The Diet Diary

Does your blood pressure rise when you are stressed? Everyone’s does. But, researchers at Penn State have found that eating pistachios can reduce the amount your blood pressure rises during stress– and that’s a good thing if you have high blood pressure!
Now it turns out that pistachios don’t necessarily reduce the blood pressure when you […]

Fit this cucumber salad into your Volumetrics diet plan: you’ll eat less naturally. Cucumbers are nearly all water; sugar is the only ingredient with any significant number of calories making the dish the ultimate low energy density salad.
The salad takes very little work but must be prepared 4 hours before serving. I serve […]

Adding macadamia nuts to your diet has been shown to reduce total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride levels compared with the standard American diet.
In a study conducted by Dr. Amy E. Griel, recent Ph.D. recipient in nutritional sciences form Penn State, a group of participants with slightly elevated cholesterol levels were […]

Scientists have developed a process to make cocoa powder with 8 times the heart healthy flavenoids.
Lead by Juan Carlos Espin de Gea of Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura (CEBAS) scientists figured out how to omit the fermetation and roasting process ordinarily used to create cocoa powder. They then did […]

We’ve all heard that muscles burn calories even when we don’t exercise. So, adding some muscle can aid weight loss. Would you like a boost that doesn’t require even more exercise?
Eat Omega-3s fatty acids!

A research team led by Carole Thivierge, from Universite Laval’s Institute of Nutraceutics and Functional Foods, has been studying the […]

News-flash: The consensus of health experts is that moderate coffee consumption is entirely ok!
I drink a lot of coffee and I always run into people who try to convince me there is something wrong with it. It turns out that health experts have been studying coffee and research shows most of the scary health […]