Food & Nutrition

It’s All Over the News

The Body’s Internal Clock

For the full article by Dr. Chuck Dinerstein, click here. 

Let’s play a guessing game. Name a former surgeon who “moved on” to bigger and better thing$, aka humping questionable dietary supplements. “Better” as in a bigger and better portfolio. Who comes to mind? Dr. Oz, of course, right?

Processed meats, sugar-sweetened beverages, and trans-fatty acids all have been associated with chronic diseases, frequently type 2 diabetes, ischemic heart disease, and colorectal cancer.

In a few months, we will receive the MAHA Commission report on the connection between our diet and chronic illness, along with their recommendations that are ultimately intended to influence federal guidelines and, most importantly, SNAP funding.

You can find yourself down a rabbit hole exploring TikTok's #HealthTok hashtag, fueled by the latest wellness trends and health fads.

Much of nutritional epidemiology still relies on methods that resemble guesswork more than science.

There's almost no medical schools that have nutrition courses, and so [aspiring physicians] are taught how to treat illnesses with drugs but not how to treat them with food or to keep people healthy so they don't need the drugs

Our bodies maintain glucose concentrations between 70 and 140mg/dl when our metabolic function is normal. Blood glucose rises in response to a meal and then declines back to its baseline, a pattern that CGMs can characterize.