Tweet Yesterday and today I re-posted articles I wrote last year on Thanksgiving and overall holiday period weight gain, but for some reason they didn’t propagate through the RSS feed. Here is a link to both: Thanksgiving and weight gain: trivial or not, and riskier for the overweight? Holidays & weight gain: what the science suggests Thanks [...]
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Tweet Originally published on 12.22.2010. Many people have the perception that they are likely to gain 5 or 10 pounds during the holiday season (Thanksgiving to after New Year’s Day). This myth has been propagated by media (4), partially explaining why it exists. But since it is untrue, it does not mean it isn’t important; [...]
Tweet Originally published on 11.23.2010. No additional research has been done since. Tomorrow I will post the subsequent article that examined research on the entire holiday period. Is the Thanksgiving holiday a prime time for weight gain? Is it riskier for people already overweight or currently dieting? Unfortunately, I am only able to find 2 [...]
Tweet A new Cochrane review on dietary salt interventions was published last week by Graudal et. al (1), an update to a 2003 review. The meta-analyses examined the effects of randomized interventions with high or low dietary salt on blood pressure (BP), hormones and lipids. The trials included consisted of subjects with normal or elevated [...]
Tweet Type 2 diabetes is characterized by increased oxidative stress, which may result in vascular pathologies (Bekyarova, Ivanova, and Madjova, 2007). Certain dietary phytochemicals may ameliorate oxidative stress and restore a more normal metabolic milieu. As reviewed by Angeloni, Leoncini, Malaguti, Angelini, Hrelia, and Hrelia (2009), one such phytochemical found in cruciferous vegetables such as [...]
Tweet The increasingly convoluted relationship of appetite and obesity has recently been suggested by Lowe and Butyrn (2007) to be partially mediated by a mechanism referred to as “hedonic hunger,” or the craving for foods in the absence of energy needs. As gastric bypass surgery results in several neurobiological changes that may impact hedonic hunger, [...]
Tweet Right on the heels of the updated Cochrane review on “Reduced dietary salt for the prevention of cardiovascular disease,” (and the terrible reporting on it), another one is updated: “Reduced or modified dietary fat for preventing cardiovascular disease.” One of the authors (Lee Hooper) worked on the salt review as well. Given that this [...]
Tweet After nearly 2 years of blogging and nearly 2 years of planning the blog’s name change, I finally got to it this weekend. Nutritional Blogma (recomp.com/blogma) is now nutsci.org. If you have a moment, please click through and let me know if anything doesn’t work properly. Why? Short and easier to remember, more relevant to [...]
Tweet Melinda Wenner Moyer, a journalist at Scientific American, recently published a new article titled: It’s Time to End the War on Salt. I was anxious to read an article with such a dramatic headline (do I need to adjust my perspective?) as Melinda strikes me as progressive and current with articles such as this [...]
Tweet Note: the original title was misleading in that I wrote “on average stated calories are accurate”, but really only 7% were within 10 kcal of what is posted. Averaged together they are accurate, but individually they are not. Restaurants have been estimated to account for about 35% of american energy intake (USDA data), so [...]