Category Archives: Nutrition And Diet
Intermittent Fasting: Is it Right for You?
Losing weight is one of the most difficult things to start, maintain, and follow-through. There are over 100 diets that offer a way of eating that promotes weight loss. But with so many types of diet out there, how do you know which one works for you? Luckily, there is a weight loss approach that […]
Whey Protein May Affect Weight
A study published in The Journal of Nutrition June 2011 showed that whey protein may be helpful in weight loss. They assigned 90 overweight and obese men and women with an average weight for men of 218 pounds and 190 pounds for the women to 1 of 3 groups. All the groups had an average […]
Protein for Breakfast Decreases Hunger Later
Three groups of teenagers were studied at the University of Missouri for 3 weeks. They either skipped breakfast, 60% actually do skip, ate a normal amount of protein, a 500-calorie meal consisting of cereal and milk, or a high-protein breakfast. At the end of each week they filled out a form rating appetite and satiety […]
Obesity Linked to High-Fat Meals and Heart Disease
New research shows that eating fast food can affect the inflammatory responses in blood vessels. Triglycerides, fat molecules associated with “bad cholesterol”, are known to increase the inflammatory response of the endothelium cells lining the arteries. A project at UC Davis is trying to measure the triglyceride levels that can cause endothelial inflammation to help […]
Lower Vitamin D Linked to Obesity
The latest issue of the Journal of Nutrition published a study done on 1,800 people in Norway. They measured vitamin D levels and found that the more obese the lower the levels of vitamin D. Obesity associated with lower vitamin D levels made sense since vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin and much of the […]
