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2024 Predictions and 11 Trends for Food and Nutrition Education
As we welcome 2024 and a new year, it is often fun to contemplate where we have been and where we are going on our food, health, and nutrition education journey. The nutrition research, as we have seen over numerous years of Dietary Guideline reviews and in the present 2020-2025 edition, has corroborated a whole-food, plant-based, minimally-processed diet that is low in added sugar, salt, and processed fat especially with regards to trans fat and saturated fat.
Do Foods Need to be Colorful to be Healthful?
When Is a Change in Weight Appropriate for the Prevention of Diabetes?
Weight loss may be beneficial in overweight and obese individuals, but does it offer the same benefits to lean individuals. Weight loss should not be advised unless medically necessary...
An Early Bedtime May Decrease Risk of Diabetes
Protect Your Microbiome
The key to good health is in your gut!
Untangling Processed Foods: Ultra Processed, Minimally Processed, and More
It’s not as simple as processed vs unprocessed because even washing or packaging a food makes it technically a processed food...
Hypertension Raises the Risk for COVID-19 Hospitalization
In COVID-19 patients diagnosed with hypertension, the risk for hospitalization was still very high...
The Impact of a High-Fat Diet on Your Brain
A new study in mice reveals a direct link between a high-fat diet and an increase in diabetes, as well as a decline in cognitive abilities, such as the development of anxiety, depression, and worsening Alzheimer’s disease.
What is Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease?
or the first time the American Diabetes Association (ADA) included recommendations on how to prevent, diagnose, and manage liver disease in their 2022 Standards of Care...
Genetics, Diet Quality, and Type 2 Diabetes Risk: An Observational Study
It’s fairly well known that family history and poor lifestyle play a role in developing type 2 diabetes, but how significant the combination of both can be is unknown...
Skip Processed Foods at Night
A new study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism finds that in individuals with diabetes, the timing and composition of certain foods may be just as important as calories and portion control...
Fatty Liver and Chronic Kidney Disease: A Deadly Combination
Fatty liver disease impacts between 80 to 100 million people in the US, and it's on the rise!
Free Handout: Nutrition Basics
Understanding nutrition and good health is tough. Here's a handout with a few of the basics. I hope it makes your life (and your clients' lives) easier...
Type 2 Diabetes and Kids: What You Need to Know
As the rate of childhood obesity increases, the rate of type 2 diabetes is on the rise too...
Looking for Better Cell Function? Choose Diet Over Drugs
Processed Food May Decrease Processing in Your Brain
A recent study on aging rats found a link to a diet high in processed food and signs of memory loss after just four weeks. The upside? Adding omega-3-fatty acid supplements helped prevent memory problems and decreased inflammatory effects in older rats...
Fermentation Beats Inflammation
You often hear about yogurt and fermented foods being good for your gut, but new research suggests they may do more than that...
Whole Grains and Good Health
A recent study suggests that whole grains are not just beneficial in lowering blood sugar, they may also aid in cholesterol reduction and weight control...
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