We live in an age where technology makes everything easier. You can access the entire internet in the palm of your hand. You can talk to a thermostat and tell it to raise and lower the temperature in…
If you run a web search for “lose weight fast,” you will no doubt find many people trying to sell you the latest crash diet craze. Most of these diets rely on incredibly restrictive, one-size-fits-all diets. They often…
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…
Let’s face it—when it comes to a diet, most people are looking forward to that one glorious day: the cheat day. You’ve made the decision to choose healthy eating practices; you’ve ditched carbs and highly processed foods; you’re…
Sometimes all it takes is a little push. For years, junk food and soda companies have been barraging kids with advertisements selling their dangerously sweet and unhealthy products. If you grew up in the ‘90s, it felt all…
As consumers begin to recognize that the keto diet can help them reach their health goals, the popularity of the diet has likewise risen. As keto has become commonplace, food producers have taken notice. New keto-approved food products…
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…
There is a bounty of emerging research and case studies that show the benefits of low-carb (and specifically keto) dieting when it comes to dealing with Type 2 diabetes (T2D). For years now, doctors around the world have…
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…