by Keith-Thomas Ayoob, EdD, RD, FADA Sleep can be a Catch-22: Most people who are sleep-deprived feel lousy; and people who feel lousy often struggle to sleep. Two new studies suggest food can perpetuate this unhealthy cycle in teens, particularly in teenage girls. One of the studies, which were presented at the meeting of the Ass...
read more >Want Your Family To Eat Better? Give 'em A Pizza Your Mind! by Keith-Thomas Ayoob, EdD, RD, FADA I hear it all the time. Parents want their kids (and sometimes their spouses) to eat better, but all they want are burgers, fries, hot dogs, and pizza. Maybe you shouldn’t lump pizza in with the rest of that bunch.&n...
read more >Thanksgiving ... for many it's all about the turkey ... use caution!!! by Dr. Keith Ayoob True story -- about twenty-two years ago my father had a "preventive" quadruple bypass. Didn't have a heart attack or anything, but they found clogged arteries and wanted to prevent things. Well, it happened in mid-October and gave us all a reminder ...
read more >Do you eat too fast? Slowing down may slim you down! by Keith-Thomas Ayoob, EdD, RD, FADA If you’re trying to lose a few pounds and you’re also someone who finishes eating before the others at the table, then you’re going to be interested in a new study that was just published in the Journal of the American Dietetic As...
read more >by Keith-Thomas Ayoob, EdD, RD, FADA Sports Drinks? Energy Drinks? You Need To Know The Difference And So Do Your Kids You’ve seen both of these beverages advertised to oblivion: sports drinks that help you replace needed electrolytes lost during sweating when you workout or play hard. Energy drinks for when you need t...
read more >by Dr. Keith Ayoob The holidays are over, those New Year’s resolutions you made turned out to be a bit lofty, the weather is cold and gloomy, and if you live north of about the Mason-Dixon line, you probably get little or no sun. Good old “SAD” – seasonal depressive disorder. So why am I mentioning it? Because SAD o...
read more >Diet and picnic. These two words are not usually used together – unless the phrase “is not a” connects them. Why? Because picnics are fun and people think dieting has to be torturous. They associate dieting with deprivation: no taste, no fun, no enjoyment. Ugh! Who’d want to do that...
read more >The all-you-can-eat buffet is everywhere. Pay one flat price, usually it’s pretty reasonable, and you can go back to the trough as many times as you like. You can get all those new appetizers, tons of different entrees, even hit the soft-serve ice cream machine and sculpt your mountain of vanilla like the pros do. Chinese bu...
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