Month: September 2022

ANTIOXIDANTS. "A University of Florida study found that people who consume more antioxidants maintain lower BMIs, smaller waistlines, and lower body-fat percentages than those with lower intakes, even though both groups consumed about the same number of daily calories–a strong indication that the nutrients calories are bundled with play a key role in metabolism." https://lnkd.in/ekwr8vK View in LinkedIn

BUNKUM. "Diet myths abound in the health industry, but one of the biggest myths of all is the idea that a calorie is a calorie, no matter where you get it from, or what the chemical or nutritional makeup of it is." https://lnkd.in/exrg2Cj View in LinkedIn

MORE BUNKUM. "One dogma that has contributed to the ever-worsening health of the Western world is the belief that "a calorie is a calorie." This is one of the first things dieticians learn in school. Unfortunately, this is completely FALSE... Another dogmatic belief that simply isn't true is the idea that obesity is the end result of eating too much and exercising too little." https://lnkd.in/exrg2Cj View in LinkedIn

CALORY MYTH. "Among the dramatic changes to our food supply is the extensive use of sugar, primarily in the form of high fructose corn syrup, which is added to virtually all processed foods. And this is where the fallacy of "a calorie is a calorie" comes into play, because a calorie from fat does not impact your body in the same way a calorie from fructose does." https://lnkd.in/exrg2Cj View in LinkedIn

JUST FOR EMPHASIS. "In a nutshell, "from a metabolic perspective, all calories are not alike," said study senior author Dr. David Ludwig, director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Children's Hospital Boston. "The quality of the calories going in affects the quantity of the calories going out." https://lnkd.in/eyiHknP View in LinkedIn

MARCH 3: "Serenus Biotherapeutics, Inc., a specialty biopharmaceutical company bridging the divide between the world's leading pharmaceutical markets and the growing demand for access to innovative therapies in the emerging nations of Africa, today announced it had secured investment of up to $43 million from Malin Corporation plc, an Ireland-based global life sciences company focused on healthcare." A historic Series A round. https://lnkd.in/e2Vi8Ce View in LinkedIn

THE ATWATER SYSTEM. "Caloric values are calculated by the Atwater System, a 100 year old method, that recent research shows can be inaccurate by up to 50%. It treats all foods as the same, which is not true." Like the RDU for vitamins, it needs updating. https://lnkd.in/erqrSbY View in LinkedIn

"ATWATER FACTORS were inaccurate with low-fat, high-fiber diets. Although modified Atwater factors may be accurate under standardized conditions of zero-nitrogen and zero-energy balance, they overestimate energy availability from high-fiber fruit and vegetable and cereal diets when food intake is reduced spontaneously in addition to when intake is reduced voluntarily." http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/6/1649.full View in LinkedIn

PERFECT STORM. "The societal changes over the past 60 years or so have created what amounts to a perfect storm; a confluence of dramatically altered food environment combined with reduced physical exertion and increased exposure to, and consumption of, a wide array of industrial and agricultural chemicals that have a detrimental impact on the human biochemistry." https://lnkd.in/exrg2Cj View in LinkedIn

TREACLE GUTS. "The average American consumes 1/3 of a pound of sugar a day. That's five ounces or 150 grams, half of which is fructose, which is 300 percent more than the amount that will trigger biochemical havoc. And many Americans consume more than twice that amount!" https://lnkd.in/exrg2Cj View in LinkedIn