Why Chicken is Not a Vegetable
And Other Chicken Tales
There is a pervasive believe that chicken and fish are health foods. Now I can understand why people may think that fish is a health food (I don’t necessarily agree that it is), but is chicken healthy?
I think this belief harkens back to the idea that protein is a health food and the only place to get...
Executives and Nutritional Beliefs
One of the things we ask our executives prior to attending our LAP program is to describe the healthy and unhealthy aspects of their diet. I always find this interesting as it gives insight into prevailing nutritional beliefs. Generally under the healthy they will list vegetables. Sometimes they include fruit. This is good to hear, the message is...
Embracing Fat: Better for Weight Loss and Cardiac Health?
Every other week it seems we hear another media report of how saturated fat, once the villain, is now good for us.
The latest study to hit the airways purportedly addressed the question of which diet is better for weight loss and reducing cardiac risk, a high-fat/low-carb diet or a low-fat/high-carb diet. Its conclusions favored a high-fat/low-carb...
AGEs, Antioxidants and Brain Health
We all know the ugly statistics. Deaths from Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have seen a steady increase over the last few decades and it is now the sixth leading cause of death in the US. Recent predictions are that the number of people worldwide afflicted with AD will double every 20 years to 42 million by 2020 and 81 million by 2040. Equally disturbing...
Sick Care or Health Care
Could it be that we could solve most of our health problems just by changing our diets? What a radical idea. Not really.
According to Dr. Roberts, the long-time-editor in chief of the American Journal of Cardiology, “Some extremely common conditions in the Western world are relatively uncommon in purely or predominantly plant-eating...
Saturated Fat: Friend or Foe?
In case you haven’t been paying attention (although this one was hard to miss as it was all over the airwaves and blogosphere) a meta-analysis was recently published which concluded that saturated fat is harmless when it comes to risk for coronary disease (CD). To quote the authors conclusion, “Current evidence does not clearly support cardiovascular...