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Why Is A Healthy Diet Important? 10 Reasons To Eat Well
The number one reason why diets fail is simple, but not easy. See where to focus your strategy when it comes to figuring out your diet.
Brian Bender, PhD
Oct 2, 20186 min read
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Dietary Fiber Intake: What Is It, and How Much Do I Need?
We’re consistently told to add more fiber to our diets. Increasing your fiber intake is healthy for you, and Western diets are...
Brian Bender, PhD
Oct 1, 20185 min read
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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...
Brian Bender, PhD
Oct 1, 20185 min read
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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....
Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 30, 20183 min read
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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...
Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 30, 20182 min read
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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.
Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 30, 20185 min read
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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.
Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 29, 20185 min read
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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...
Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 28, 20185 min read
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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...
Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 28, 20184 min read
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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.
Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 28, 20184 min read
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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...
Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 28, 20182 min read
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What Counts as Fat?
The question isn’t as straightforward as it sounds. There’s what society says. This depends on where you live as much as it does when you...
Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 18, 20184 min read
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What is Metabolism? [Infographic]
1. BMR. Speaking of breathing, your basal metabolic rate, or BMR, is your “minimal cost of living.” That means, you need to burn these...
Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 17, 20182 min read
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Do Food Journals Work? Learn How to Make them Work for You
Nearly three decades of academic, peer-reviewed literature have demonstrated, time and again, that tracking your dietary intake...
Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 14, 20186 min read
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Top Non Meat Sources of Protein (Best of 6 Food Groups)
Nearly every type of meat is an excellent source of quality protein. Beef, poultry, fish, you name it. They all contain significant...
Brian Bender, PhD
Sep 13, 20185 min read
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