Scientists raise awareness of need for sound science in age of fad diets
... of Wisconsin, Madison, will address the impact of fad diets on market stability and agriculture production. WHERE: 2226 Rayburn House Office Building WHEN: Thursday, June 17th at 12 noon Representing 130,000 individual scientists from 21 scientific organizations, CoFARM is a broadly based coal......ists has declined since the late-1980s when it hit fad status. At the time, efforts to "recover" repressed childhood trauma memories were encouraged by such popular books as The Courage to Heal. "But there still are people who use trauma-oriented memory approaches to therapy. And our re...Consuming more protein, less carbohydrates may be healthier
...rable body weight and overall health. For 30 years fad diets and various nutritional recommendations have come and gone, said Donald Layman, a professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Illinois. The result: Americans take in more calories than ever, obesity is at an all-time high, and hear...UT Southwestern to study effect of low-carbohydrate diet on kidney-stone formation and bone loss
...western Medical Center at Dallas to zero in on the fad diet to see if it increases the risk of kidney stones and loss of bone. Drs. Shalini Reddy and Chia-Ying Wang, both assistant professors of internal medicine, hope to complete the first phase of a two-phase study by the end of November. They decided...