Marie spano

Does Your Food Contain More Calories the Food Label Indicates?

January 9, 2010 / 2 minutes of reading

If you rely on counting calories on your food labels and restaurant menus, you may be getting more calories than you bargained for according to a study published in this month’s Journal of the American Dietetic Association. Tufts University researchers examined the accuracy of labels and nutrition facts information on 29 reduced-energy restaurant foods and 10 frozen meals purchased from grocery stores. Total calorie content from the quick-serve and sit-down restaurants averaged 18% more than what was listed on the …

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Making Your New Year’s Resolution a Reality

January 6, 2010 / 3 minutes of reading

It’s day 6, where’s your New Year’s resolution?  If you are having trouble sticking with it or you just don’t believe in yourself, I’m going to give you the top determinants of success for behavioral change: 1) You have to believe in yourself. Yesterday I met with a lady who was basically talking herself out of getting past this 30 lb weight loss barrier she’s had in the past. We hardly talked about nutrition but instead worked on reframing her …

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Dietary Fat Intake – Does it Affect Weight?

January 5, 2010 / 2 minutes of reading

The following advice has become a mantra engrained in our society’s battle of the bulge: “If you want to lose weight and improve your health, eat a low fat diet”. And for years I bought into this during the carb-frenzy fat-free 1990s. But then I entered graduate school and started reading the research (and I was just plain hungry all the time).  A low fat did work for many people who were obese or overweight because cutting fat meant they …

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Food that Makes your Seasonal Allergies Worse

April 8, 2009 / 2 minutes of reading

Do certain foods make your throat itchy or lead to a host of other allergy-like symptoms? You could have oral allergy syndrome, also known as food-pollen allergy syndrome. Oral allergy syndrome affects people allergic to seasonal (fall or spring) pollen from ragweed, grass, birch and other grasses, weeds and trees. Oral allergy syndrome is not the same as a food allergy. Your food is actually playing tricks on you. A protein within the particular culprit food is similar to the …

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