Food and Diet. Find daily health food tips and ideas from Dr. David Samadi. Discover healthy food for healthy living. Explore major food issues and debates related to health such as buying and cooking with organic food, genetically modified food (GMO versus Non-GMO), nutrition, dieting epidemic, obesity, disease prevention, best digestion foods.
Mom was right (but aren’t they always). Eating your greens is a good thing but in this case, not just any greens will do. The darker the green and the leafier the vegetable, the better for you they will be. When we consume leafy greens frequently, we are the ones who reap the nutritional value they offer us.
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Raise your hand if you’ve ever gone on a diet to lose some weight. Raise both hands if you have gone on more than one diet. Most likely, many of you raised both hands - not unusual considering there are dozens upon dozens of diets vying for our attention. From high protein to low fat to low carbohydrate, all of them will claim to be the latest and greatest way of eating to solve your weight loss woes.
Read MoreFiber helps regulate the body's use of sugars, helping to keep hunger and blood sugar in check.
Read MoreChinese food may not help you lose weight, but eating with chopsticks will. Despite not always being the easiest, eating our Chinese, or any other food with chopsticks, forces you to go slow, and that is where the benefit comes in.
Read MoreWhat did you have for breakfast today? If you’re trying to lose extra pounds or prevent them to begin with, consuming a high protein breakfast may be an answer. There’s more research than ever demonstrating how a high-protein breakfast is being used as a successful strategy in promoting weight loss and/or preventing weight gain both in teenagers and adults.
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