Eating more protein may improve your health Omnivore or vegan? Let’s say you read my last blog post. You believe that eating at least 1.2 grams of protein per kg of body weight each day (at the low end of the range in the previous post) would improve your health. What might you eat to…
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Do You Eat Enough Protein?
Official guidelines may be too low Increase protein at breakfast Science can be bothersome at times, providing contradictory guidelines for what we eat. The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for protein is expressed as number of grams of protein eaten per kilogram of body weight per day. For both adult men and adult women, experts proposed…
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Eat Earlier, Lose Weight
Having trouble losing weight? Try this. Make breakfast or lunch rather than dinner your biggest meal of the day. Recent studies suggest that shifting eating to earlier in the day can help you lose weight. Without having to cut or count calories. Overweight or obese volunteers in California were eating-restricted to 10 hours per day…
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Snack Better With Healthy Snacks
Snack Better with Healthy Snacks Snacks are frowned upon by health authorities. They cite the abundance of sugar, fat, and salt in most snack food-like materials. But can you imagine not snacking? I can't. Rather than feeling guilty about snacking, I suggest a better approach: Snack better with healthy snacks. Do tasty, portable, and healthy…
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