What happens within hours of eating a high-fat meal? We are only as old as our arteries. What can we do to preserve arterial function as we age?…
Read more How a Single Meal Can Cripple Your Arteries and Lungs | NutritionFacts.orgMost crops are contaminated with fungal mycotoxins, but some foods are worse than others. Oats can be thought of as “uniquely nutritious.” One route by which they improve…
Read more Mold Toxins in Cereals, Herbs, Spices, and Wine | NutritionFacts.orgOne of the few food contaminants found at higher levels in those eating plant-based diets are mycotoxins, fungal toxins in moldy food ingredients, such as oats. In France,…
Read more Fungal Toxins for Breakfast? | NutritionFacts.orgImplausible explanations for the obesity epidemic serve the needs of food manufacturers and marketers more than public health and an interest in truth. When it comes to uncovering…
Read more Obesity and a Toxic Food Environment | NutritionFacts.orgPlastering front-of-package nutrient claims on cereal boxes is an attempt to distract us from the incongruity of feeding our children multicolored marshmallows for breakfast. The American Medical Association…
Read more Children’s Cereals: Candy for Breakfast? | NutritionFacts.orgPublic health authorities continue to lower the upper tolerable limit of daily added sugar intake. Dating back to the original “Dietary Goals for the United States” in 1977,…
Read more How Much Added Sugar Is Okay? | NutritionFacts.orgThe industry responds to the charge that breakfast cereals are too sugary. In 1941, the American Medical Association’s Council on Foods and Nutrition was presented with a new…
Read more Are Fortified Children’s Breakfast Cereals Just Candy? | NutritionFacts.org
