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Eating Gluten Free Isn’t Always Healthy
After even a short stroll through the grocery store, no one could blame you for thinking that everyone should be on a gluten-free diet. [GF] In fact, gluten-free foods are critically important for...
View ArticleDiet and Weight Loss: It’s Time to Curb Carbs
Researchers assigned 148 obese men and women—they averaged about 215 pounds—to either a “low-carb” diet (goal: less than 40 grams of carbs a day) or a “low-fat” diet (goal: less than 30 percent of...
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What Not to Eat: SpecuLoser
“A delicious European alternative to peanut butter,” says the Lotus Creamy Biscoff Spread jar. [WN] “This rich, deeply flavorful Belgium Speculoos spread is a delicious way to enhance toast, bagels,...
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What Not to Eat: Are Restaurant Pancakes Even Worse for You than You Thought?
It’s like having dessert for breakfast. At IHOP, an order of five Original Buttermilk Pancakes adds 750 calories’ worth of (mostly) white flour to your IHIPs. And that’s without the syrup you pour at...
View ArticleDoes Sugar in Food Cause Gum Disease?
People who consume more sweets and soda have a higher risk of periodontal disease, which is linked to chronic inflammation, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes. [text_ad] Researchers analyzed data on...
View ArticleHow to Diet: Is Too Much Acid Bad for Your Bones?
Nutrition Action Healthletter spoke on the phone with Bess Dawson-Hughes, the director of the Bone Metabolism Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts...
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CINN-A-STACK French Toast is Another Example of What Not to Eat at IHOP
UPDATE: Since we published this story in the October 2012 edition of Nutrition Action Healthletter, this item has been removed from the IHOP menu. Ho-hum. Apparently, that’s what many IHOP diners think...
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A Healthy Mediterranean Diet
The new PREDIMED (Prevención con Dieta Mediterránea) study was big news. Spanish researchers reported that high-risk people on either of two “Mediterranean” diets had a remarkable 30 percent lower...
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Is Paleo Healthy? Should We Be Eating Like Cave Men and Women?
“If it wasn’t on a caveman’s menu, it shouldn’t be on yours.” That’s the basic premise of a Paleo diet. The question remains, as it should for any diet—is Paleo healthy? Maybe you’ve heard of the...
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Healthy Foods to Eat on a Gluten-Free Diet
Stomach pain, diarrhea, weight loss. Those are some of the symptoms of celiac disease, which is an autoimmune reaction to gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye. At least one out of 100...
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