Is the Paleo Community Right About Saturated Fat? A Look at the Evidence
This post is the third in our “Study Series,” the blog series we started to give a deep dive into the nutrition studies that are so often thrown around in… Read More
How to Avoid Eating Trans Fats – and why it Matters
Trans fats are a particularly dangerous type of fat that are great at preserving the shelf life of processed foods, but terrible for your cardiovascular health. Sadly, though, the Food… Read More
What we can learn from an 18 country study on dietary fat
In our first Study Series post, titled What is a Good Carb? we looked at a new study that is music to the ears of the plant based community. That… Read More
Why your salad needs fat – but not just any fat
Updated August 2nd, 2017 While researching the bioavailability of lycopene yesterday, I came across a series of interesting studies. Lycopene is a well known type of carotenoid, as is beta-carotene…. Read More
#22 – How to Tell if Eggs are Good for You with Dr. Aaron Gardner
In the world of nutrition, perhaps no other topic is as controversial as eggs and cholesterol. On one side of the debate, the plant based community tells us eating eggs are… Read More
In Defense of DNA Diets (They can and do Work)
If you have been Googling “do DNA diets work?” you may have found an article written by Scientific American titled “Matching DNA to a Diet Does Not Work.” The JAMA… Read More
5 Tips for Lower Cholesterol by Enhancing Cholesterol Clearance
Want to lower cholesterol? It’s a worthy goal. High LDL-C is one of the major risk factors for heart disease. When approaching a cholesterol lowering plan of attack, it may… Read More
Personalized Nutrition Insights for Your Clients
Are you a physician, dietitian or nutritionist who advises clients on nutrition decisions? Use Gene Food’s custom nutrition platform to find the diet that works best for your clients and… Read More
What is Nutrigenomics?
Nutrigenomics, nutrigenetics, nutriepigenetics, nutritional genomics, DNA diets – whatever you call it, it’s the future of human nutrition and health. What is nutrigenomics, though? At its core, nutrigenomics is an… Read More
Scientific Process
This is an election year, so perhaps you are following a blog like Nate Silver maintains at FiveThirtyEight? FiveThirtyEight keeps a running tally of the likelihood that various candidates will… Read More
Should you take PCSK9 inhibitors?
First up, what is PCSK9 and why would you want to inhibit it? The short answer is that PCSK9 is a protein that helps regulate cholesterol levels. The more you… Read More
Ranking the 20 Foods Highest in Cholesterol
Cholesterol is so fundamental to life that our body’s make 80% of the cholesterol in our system at any given time. In fact, all our cells can make their own… Read More