Posts Tagged ‘dietary health’

Should it be a surprise to learn that a testosterone agenda is part of the scientific foundation for the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans? You can find it in “The Scientific Foundation for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.” HHS released that document alongside the guideline document itself. Stat News reports: “For the first time, the […]

“There must be a pony somewhere.” So goes the punchline of a joke about a manure pile that has circulated in various forms for more than a century.  A new report in BMC Nutrition brings this joke to mind. From a great muck of uncontrolled data about dietary nudges in a single hospital convenience store, […]

Defining healthy eating is somewhat like trying to define art. Everyone thinks they know it when they see it, but actually pinning it down in specific terms is not so easy. Nonetheless, we keep on trying and much of the focus from thoughtful people is on healthy patterns of eating, not individual foods. The exemplar […]

The fix is in press this week for our terrible eating habits. In Nature Medicine, Pao-Hwa Lin and Crystal Tyson review a new RCT of interventions in food stores that they believe point the way to “fixing America’s eating habits.” They write: “Today, more than half of all adults in the USA have one or […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused price spikes for corn, milk, beans, and other commodities, but even before the pandemic about 3 billion people could not afford even the cheapest options for a healthy diet. Recent analysis of global food price data reveals that as of 2017, the latest available year, around 40% of the world’s […]

Healthy, green – plant-based – alternatives to food products from animals are generating quite a buzz right now. Restaurants are riding a wave of interest in this concept. With the planet burning and flooding everywhere we turn, wouldn’t it be nice if dining at HipCityVeg could help turn things around? New Forms of Food Multiplying […]