Latest Foodscience Podcast Episodes
Don't Fear the Fruit, Enjoy It
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - February 28, 2023 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDon't Fear the Fruit, Enjoy It Are you afraid that eating fruit will cause your blood sugar to spike? Let us bust that myth right now. Only ten percent of adults eat enough whole fruit daily despite the clear benefits of fruit. Eating fruit and Living Longer My 98-year-old dad eats fruit wi...
Salt: Toxicity is in the Dose
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - February 18, 2023 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsSalt: Toxicity is in the Dose For the human body, salt is both an essential metal and toxic at a high dose. The most common form of sodium comes from sodium chloride, a salt. However, too much salt and arteries become stiff, and the risk of heart disease and cardiovascular disease increases. ...
Why You Should Ditch Your Gas Stove
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - February 03, 2023 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWhy you should ditch your gas stove Did you ever wonder what the controversy is about gas stoves? There is no controversy. Gas range tops are responsible for high levels of indoor pollution. But what should we do? The answer, change to an induction cooking top Types of Indoor Cooking You can ...
Whole Grains Reduce Obesity
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - January 18, 2023 07:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWhole Grains Reduce Obesity While the low-carb world and its extremists will tell you that grains are evil, they are wrong. There is a significant difference between refined and whole grains. The difference Whole grains contain the bran, a fiber-rich outer sheath. Further whole gains have the...
Are Vegetables just BS?
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - January 11, 2023 07:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsAre Vegetables BS? If you have ever seen Paul Saldino, his famous line is that Kale is BS. He even sells the shirt. But are they? Saldino isn't the only one who proposes this. Dr. Gundry, a former heart surgeon, has his own take. Gundry claims modern health problems come from eating lectins. L...
The First Vitamin
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - December 22, 2022 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThe term vitamin was coined by the chemist Casimir Funk as he revealed the Thiamine structure to the world. So while you may think – isn’t vitamin A (it is the alphabet) the first vitamin – we take our poetic license here to point out that the first compound to be called a vitamin was Thiamine, ...
The Green Mediterranean Diet
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - December 13, 2022 07:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThe Green Mediterranean Diet Imagine being able to improve the Mediterranean Diet with a few changes. Is the new "Green" Mediterranean Diet the ultimate hack? The Green Mediterranean Diet (Green-Med) has become the hottest version of the MED diet yet. Advantages of the Green Mediterranean Die...
Carlos Velasco - Looking at the Big Picture
AigoraCast - December 07, 2022 15:34 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsCarlos Velasco is an associate professor at the Department of Marketing, BI Norwegian Business School (Norway), where he co-founded the Centre for Multisensory Marketing. Carlos received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Oxford University, after which he worked on a number of postdoctora...
LiverKing Falls From Grace
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - December 06, 2022 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsLiverKing Falls From Grace Not that anyone was surprised the so-called Liverking was using steroids. But he fooled many people that his diet and intense training led to this frame. The diet he recommended was some form of an "ancestral" diet. We have covered the carnivore-type diet before. So h...
Leaky Gut: Facts and Fads
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - November 30, 2022 07:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsLeaky Gut: Facts and Fads The latest fad of supplement makers is to talk about "gut health." The latest boogyman for the gut is the "leaky gut." The other name for leaky gut is intestinal permeability. A Surgeon's View As a surgeon, a "leaky gut" is a devastating surgical emergency. Surgeons ...
The Beer and Sausage Diet
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - November 22, 2022 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThe Beer and Sausage Diet There are a lot of crazy diets out there. All of them you can lose weight with. Weight loss has many advantages. But the beer and sausage diet was fun. Here is what we learned: A calorie is just a calorie Being in calorie deficit is difficult Meticulous journaling i...
Losing Weight with Apps
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - November 21, 2022 22:30 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsLosing Weight With Apps Can a phone app help you lose weight? How about with your cholesterol, blood pressure, or waist size? Perhaps you've heard the latest Noom ads, where they boast forty publications showing that their app will help you lose weight. Apple is coming out with more ways to h...
Decreasing Cholesterol drugs and diet
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - November 04, 2022 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDecreasing cholesterol: drugs and diet There is a persistent belief that lifestyle can take care of all cholesterol problems. Lifestyle can make things worse, but once things are worse, it cannot make things better. Once you have disease, or cholesterol is higher, you need treatment often beyo...
Carlos Gómez–Corona - Embrace Psychology
AigoraCast - October 19, 2022 15:50 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsCarlos Gómez–Corona is the Director Human Insights & Sensory at Firmenich. His main responsibilities are to understand the future consumption of proteins, and the perception of natural and sustainable flavors and ingredients. He has conducted research both in academia and the industry, as well a...
Alcohol and the Mediterranean Diet
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - October 12, 2022 07:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsAlcohol and the Mediterranean Diet Alcohol consumption is controversial. No one disputes that excess alcohol consumption leads to dire consequences. But what about moderate alcohol consumption? Can we define moderate alcohol consumption? Is there a safe and therapeutic level of alcohol consump...
Mediterranean Diet After Weight Loss Surgery
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - September 20, 2022 07:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsMediterranean Diet after weight loss surgery Success after weight loss surgery doesn't end with an operation. It just gets started. The most recalcitrant people to diets are those who undergo weight loss surgery. Weight loss surgery patients were on multiple diets prior to surgical interventio...
Implementing the Med Diet - Part One
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - September 16, 2022 07:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsImplementing the Med Diet - Part One Do you think you eat enough plants in your diet? How many plants do you eat in a week? Not refined grains, but plants. You can cook them, boil, bake, microwave, roast them or even eat them raw. How many? Further, it's not just eating more volume of plants, i...
Mediterranean Diet - Fats
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - September 15, 2022 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsMediterranean Diet - Fats Perhaps the most important part of the Mediterranean Diet is this plant. Olive oil is the single ingredient most associated with the Mediterranean Diet. It is the one single food substitution you can do that will improve your health immediately and have great conseque...
Mindy Yang - A Personalized Future
AigoraCast - September 14, 2022 15:18 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsFounder of a New York-based brand incubator, Mindy Yang is an advisor, investor, growth hacker, curator, and technical designer & creative director of fragranced, flavored, and functional products. As an expert on sensory sciences, psychology, marketing, brand strategy, wellness, and immer...
Inflammation and the Mediterranean Diet
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - September 02, 2022 07:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsInflammation and the Mediterranean Diet The Mediterranean Diet is the most anti-inflammatory diet studied. The inflammatory response is the body's mechanism to fight infection, repair itself and rid itself of cancer. Inflammation is a coordinated response to trauma, infection, and cancer. Wit...
Cancer and The Mediterranean Diet
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - August 26, 2022 07:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsAdherence to the Mediterranean Diet decreases the risk of cardiovascular disease. The Seven Country Cohort Study clearly showed this. But what about cancer? Does the Mediterranean Diet impact cancer or cancer prevention? To study this, another cohort study began called the EPIC study. Uniquely,...
Ancel Keys and Revisionist History
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - August 19, 2022 07:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWas Ancel Keys responsible for the modern epidemic of obesity? If you have read any low carb blog lately, you would think so. Their revisionist history is broken down to this: Ancel Keys was an influential scientist who thought fat was to blame for heart disease He did a study of diet and co...
The Modern Mediterranean Diet
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - August 04, 2022 07:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsScientists and dieticians consistently rank The Modern Mediterranean Diet (MED diet) as the diet most recommended. But often people don't know what the MED diet is. This post will define the Med diet. Critics of the Med Diet Critics argue that there is no uniform MED diet. They make these ...
Continuous Blood Glucose Monitors for Non-Diabetics
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - July 21, 2022 07:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsIf you don’t have diabetes, should you even consider a blood glucose monitor? Well, here is the science behind this new tiktok trend and why these Continuous Blood Glucose Monitors (CGM) are here to stay and what we know about them. The device First, the device – a continuous blood glucose mon...
Bioidentical Hormones Cause Weight Gain
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - July 12, 2022 07:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsAbout 15 years ago physician came to me telling me that she was opening a new venture, distributing plant-based bioidentical hormones, and surgically implanting those hormones as pellets. She wanted me to send her all of my patients who presented in menopause because "with bioidentical hormones ...
Vitamins and Supplements for Prevention of Heart Disease and Cancer
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - July 05, 2022 07:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThe US Preventative Task Force updated their recent recommendations about vitamins and supplements in The Journal of the American Medical Association - reference here. Their conclusion was: "Conclusions and Relevance Vitamin and mineral supplementation was associated with little or no benefi...
Can You Beet Hypertension?
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - June 27, 2022 07:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsIt turns out that the juice from beets may lower blood pressure in a sustained and lovely manner. Beets, you see, besides being a colorful vegetable, contain a high level of Nitrate (NO3-). And this is absorbed by the body and converted into nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is that amazing molecule th...
Collagen Supplements: Powders, Liquids, Potions, & Scams
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - May 04, 2022 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsCommon Collagen Claims (taken from actual websites selling collagen supplements): “improves skin elasticity,” “support bone and joint health,” “strengthen hair, skin, and nails,” “may benefit the bodies cellular structure,” “support healthy skin, bone, and joints.” “will feed your skin he...
Bill Lagakos and The Trouble With Diets
Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson - March 31, 2022 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDiets. They work for some, but not for others. "You're just not on the right diet," purveyors of the latest trend will tell you. "You're just not on the right diet for your blood type, ethnicity, age, hair color," says another set of true believers. So what's right and what's wrong? Today on ...
Nat Cole - For Every Reality
AigoraCast - March 18, 2022 16:29 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsNat Cole is a cryptocurrency and blockchain educator and consultant, working in the crypto & blockchain space for around 5 years. He is currently working on a 'Phygital' NFT Fashion project, mixing high-quality fashion design, sustainable materials, Web3, and embedded technologies. Nat’s ...
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