ARTICLE: Brain activity and connectivity changes in response to nutritive natural sugars, non-nutritive natural sugar replacements and artificial sweeteners AUTHORS: Sze-Yen Tan and Robin M. Tucker SOURCE: Nutrients 2019, 11(1): 94. Published 2019 Jan 5 doi:10.3390/nu11010094 SUMMARY BY: Robyn Flipse, MS, MA, RDN December 23, 2019 INTRODUCTION There is abundant...
Read MoreOriginally published November 15, 2015 | Republished November 2, 2020 -- According to research from the Calorie Control Council, a typical holiday dinner can carry a load of 3,000 calories (chart). Many of us will figure that we've blown our diet and the holidays are to be enjoyed, so why...
Read MoreKeith Ayoob, EdD, RDN, FAND -- Making an extreme dietary change makes great headlines, clickbait, and party conversation. I prefer the real world of small changes. Call them “baby steps” if you like. I prefer baby steps when dealing with lifestyle changes because baby steps are easier to make, and...
Read MoreJ Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2019 Aug 1;104(8):3481-3490. doi: 10.1210/jc.2019-00161 Galderisi A, Giannini C, van Name M, et al. Download Research Study PDF Objective To test the hypothesis that that the ingestion of glucose and fructose may differentially stimulate GLP-1 and insulin response in lean adolescents and adolescents with obesity. Background...
Read MoreJ Physiol 597.14 (2019) pp 3573–3585 Hengist A, Koumanov F and Gonzalez JT. Download Research Study PDF Objective To present the hypothesis that hepatic glycogen stores may regulate metabolic responses to fructose ingestion and could therefore be a target to prevent or mitigate the negative metabolic effects of fructose intake....
Read MoreGut Microbes. 2019 Apr 16:1-8. doi: 10.1080/19490976.2019.1592420. Jones RB, Alderette TL, Kim JS, et al. Download Research Study PDF Objective To determine how dietary macronutrients are associated with the relative abundance of gut bacteria in healthy adolescents. Background A western high fat, high carbohydrate diet has been shown to be...
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