obesity

Sorting Through Nutrition Information to Develop an Individualized Approach

July 8, 2010 / 3 minutes of reading

At the ISSN conference a few weeks back, I had the opportunity to connect with good friends, pick the brains of some of the foremost sports nutrition scientists, talk sports nutrition strategies that work in the real world with the best sports dietitians in the country and learn about sports nutrition for Italy’s World Cup soccer players from Dr. Fabrizio Angelini (physician for Juventus) and Massimo Negro of Societa’ Italiana Nutrizione Sport e Benessere. And I soaked up every minute …

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Fat + Sugar Turn on the Genetic Switch to Obesity

December 5, 2009 / 2 minutes of reading

It’s no secret that people who move to the U.S. from other countries are likely to experience a something bigger than the American Dream – an expansion in their waistline. Food is everywhere, our serving sizes are huge and we eat on the run, wolfing down copious amounts of sugar and fat in the process. As if the empty calories weren’t enough, these foods may turn on a genetic switch to obesity. A recently published study in The FASEB Journal …

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