by steve | May 22, 2018 | Articles
There continues to be enormous media attention and controversy surrounding the topic of whether breakfast is an important meal of the day. This is currently one of the “hottest” nutrition topics and is especially timely at the beginning of the school year when...
by steve | May 22, 2018 | Articles
Thirty years of nutrition and metabolism research has taught me two main lessons: 1) our bodies thrive on a diet consisting of 25% to 40% lean, healthy protein (from both plant and animal sources), along with at least 25% healthy fats and oils and lots of fresh...
by steve | May 22, 2018 | Articles
How many calories have you eaten today? How many steps have you taken today? If you’re one of the millions of people tracking every morsel of food you’ve eaten using MyfitnessPal or FatSecret, or wearing a fitness tracking device such as the Fitbit, Jawbone Up, Nike...
by steve | May 22, 2018 | Articles
By now, most of us are aware of the dangers of excess body fat. We accumulate body fat in two main compartments in our body. The most abundant site for fat storage is just beneath the surface of our skin, called subcutaneous fat. Subcutaneous fat is found all over the...
by steve | May 22, 2018 | Articles
It was January of 1994 and my wife and I had just welcomed our first son, Nicholas into the world. We were living in St. Louis, MO while I completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine in the Section of Applied Physiology. I...
