Stephanie Ronco 3/12/19 Stephanie Ronco 3/12/19

What's the Difference Between Natural and Added Sugar?

We’ve heard the recommendation to reduce the amount of added sugar we consume in order to promote good health, but what exactly is added sugar? And what is the difference between added sugar and naturally-occurring sugars?

Stephanie Ronco 8/2/15 Stephanie Ronco 8/2/15

Food News: The FDA, Daily Values, and Added Sugars

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed adding a Daily Value (DV) maximum for added sugars to the Nutrition Facts Label. Here's what you need to know...

Stephanie Ronco 4/9/15 Stephanie Ronco 4/9/15

Low Vitamin K2 Linked to Calcified Arteries and Weak Bones

What role does vitamin K play in heart and bone health? Are Americans getting enough of it? Find out in the latest research review from James J. Kenney, ?PhD, FACN...

Stephanie Ronco 3/9/15 Stephanie Ronco 3/9/15

New U.S. Dietary Guidelines To Drop Cholesterol Limits

The most obvious tragic flaw in an otherwise mostly science-based report was the Advisory Committee's questionable decision to no longer include any limit on dietary cholesterol intake.

Stephanie Ronco 10/9/14 Stephanie Ronco 10/9/14

Might Reducing Salt Intake Promote ?Cardiovascular Disease?

The experience from England seriously undermines Dr. Oparil's editorial claim that the PURE study results ?... call into question the feasibility and usefulness of dietary sodium as a population-based strategy for reducing blood pressure.? This makes me wonder why none of the science writers and journalists who were so quick to parrot Dr. Oparil's opinions ever thought to ask why she believed the questionable data and opinions from the PURE researchers were not largely refuted by the real-life public health efforts ongoing in England.

Stephanie Ronco 9/9/14 Stephanie Ronco 9/9/14

Do New Studies Refute the Benefits of Reducing Salt?

The claims being made by the authors of the two PURE articles are troubling because the preponderance of credible scientific data continues to show that elevated BP is the single greatest CVD risk factor in most populations. Data from controlled clinical trials show that dietary salt in excess of 1,500 mg/day is the #1 dietary cause of elevated BP.