San Diego Nutrition and Health

Researches have conducted various studies in which participants were asked to wear a pedometer (a small device that clips to one’s belt or waistband and counts the number of steps the person takes during the day) and record the number of steps they took in a journal at the end of the day.  Analyzing the data [...]

I’m sure you’ve heard the popular saying, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.”  Well, a study conducted at the University of California-Davis gives us another reason to keep eating apples.  According to the researchers who conducted the study, apples and apple juice may protect your arteries from plaque build-up.  In the study, a group [...]

In the January 2007 issue of the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, researches reported that “cloudy” apple juice may mean healthier.  In the study, researches compared different varieties of apple juice and found that the pulpy, non-clear variety had more antioxidants than the clear varieties.  Cloudy juice had up to four times the [...]

Some of you may have known about turmeric for years.  I am new to this spice, but I was hearing about so many of its good nutritional properties that I wanted to learn more.  And, in case you are like me and weren’t aware of turmeric, I’ll share a few interesting tidbits. 
Turmeric is an Indian [...]

I am a child of the 80’s and as a teenager, the low-fat diet was the big craze.  So, I was eating my Twizzlers (no fat candy) and other high carb, low-fat foods while avoiding nuts and avocados and thinking I was being so good.  
The focus on low-fat by the medical community was an effort to curb the [...]

Besides the pretty obvious difference that brown rice is brown and white rice is, you guessed it, white (I know, tough question), there are huge nutritional differences between the two.  Food manufacturers create white rice through a milling process where they remove the outer layer, the bran layer, of the rice.  When the bran layer is [...]

I was talking with a lady today who said her children are allergic to nuts and she wondered what she could use as a substitute for nut butters (peanut butter, almond butter, cashew butter).  My first response was to ask if she has tried tahini, but come to find out, her kids are allergic to [...]

It’s amazing what a little dash or two of spices can do to add pizzazz to a recipe.  I have a lot of fun dressing up my kitchen creations with various spices.  The only problem though is that when I come up with a particularly good creation I don’t always remember how much of each [...]

When you think of sesame seeds do you think of hamburger buns or bread sticks?  These are two common places we see sesame seeds in the Standard American Diet.  And while the white bread the sesame seeds are attached to isn’t so good for you, the sesame seeds themselves are very healthy. 
Need more calcium in [...]

Calories are not created equal.  True, a calorie is a calorie, but when you look at what you can get for that calorie, the differences can be rather remarkable.  For instance, a package of Oreos has 2,200 calories.  Do you know what you could eat for that amount of calories if you were to choose [...]