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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 30, 20185 min read
Diet and Evolution: How Modern Diets Clash with our Genes
Why is obesity a problem today? Why does high blood pressure and diabetes continue to rise, while cardiovascular disease remains the...
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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 30, 201811 min read
Nutrition Tracking: The Ultimate Guide and Resource Page
Others meticulously record the quantity and nutritional breakdown of all the food they eat. No matter which technique people use to track...
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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 29, 20183 min read
Wellness Technology Review: Heart Rate Monitors
Quantifying your heart rate pervasively is becoming easier as technology continues to shrink, battery power continues to improve, and...
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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 29, 20184 min read
How to Track Sugar Intake - An Easy Step-by-Step Guide
Step 1: Identify the individual food items in your meal. · Step 2: Calculate the quantity of each serving of foods with nutrition labels...
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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 29, 20183 min read
Healthiest Herb: The Math that Proves Which Herb is Healthiest
Herbs are nutrient-packed, flavor-dense veggies that are an excellent addition to your meals for both flavor and health. But what is the...
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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 29, 20185 min read
Macronutrient Intake: America Averages [Interactive Charts]
Carbohydrate Intake; Sugar Intake; Fat Intake; Saturated Fat Intake; Protein Intake. Sugars are a subcategory of total carbohydrates, and...
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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 29, 20183 min read
How Vitamins Helped Shape Modern Medicine
Nutrition science is often the center of jokes about the seemingly never-ending flow of contradicting research. Eggs are good for you....
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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 29, 20182 min read
Sugar Consumption in America: Do You Eat More than Average?
We’ve heard it before: _We eat too much sugar! _But just how high is sugar consumption in America? Short answer? Very High. “90% of...
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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 29, 20184 min read
High Protein Diet for Weight Loss: What Your DNA Says About It
Adding protein to your diet can help you lose weight and sticking with a high protein diet can help you keep the weight off. But the...
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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 29, 20185 min read
Micronutrient Deficiency: 5 Groups At Risk
Most of the world does not eat a well-balanced diet. In fact, the Global Nutrition Report has found that 1 in 3 people are malnourished.
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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 29, 20182 min read
How to Make Traditional Sardinian Sweet and Sour Zucchini
When you’re looking for new recipes that are healthy, but also insanely delicious, look no further than Sardinia, Italy. Sardinia, Italy...
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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 28, 201833 min read
Nutrition Data: The Ultimate Guide to Personalized Nutrition
"Food, once our source of health, has become our biggest source of disease.” In order to get the world's diet back on track, and to...
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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 28, 20185 min read
Chronic Disease Prevention: 7 Nutrition Related Diseases
Diet is one of the most important lifestyle factors for health. Learn about 7 nutrition related chronic diseases.
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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 27, 20182 min read
Nutrition Goals: Set What Matters Most
It doesn't matter if you are trying to lose weight, improve your athletic performance, or fend of chronic diseases. When it comes to your...
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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 27, 20185 min read
Too Much Protein: Is It Possible? Who Should Cut Back?
Is it possible to eat too much protein? In this post, we’ll summarize the research to see how much protein you need per day and what...
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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 27, 20184 min read
Diet and Longevity: Okinawa's Secret
For some us, numbers just make sense. So when I learned that inhabitants of Okinawa, Japan (one of the Blue Zones harboring a...
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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 27, 20184 min read
Logging Food: The Tools and Strategies to Do It Right
For example, maxing out athletic performance usually requires more quantitative and more accurate food logging techniques.
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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 27, 20184 min read
Biohacking Diet for Optimal Nutritional Health
What it comes to biohacking, diet and nutrition are key parameters to focus on for optimizing and personalizing your health.
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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 27, 20184 min read
How to Track Dietary Fat Intake (A Step-by-Step Guide)
This step-by-step guide, part of our series on nutrition tracking, will teach you how to track dietary fat intake. Dietary fats are...
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Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 27, 20182 min read
3 Global Micronutrient Deficiencies: How You Can Help
Persistence of Global Micronutrient Deficiencies Although the developed world has largely eliminated many acute diseases that stem from...
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