August 1, 2024 by Joel Streed, Mayo Clinic News Network Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainProcessed, and especially ultra-processed, foods have been blamed for the national rise in obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes. But what exactly are these foods, and are they really all that bad for you? Defining processed foodsAccording to the Department of Agriculture,...
by Terezie Tolar-Peterson, The Conversation The available energy for protein is corrected to reflect material the body can’t breakdown which is excreted in urine. Credit: Table: The Conversation, CC-BY-ND Source: Buchholz and Schoeller, 2004 A calorie is a calorie is a calorie, at least from a thermodynamic standpoint. It’s defined as the amount of energy...
A diet developed in the 1920s to treat children with epilepsy is suddenly all the rage. The ketogenic diet, or “keto diet”, has reportedly been endorsed by celebrities and even athletes are giving it a go. The keto diet is one of a series of fashionable low carb diets that include the Atkins diet, the...
