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13 03, 2024

The Research on Soy and Soy Foods

By Rosanne Rust|2024-04-19T21:12:10-04:00March 13th, 2024|Food Facts, Food Trends, Health Professionals, Healthy Aging, Wellness|Comments Off on The Research on Soy and Soy Foods

There is so much misinformation about soy and soy foods. It's been blamed for everything from breast cancer to male feminization. Let's take a quick look. Research on Women There is a lot of research surrounding the health benefits of soy for women. In fact, including soy foods [...]

9 06, 2023

What’s the Real Deal with Sucralose Risk?

By Rosanne Rust|2023-06-10T11:29:30-04:00June 9th, 2023|Family, Food Facts, Food Trends, Health Professionals, Weight Management, Wellness|Comments Off on What’s the Real Deal with Sucralose Risk?

Fear sells. Or rather, does it prevents sales? Hmmn? By now you've seen the recent news headlines claimed that the chemical found in Splenda was found to "cause significant health damage" or "damages DNA and is ‘Genotoxic’" or "generates genotoxic chemicals that attack DNA". Nonetheless, this [...]

30 12, 2015

2016 Resolution: Fact Check Your Source, Leave out the Politics

By Rosanne Rust|2024-03-27T13:01:48-04:00December 30th, 2015|DASH Diet/Wellness, Food Facts|Comments Off on 2016 Resolution: Fact Check Your Source, Leave out the Politics

When I starting writing this blog four years ago my goal was to shed some light on the many misconceived views about food and nutrition. The new media has delivered. There continue to be so many conflicting messages, in some cases completely false, that get repeated by journalists and consumers until people [...]