HLTH355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 53: Fad Diet, Sugar Substitute, Gluten

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH355
• Professor: Sharon Kirkpatrick

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Hlth 355 public health nutrition october 4th 2018. New york times tweet picture: americans spend over a month for every man, woman, and child for substances that are often of a questionable value. Picture: arti(cid:272)le titled (cid:862)ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374)(cid:859)s are (cid:272)o(cid:374)fused a(cid:271)out s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:448)s. opi(cid:374)io(cid:374), poll suggests(cid:863) Food & nutrition examples: fad diets/cleanses & detoxes. Vilifying certain foods/dietary components (cid:858)free(cid:859) gluten-free, sugar-free, dairy-free. Recognizing fad diets: contain magic or miracle foods or proprietary ingredients. Promote bizarre quantities of foods or elimination of classes of foods. Low carb versus low protein: does not appear to be a difference for weight maintenance/ loss. Moving on to focus on foods, not nutrients, e. g. , level of processing. Article: 10 superfoods for creating superhuman abilities. Picture of tweet by di: coconut ash lattes are better at cleansing your wallet than your body. Picture: how foods stack up, gluten-free does(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:374)e(cid:272)essaril(cid:455) (cid:373)ea(cid:374) healthier, tables comparing different foods and their health statistics.