The phrase “artery clogging saturated fats” has been in common usage for many years. In fact the notion that saturated fats cause heart disease had it’s genesis in research conducted by Ancel Keys, a University of Minnesota Physiologist. I’ll have Henry Blackburn, MD, Mayo Professor Emeritus of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, begin [...]

Valery Fortie is the National Awareness Coordinator of Mediterraneanbook.com, a directory of news source focused on healthy eating habits. The author suggests that the Mediterranean Diet can help ward off many diseases and illnesses.
One of those serious and potentially life threatening diseases is breast cancer. With a risk of one in seven people developing breast [...]

David Brown recently commented on a Sciencebase item on the obesity epidemic. This is the complete transcript of his comment:
In both the UK and the USA, inappropriate dietary advice from government agencies is largely responsible for the perpetuating high rates of obesity and chronic disease.
In the USA, the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) [...]

A list of the ten supposedly most dangerous foods is currently doing the rounds on the social bookmarking sites and getting treehuggers every all in a tizz. The top ten seems to have no foundation in scientific evidence…