Try it Tuesday: Blood (Sweat and Tears) Type Diet Trial
August 16, 2016
If you’ve enjoyed any of our recent posts from IFIC Foundation staff trialing various diets and eating styles, then you may be interested in this one as well. I came…
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Why the Study Linking High Infant BMI and Low Calorie Sweeteners is Misleading
May 12, 2016
Another day, another study on low-calorie sweeteners. This latest study looked at associations between women who reported drinking beverages containing low-calorie sweeteners while pregnant and the body mass index of their…
Citrus: Great Fruits for Heart Health
March 4, 2016
February is American Heart Month. It’s also National Grapefruit Month in the U.S. This confluence wasn’t lost on us, and it got us thinking: What role does citrus play in…
New Dietary Guidelines: What Changed & What Stayed the Same
December 11, 2015
Let me take you back to 1980. Pac-Man was king, the Post-It was brand new, and Blondie topped the charts. It was also the debut of the Dietary Guidelines for…
FDA Findings Help Validate IFIC Foundation Research on Added Sugars Labeling
August 13, 2015
On July 24, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced an update to its proposal to revise the iconic Nutrition Facts Panel (NFP). The proposal now includes a %DV…
3 Things You Need to Know about the Latest Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Claims
July 1, 2015
The latest headlines could definitely make us panic about having the occasional soda. Because we recently dove into both junk science sins and how studies can get distorted in press…
Friendly Fats: Are Americans wising up?
May 29, 2015
The 2015 Food & Health Survey is hot off the presses and has yielded some surprising results on dietary fats. 3 in 10 Americans have recently changed their opinion about…
What Paying Taxes has to do with Your Diet
April 15, 2015
Happy Tax Day everyone! I hope you all enjoyed the perils of receipt sorting and reporting our 2014 home economics. This annual exercise has me thinking about economics too, but maybe not about the…
Fats Friday: Marching on with Heart Health
February 27, 2015
To celebrate American Heart Month, our #FatsFriday February blog series has focused on the heart-boosting benefits of dietary fats—they’re not the villain once thought to be. All month we’ve written…
Fats Friday: Fatten Up Your Grill Game
February 20, 2015
Who doesn’t love a backyard barbecue? This time of year, though,, Americans are more concerned with whiteouts than cookouts. Let’s forget about Old Man Winter for a minute—we’ve spent way…