Matthew Kadey, MS, RD
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To invest in prevention, perhaps physicians should start writing scripts for broccoli as well as pharmaceuticals.
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We all know that a nourishing diet is a pathway to better health. But healthy food often gets a bad rap for being pricey, especially for those on lower incomes.
Fortunately, eating well doesn’t have to break the bank. An investigation in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior found that, on average, it can cost $25 a day for a family of four to eat healthful meals that meet USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
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Seafood fraud is rife in the U.S., with 1 in 5 samples mislabeled, according to a new report from Oceana. In testing 449 seafood samples from more than 250 locations across 24 states, the nonprofit conservation group found that about 20% of species, especially sea bass and red snapper, were falsely labeled. As an example, DNA tests showed that a fish labeled “sea bass” could be, in fact, giant perch or Nile tilapia.
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Bad diet choices lead to more deaths worldwide than any other risk factor, including smoking and obesity, according to the Global Burden of Disease study reported in the April issue of The Lancet. The problem is not only that people around the globe are eating too many unhealthy foods; it’s also that people aren’t eating enough nutritious options. In 2017, there were 11 million deaths in 195 countries from health issues attributable to dietary factors (those issues include heart attack and cancer).
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While sodium is rampant in fast food, pizza and deli items, it can also be hiding in surprising amounts in everything from bread to ketchup to cereal. As a result, the average sodium intake of Americans is about 3,400 milligrams daily, mainly from commercial sources like restaurant meals and packaged foods. The latest advice on limiting salt intake comes in a new report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that ties lower sodium intake to less risk of chronic disease.
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People may want to rethink eating that donut to power through a 3 p.m. energy slump. The “sugar rush” trope appears to be a myth, and, in fact, consuming too many sweet carbs can make you feel worse, not better. That’s the conclusion of a research paper published in the journal Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, which pooled data from 31 previous studies involving 1,259 participants. The data showed that individuals who ate sugary foods reported feeling more fatigued within an hour of consumption than those who abstained.
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For years we’ve heard that people who regularly lift weights can benefit from eating higher amounts of protein than the general population. There’s just one glaring problem. Most of the research behind this advice was conducted on men, with little focus on women. Now, a study in the April 2019 issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise has shed light on the specific protein needs of this understudied demographic.
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Passage of the 2018 Farm Bill opened America’s doors to hemp agriculture, from which cannabidiol (CBD) is derived. Since then, there has been a flood of CBD-infused foods and beverages hitting the market. (CBD that is extracted from other cannabis plants, including marijuana, is technically illegal on a federal level.) Everything from coffee to sparkling water to protein powder can now be found with CBD, and a recent survey reports that roughly 40% of U.S. adults ages 21 and over are willing to give these products a try. In 2017, U.S.
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Over the past few decades, the much-vaunted Mediterranean diet’s ability to lessen the risk for an array of ills, including heart disease and Alzheimer’s, has featured prominently in research. But there weren’t any randomized trials conducted in the United States to determine this diet’s long-term impact on Americans’ health measures—until now.
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Here we go again. Just when we thought we could eat our omelets guilt-free, out comes another headline-grabbing study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that rekindles the debate on whether we should fret about cholesterol intake.
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