The Complex Relationship Between Fruit Juice and Heart Health
Fruit juice is undoubtedly high in sugar. This bottle of Minute Maid orange juice (“never sweetened”) contains about a full day’s worth of “free sugar”!…
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Do You Need to Relax about Sugar?
It’s possible. In the past couple of decades, sugar has become as much of a heart health villain as fat used to be. Much of…
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How to Follow the Mediterranean Diet When You’re 10,000km Away (part 2)
In part one of this series I shared the dietary guidance from four randomized controlled trials that found significant improvements in cardiovascular outcomes in people…
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How to Follow the Mediterranean Diet When You’re 10,000km Away (part 1)
To many people here in cold, landlocked Canada (and much of the US), adopting a Mediterranean dietary pattern (MedDP) sounds as realistic as swimming with…
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What’s the Deal with Eggs if You Have Heart Concerns?
If you’ve had heart concerns for longer than five minutes, you’ve probably heard conflicting news about eggs. It’s so frustrating! Truly, most studies (and headlines),…
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What is Ultrafiltered Milk, and is it Better for Heart Health?
Have you heard of ultrafiltered milk? It’s been on store shelves for nearly ten years, since the widely stocked brand “Fairlife” was launched by (checks…
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Cheese and Heart Health: What’s the Story?
Cheese! Glorious cheese. Cheese might just be the most common food I see people avoiding unnecessarily for heart health. Tragic. We hear that we should…
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When “heart-healthy” isn’t the healthiest choice
We tend to think of heart-healthy nutrition principles as widely applicable. If prioritizing vegetables, watching salt, and limiting juice is good for us, why not…
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Label reading for heart health in Canada: The definitive guide
Introduction There is so much nutrition information on packaged food, people often struggle to make sense of it all. Even if you’ve been reading labels…
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Canada’s New Alcohol Guidance: Your Heart Health Questions Answered
If you’re in Canada, by now you’ve likely heard something about the new guidance on alcohol and health from the Canadian Centre for Substance Use…
