Food & Nutrition

Recently I was talking with my brother-in-law, a fit and healthy type 1 diabetic, and he was bemoaning the fact that it was getting harder to find sufficiently sugary drinks to have on standby in case of a hypo.

Late in the evening when I look for that special snack, I console myself by believing that any food eaten while standing magically contains no calories. A recent study suggests that I am sorta, may be correct, but not entirely.

When I first heard about “Bulletproof coffee” it was from the perspective of enjoying an eye roll moment at the daftness of some LA diet trends.

By James McIntosh

The multiplicity of diets and dietary recommendations is all we need to know about the status of our current nutritional beliefs.

Michelle Obama’s memoir, Becoming, sold 10 million copies in just six months.  Random House Chief Executive said, “It could be the biggest selling autobiography ever.”  In addition to people buying her book, they are shelling ou

You can scramble (or even fry) your brains trying to keep up with which foods are good for you or bad for you, especially since some foods seem to jump gleefully from one column to another, and maybe even back again.

Just about every health guru on the planet, as well as many respected science organizations, has their advice regarding purported inflammatory and anti-inflammatory foods and their purported role in the prevention or development of a myriad of dis

Who doesn’t love a panda? The cute eye markings of raccoons combined with the cuddliness of a baby bear.

I wrote the other day about genetic variations in the metabolism of alcohol in the Asian populations that result in flushing and discomfort very shortly after drinking.