FoodWISE and industry funding of food and health research

Image Sugars: How do you prefer yours? With fiber (fruit), or processed, as with the honey on the table? Or, maybe if you have some of that tea with it all, you’ll be fine?     Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, and reports on industry funding of food research. **Shocker**: The results are not credible! Watch…

FoodWISE and Gigi’s favorite one paragraph, packed with nutritional messages

Image: Doughnuts, not as bad as you think (depending……………..on if and how much sugar, and how the doughnuts are “fried”) Gigi reads FoodWISE, and highlights the one paragraph in the book that says it all. (nutritionally-speaking) And here’s scientific article back-up: what’s up with fiber and whole grains?        

FoodWISE—is sugar addictive?

Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, more on Robert Lustig’s work—is sugar addictive? And what about fructose? It’s easy to find work on this, published by universities—although some may be a little dated, as here: university musings on sugar. FoodWISE has recent references on all discussed in the book.     Image: Tarte and cream, from a…

FoodWISE and believing diets

Gigi Berardi begins the section, “Believing Diets,” in FoodWISE, and offers some thoughts from the New York Times (and some recently published science) on sugar and exercise.     There’s a lot of sugar in those Twinkies.