Morning Calories vs. Evening Calories 

Morning Calories vs. Evening Calories 

Why are calories eaten in the morning less fattening than calories eaten in the evening?  One reason calories consumed in the morning are less fattening than those eaten in the evening is that more calories are burned off in the morning due to diet-induced...
Fighting Cancer and the Common Cold with Garlic 

Fighting Cancer and the Common Cold with Garlic 

Raw garlic is compared to roasted, stir-fried, simmered, and jarred garlic. Garlic lowers blood pressure, regulates cholesterol, and stimulates immunity. I’ve talked before about its effect on heart disease risk factors, but what about immunity? Eating garlic appears...
Lose Weight by Eating More in the Morning 

Lose Weight by Eating More in the Morning 

A calorie is not a calorie. It isn’t only what you eat, but when you eat.  Mice are nocturnal creatures. They eat during the night and sleep during the day. However, if you only feed mice during the day, they gain more weight than if they were fed a similar amount of...
Circadian Rhythms and Our Health and Weight 

Circadian Rhythms and Our Health and Weight 

Given the power of chronotherapy—how the same dose of the same drugs taken at a different time of day can have such different effects—it’s no surprise that chronoprevention approaches, like meal timing, can also make a difference. The 2017 Nobel Prize in Medicine was...
Milk Hormones and Female Infertility 

Milk Hormones and Female Infertility 

Dairy consumption is associated with years of advanced ovarian aging, thought to be due to the steroid hormones or endocrine-disrupting chemicals in cow’s milk.   When it comes to the amount of steroid hormones we are exposed to in the food supply, dairy “milk...