Even though the benefits of low-carb eating is supported by more studies on a regular basis, little change seems to be happening with the United States Department of Agriculture’s dietary guidelines. The USDA publishes new dietary guidelines for…
Within the last decade, United States citizens have been turning their heads towards their diets to solve their weight problems by cutting out the processed and refined foods and replacing them with healthier alternatives. Even more recently, the…
We’ve written a lot both here and at Tasteaholics about the sugar industry’s knack for deceiving the public through the decades. This has happened through deceptive advertising, fake grassroots movements, and was recently seen in last year’s big news…
Soda taxes are still a relatively new phenomenon, as it was only recently that governments were forced to reckon with previously unimaginable rates of obesity and the high costs they incur. The United States is one of the…
Philadelphia has been thrown back into a battle over the city’s soda tax, proving once more that private interests are capable of driving the issues of concern in local politics. An astounding 40 percent of all the lobbying…
The fight against big soda is slowly but surely making its way from U.S. cities to the states themselves. In Connecticut, the governor’s office is pushing to enact the first state-wide soda tax in the face of massive…
It’s no secret that food and drink manufacturers have been at pains to develop sugar alternatives for decades now, responding to increasing global awareness about the dangers of too much sugar in our diets. From the packets of…
It’s impossible to argue: keto has taken off to become one of the world’s most popular diets. In 2018, keto took first place as the most-queried diet on Google Search. According to a survey of over 2,000 dietitians…
For public health advocates, experts, and parents concerned about the amount of sugar their children have access to, there have been a number of promising developments worldwide in the fight against the worst offenders: sugary drinks and sodas.…
Canadian pathologist Dr. Barbra Allen Bradshaw and a cohort of her peers have gone to war against Canada’s food guide.1 The group, called Canadian Clinicians for Therapeutic Nutrition, criticizes the food guide as a one-size-fits-all approach that relies on…