Coverage from The New York Times, featuring HSPH’s David Ludwig and Dariush Mozaffarian.
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Slimming down alone, together
Coverage from The Atlantic, featuring HSPH’s Walter Willett
Rethinking fat: The case for adding some into your diet
Coverage from NPR, featuring HSPH’s Walter Willett and Dariush Mozaffarian
Sugar, salt and supplements: Sorting out the science
Coverage from the Forum at HSPH, featuring Frank Hu and Dariush Mozaffarian
Dietary fat and heart disease study is seriously misleading
The journal Annals of Internal Medicine recently published a paper suggesting there is no evidence supporting the longstanding recommendation to limit saturated fat consumption. Media reporting on the paper included headlines such as “No link found between saturated fat and heart disease” and articles saying “Saturated fat shouldn’t be demonized” springing up on social media.
Protein, carbs, and weight loss
How might a high-protein, low-carb diet lead to weight loss more quickly than a low-fat, high-carb diet, at least in the short run?
- First, chicken, beef, fish, beans, and other high-protein foods move more slowly from the stomach to the intestine. Slower stomach emptying means you feel full for longer and get hungrier later.
Straight talk about soy
We’ve been told that regularly eating soy-based foods lowers cholesterol, calms hot flashes, prevents breast and prostate cancer, aids weight loss, and wards off osteoporosis. Some of these benefits have been attributed to a unique characteristic of soybeans—their high concentration of isoflavones, a type of plant-made estrogen (phytoestrogen). However, some of the claims made for soy were based on preliminary evidence.
The problem with potatoes
In the U.S., people eat an average of 126 pounds of potatoes per person each year. (1) However, potatoes don’t count as a vegetable on Harvard’s Healthy Eating Plate because they are high in carbohydrate – and in particular, the kind of carbohydrate that the body digests rapidly, causing blood sugar and insulin to surge and then dip (in scientific terms, they have a high glycemic load).
The future of Human Longevity Conference
Coverage from Swiss Re, featuring HSPH’s Frank Hu
Food stamps may not improve food security, diet quality
Coverage from Baltimore Sun, featuring HSPH’s Eric Rimm