It’s the no-brainer study of the week: if you ate a diet consisting of the foods shown in typical TV ads, you’d be consuming twenty times more fat, and twenty-five times more sugar than is... Read more >>

Although many will argue that High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) isn’t bad for you, there is a ton of debate that warrants avoiding the ingredient. Many nutritionists blame HFCS as a major... Read more >>

What is your understanding of fat? Is it good for you or bad for you? Well, I am here to tell you the correct answers. Fat is vital to our health. Fat lines our nerves (called... Read more >>

Recently, we have seen a lot of articles and posts on different types of sweeteners, but it can all get a little overwhelming ... or at the very least, confusing. I personally believe that the more... Read more >>

Starting in 2006, the FDA demanded that products with trans fat list just how much they contain on their nutrition labels, much to the relief of health-conscious consumers—and the chagrin of... Read more >>

For some time now, the media has kept us aware of the link between fast-food consumption and obesity, but Morgan Spurlock’s 2004 film Super Size Me brought to our attention the other, overlooked... Read more >>

Imagine it. You’re watching Friends on prime time and wearing Doc Martins, Snapple iced tea in hand. In front of you is a box of fat free Snackwell’s cookies. Ah, the nineties. It made... Read more >>

This week, the New York Times ran an article highlighting the hypocrisy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). While warning about the dangers of saturated fat, the USDA is actually working to... Read more >>

In today’s society, it seems a new disease is discovered weekly. Since bacteria and viruses continually mutate themselves to become immune to whatever drug we use to fight them, it is not... Read more >>