by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 20, 2017 | Nutrition
Several papers have raised concerns about the long-term health effects of artificial sweeteners. In one study, researchers showed that a sweeter-tasting, lower-calorie drink caused people to eat more food, to have higher blood sugar levels and to be more likely to...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 13, 2017 | Nutrition
Researchers at the George Institute for Global Health in Australia presented a review of 34,000 packaged foods to the Australia and New Zealand Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation. They found that seventy percent of these packaged foods contained added sugars that...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 30, 2017 | Nutrition
If you take a sugared drink while eating meat, the animal protein reduces your ability to burn off the calories from sugar by more than a third (BMC Nutrition, July 20, 2017). In this elegant new study, 27 healthy-weight adults spent two full days in a sealed...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 30, 2017 | Nutrition
Nobody has presented good evidence that eating meat from grass-fed animals is more healthful than the meat from corn-fed animals. The main health arguments for eating grass-fed meat are its lower fat content and higher content of omega-3 fatty acids (Meat Science,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 27, 2017 | Nutrition
Researchers followed 536,000 men and women, ages 50 to 71, for an average 16 years and found that those who ate the most meat from mammals and processed meat had a 26 percent greater risk of dying within the study period than those who ate the least (Brit Med J, May...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 14, 2017 | Nutrition
Two excellent studies from Germany and Vanderbilt University in Tennessee tell us that us excess salt:• causes hunger, rather than thirst• breaks down muscle and fat• may be a primary dietary factor in the high rates of obesity, diabetes, heart attacks and strokes in...
