By Carolyn Reynaud, MS, RD, LD -- The scariest part of Halloween can be dodging all those sweet treats and candies if you are trying to watch your diet. Halloween festivities do no need to haunt your waistline. Here are some Halloween season survival tips for a tricky situation. Don’t...
Read MoreA policy statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics posted online October 28, 2019 on Pediatrics entitled “The Use of Nonnutritive Sweeteners in Children” unnecessarily raises questions that have been consistently and repeatedly addressed by scientific and health authorities around the world. The new policy statement questions the safety and...
Read MoreBy Rosanne Rust, MS, RDN, LDN — Fiber is an important dietary component. It serves both the food industry as a functional additive, and also provides benefits to human health. When you think of fiber, you may think of naturally occurring fibers that add “bulk” to the diet (foods like...
Read MoreBy Carolyn Reynaud, MS, RD, LD -- That time of night is finally here, when you can sit and just relax after a hectic day. Then it hits you, that craving for a snack. You have done fantastic eating healthfully all day, and then it feels as if it just falls...
Read MoreARTICLE: Do low-calorie sweetened beverages help to control food cravings? Two experimental studies AUTHORS: Maloney NG, Christiansen P, Harrold JA, Halford JCG, Hadman CA SOURCE: Physiology & Behavior.2019;208(112500):1-9 SUMMARY BY: Robyn Flipse, MS, MA, RDN Introduction This study explores whether low-calorie sweetened (LCS) beverages help regular consumers adhere to their...
Read More(ATLANTA) -- On October 3, 2019, DiabetesCare published a study entitled, “Changes in Consumption of Sugary Beverages and Artificially Sweetened Beverages and Subsequent Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Results from Three Large Prospective U.S. Cohorts of Women and Men”. This study reports that increasing consumption of sugary beverages and artificially...
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