30 Jul Why most food labels are wrong about calories
Food labels seem to provide all the information a thoughtful consumer needs, so counting calories should be simple. But things get tricky because food labels tell only half the story.
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09 Jan OP-ED: The global food problem isn’t what you think
Providing food security to the nearly 10 billion people who will inhabit the globe by 2050 is one of the key issues of the 21st century. Given that reality, you might think the international community would at least be able to agree on how to define the problem. Unfortunately, you would be wrong.
14 Apr Dieters move past calories, food makers follow
Obsessing over calories alone has left dieters with an empty feeling. And so calorie counting that defined dieting for so long is giving way to other considerations, like the promise of more fibre or natural ingredients. That is chipping away at the popularity...
29 Aug What makes you fat: too many calories, or the wrong carbohydrates?
Rigorously controlled studies may soon give us a definitive answer about what causes obesity — excessive calories or the wrong carbohydrates. This intriguing article in Scientific American is by well-known scince writer, Gary Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), and Why We...
07 Mar Still believe ‘a calorie is a calorie’?
If you do, you fly in the face of mounting and incontrovertible evidence that some calories - in particular, "sugar calories" - are jeopardising both your and your family's health. Physicians and politicians who cling to the dogma that "all calories should...
10 Jan Special Obesity Report: Food companies’ ambivalence in the obesity battle
For food and drinks companies, rising obesity rates present a conundrum. Companies have a duty to their shareholders to make money. All big food companies are working hard to sell more products to more of the world. Many unhealthy products are very...