This week’s random news updates on diet and nutrition research include: “Paleo Nostalgia” is the term evolutionary biologist Marlene Zuk uses to describe the paleo diet fad. Zuk is the author of “Paleofantasy: what evolution really tells us about sex, diet and how we live.” As she [...]
Walking fast is just as good as jogging when it comes to health benefits. It’s annoying and unhelpful when exercise is portrayed as running or working out in a gym, wearing expensive athletic clothes. And of course the people in the photos are all skinny. So the news that a brisk walk [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Nutrition Research Updates The requirement for restaurants to post calorie counts on menus still hasn’t gone into effect, but that hasn’t stopped many chain restaurants from posting calories. Consumer Reports recently investigated the accuracy of some of those numbers. Most items had correct calorie counts, although a [...]
Nothing says summer quite like watermelon, even though it increasingly turns up in grocery stores in spring. It's one fruit that (mostly) hasn't … Read More
