by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 19, 2024 | Nutrition
Doctors used 24-hour dietary recalls on 12,716 US adults, of whom 1290 suffered from constipation and 1067 had diarrhea. Those who ate the most ultra-processed foods had more than double the incidence of constipation as those who ate the least, and minimally-processed...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 30, 2023 | Nutrition
The greatest increase in “junk foods” (tasty processed foods with low nutritional value) in our food supply occurred when tobacco companies such as Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds owned the world’s largest food companies (Public Health Nutr, 2023 Jan;...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 13, 2023 | Nutrition
The rate of obesity in the U.S. is worse now than it has ever been: 43 percent are obese, 10 percent are morbidly obese, and childhood obesity rates have tripled from five percent in the early 1970s to more than 19 percent now (USAfacts.org, April 26, 2023). If you...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 5, 2023 | Nutrition
A healthful diet can help to prevent diseases and prolong life, but snacking on unhealthful foods can negate your diet efforts even if your regular meals are healthful. Highly-processed, sugar-added snacks can make you hungrier so you eat more food and have higher...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 1, 2023 | Nutrition
A UK-based study followed the amounts of ultra-processed foods consumed by 200,000 middle-aged adults for 10 years (EClinicalMedicine, Jan 31, 2023 31;56:101840). The authors found that eating ultra-processed foods was associated with a higher risk of developing...
