Category Archives: Food

gary taubes at the NYT asks: Is Sugar Toxic?

I haven’t written much on Food recently (or much at all recently) but there’s a great article in the New York Times covering sugar’s possible role in metabolic syndrome and other diseases as well. The article itself clocks in at … Continue reading

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and now a study on hfcs

More on Food. Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain From the summary: This creates a fascinating puzzle. The rats in the Princeton study became obese by drinking high-fructose corn syrup, but not by drinking … Continue reading

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mark bittman on food

Yet another post on my series on Food. This time it’s a video by Mark Bittman who talks about our food system, what we’ve lost and what we should be doing. (I love his focus on real food – not … Continue reading

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artificial sweeteners

Recently, I’ve been doing some posts on food. This is another one. A friend of mine recently posted a link to a pretty interesting article about an animal model meant to observe the effects of artificial sweeteners on rats. Here’s … Continue reading

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sugar

I’ve been posting recently about food and nutrition and I feel like the information in this video was a huge piece that I was missing. In this video, Dr. Robert Lustig goes through the science behind how sugar and its … Continue reading

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food on thanksgiving

Today is Thanksgiving in the United States. A day where we say thanks for all of the good things that we’ve been lucky enough to be graced with over the last year. It’s also a day that we eat a … Continue reading

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