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Theres a lot of helpful intel crammed onto the inches that make up afood labels nutrition panel.
The amount of fiber?
Sugar, including whats in there naturally versus what was added in?
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The vitamins and nutrients, including how close a serving gets you to meeting the days requirements?
Yup, thats there, too.
As great (and necessary!)
ForSuzanne Judd, PhD, a nutritional epidemiologist, it isnt just an imaginary, cool idea.
The results were published in theJournal of Nutrition.
We wanted to look at scores that would be associated with inflammation within the body.
This data set represents people from a wide range of ethnicities and geographic locations.
They also gave a rundown of their lifestyle habits and activity levels, and also had blood work done.
Added sugar, on the other hand, has one of the highest inflammation scores.
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Still, there are some surprises.
While meat generally has anunhealthy rep in the food worldthese days, thetypeof meat matters for inflammation.
Red meat has an inflammatory effect, but only slightly at 0.02.
Processed meats are really hard on the body because of the amount of nitrates, Dr. Judd explains.
Dairy is another food group that may surprise some: it had an even lower inflammation score than fish.
Speaking of inflammations, doctors really wish people would stop believingthese five myths.
Andhere are four more tipsfor keeping it away with food.
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