Are You a Supertaster?

Do you turn your nose up at black coffee?  Can’t stand bitter foods like broccoli, spinach or green tea?  If so, you might be a supertaster.  Thanks to an extra bunch of taste buds on the tip of your tongue, these bitter flavors taste more strongly to you than they do to most people. It’s [...]

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Healthy Eating: Can You Eat Too Much Healthy Food?

Last week, a friend was telling me that he’d eaten a huge serving of a delicious end-of-the-summer watermelon the evening before. Afterwards, he got to thinking – did he overdo it? Can you, in fact, eat too much of what’s good for you? I get asked this a lot, particularly when it comes to fruit. [...]

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Buffet Behavior – All You Can Eat or All You Should Eat?

Picture yourself at an all-you-can-eat buffet. Are you facing the buffet, or are you sitting with your back to it? Are you in a booth or at a table? Do you cruise the whole buffet line before deciding what to eat, or do you just plunge right in? To the well-trained eye, the way you [...]

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Food Cravings and Your Body

Are food cravings really the body’s way of telling us we’re lacking certain nutrients? The belief holds that nature creates these strong and specific food cravings so we’ll consume the necessary foods to make up the deficit. It seems like a logical connection – that pregnant women, for example, must crave ice cream because they [...]

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Healthy Breakfast

Healthy Breakfast What did you have for breakfast today? What do you have for breakfast? Chances are, like most people, you have either a simple carbohydrate ‘meal’ of toast or cereal, or you skip breakfast entirely (usually leading to mid-morning snacking). Both of these approaches lead to rapid increases in blood sugar and insulin, carbohydrate [...]

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