It didn’t take me long to roll my eyes when I saw this headline: Tasty Low Calorie Foods: Fat Hidden In Fiber May Let You Taste, But Not Digest, Rich Flavors.
“Our goal is to keep the fat in the food, but stop it from being digested by surrounding it with layers of dietary fiber,” says [...]

Tags: fake food, fiber, low fat, Nutritionism

Of all of the important advances needed in food science, here’s one that’s sure to cause much rejoicing: Tearless Onion Created In Lab Using Gene Silencing. Now aren’t you all excited about that? Ok, enough with the sarcasm. What is it about humans that makes us think we can top the foods [...]

Tags: genetic modification, Nutritionism, onion

Here’s an article titled Fruit, Veggie Eaters Have Fewer Strokes.
The opening line of the story is:
The reasons aren’t well understood, but it is increasingly clear that eating plenty of fruits and vegetables is a good way to lower your stroke risk.
There are probably multiple mechanisms at work here. First, when you’re eating fruits and [...]

Tags: fruit, Nutritionism, stroke, supplements, vegetables, vitamins

Here’s an unintentionally humorous article from WebMD: Foods With Something Extra - Functional, enriched, and fortified foods offer health bonuses. I had my first good laugh (groan might be more appropriate) with the opening paragraph. It didn’t get better as the article continued.
Fooling Mother Nature can sometimes be a good thing. In the [...]

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