We are what we eat. It’s not just a cutesy catchphrase: What we put in our bodies affects our health and longevity. The Nutrition 2024 conference, hosted by the American Society for Nutrition, presented the latest research studies on food. Here’s what we learned. Add baby carrots to my shopping cart ASAP! 🥕 Snacking on […]
Tag: grains
Why you should eat more whole grains like quinoa, farro and oats
The fear of carbohydrates, and particularly grains, is still going strong, with many people believing that eating foods like bread, pasta and rice will lead to weight gain, high blood sugar levels and more. As a dietitian, I hear this almost daily. While most Americans meet or exceed their daily recommended carbohydrate intake, with 74% […]
Are Idaho’s famous potatoes vegetables or … grains?! Senators take a stand in food debate
Potatoes might be reclassified as a grain, but not if Idaho’s senators have their way. U.S. Sens. Jim Risch and Mike Crapo, along with a bipartisan group of 12 other senators, have called on the departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services to keep the potato classified as a vegetable. Their letter concerns the […]
Dandelions and shrubs to replace rubber, new grains and more: Are alternative crops realistic?
Katrina Cornish spends her days raising dandelions and desert shrubs. She harvests the stretchy rubber substances they produce and uses special machines to dip them into condoms, medical gloves and parts for trachea tubes. And she thinks those products could forever alter the landscape of agriculture in the United States. Cornish, a professor at Ohio […]
A spacecraft at Mars watched a dust storm lift tons of grains in a short time
New footage from Mars shows Red Planet dust reservoirs can send out huge clouds of material in a short time. The Hope mission from the United Arab Emirates captured Mars images before and after a dust storm that show “discernible alterations on the surface,” officials with the Hope mission wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on […]