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2025 Predictions and Trends for Food and Nutrition Education
As we welcome 2024 and a new year, it is often fun to contemplate where we have been and where we are going on our food, health, and nutrition education journey. The nutrition research, as we have seen over numerous years of Dietary Guideline reviews and in the present 2020-2025 edition, has corroborated a whole-food, plant-based, minimally-processed diet that is low in added sugar, salt, and processed fat especially with regards to trans fat and saturated fat.
Protect Your Microbiome
The key to good health is in your gut!
Hypertension Raises the Risk for COVID-19 Hospitalization
In COVID-19 patients diagnosed with hypertension, the risk for hospitalization was still very high...
The Impact of a High-Fat Diet on Your Brain
A new study in mice reveals a direct link between a high-fat diet and an increase in diabetes, as well as a decline in cognitive abilities, such as the development of anxiety, depression, and worsening Alzheimer’s disease.
Who is Most Vulnerable in the Obesity Epidemic?
The American obesity epidemic shows no sign of slowing. A new study shows who has been most affected over the past decade...
Here's How RDNs and Other Educators Can Help During the Obesity Epidemic
How can health care providers help move the needle on obesity? Here are a few of my ideas...
What is Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease?
or the first time the American Diabetes Association (ADA) included recommendations on how to prevent, diagnose, and manage liver disease in their 2022 Standards of Care...
Snacking and Obesity
Guler emphasizes that it’s not just what we eat, but when we eat that can lead to obesity...
Fatty Liver and Chronic Kidney Disease: A Deadly Combination
Fatty liver disease impacts between 80 to 100 million people in the US, and it's on the rise!
What is Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease?
You may not have heard of it yet, but nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disease in the United States...
Looking for Better Cell Function? Choose Diet Over Drugs
Processed Food May Decrease Processing in Your Brain
A recent study on aging rats found a link to a diet high in processed food and signs of memory loss after just four weeks. The upside? Adding omega-3-fatty acid supplements helped prevent memory problems and decreased inflammatory effects in older rats...
New Study: Eating Patterns and Childhood Obesity
Eating patterns may play a larger role in childhood obesity than we had previously believed...
Eating Patterns and Childhood Obesity
Weight Management and Your Brain
Obesity May Exacerbate Alzheimer's Disease
A new study out of the University of Sheffield has discovered that being overweight may exacerbate Alzheimer’s disease...
Don't Weight! Obesity and Cancer
Inflammation and Cancer
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