It’s been more than a year that we’ve all been ranting and raving about Quiznos not publicising their nutritional information. Well, along comes Yoni, an Ottawa-based nutrition blogger with a great blog (bmimdecial.blogspot.com).
He recently posted an entry pointing to Quiznos nutritional information in Australia.
I still don’t know the calorie count of my chicken carbonara […]
I’ve always had some idea that people in hot climates eat spicy food because it helps prevent spoilage. Not sure where I got this idea, but there you have it. Research topic!
It turns out that various spices do in fact have anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties, but the level of protection is NOT related […]
Happy New Year to you all! If one of your new year’s resolutions is to lose weight then this might be interesting to you:
As if the Atkins diet wasn’t already enough! The BBC is telling us that another extreme diet will be hitting the North American bookstands in 2006.
The “Total Wellbeing Diet” was created […]
In this post, I share information that leads me to believe that a little bit of sugar is better than a lot of artificial sweetener.
Table sugar has 4 calories per gram (15 calories per teaspoon). This is the same as other carbohydrates and protein. Alcohol has 7 calories per gram, and fat has 9 calories […]
There is a big consumer trend towards buying organic products whenever possible. Organic foods are safer, tastier, and more nutritious than the old non-organic stuff, right? Well, it turns out that the answer is not so clear. In the land of nutrition and food science it never really is!
Organic Fruits and Vegetables
It’s common sense that […]
Knowledge of fats and oils has changed over the years and is sure to change again in the future. The best we can do is to understand what the experts are saying today. Here’s my summary of the latest knowledge, presented as clearly as I am able.
Fats and oils contain different quantitities of more than […]