Question – Are the fruits and vegetables of today as nutritious as they were 30 or 40 years ago? Actually, they are slightly better due to better growing conditions and better understanding of the benefits and health factors. Freshly picked and prepared vegetables have more vitamins in active form than the ones from the store. [...]
Question – Is wheat bread really better than white bread if both are made with enriched white flour? Whole wheat bread – YES! By law, all cereal grain based products has to be enriched with Vitamins – B1, B2, Niacin, Folic Acid and mineral-supplement-IRON (Ferrous Sulfate) since the depression years (when the law was passed [...]
Question – Is butter or margarine better for you? Butter is better, but it does not mean you can eat all you want. Moderation is essential. Margarine is usually made from hydrogenated (trans fat) vegetable oils to make them semi-solid like butter. Margarine in the market now is made from naturally solid-vegetable fats (palm oil [...]
Question – Are there food combinations that can actually help people lose weight, or is it only based on portion control? It is BOTH, i.e., portion control as well as combinations. Remember what happened to ATKINS weight loss program of eliminating CARBS! Per our current knowledge in human nutrition our body functions well when the [...]
Question – What benefit will it do us for fast food restaurants to switch oil types, and will it change the way our food tastes? TASTE change in foods made from ‘trans-fat’ FREE oils is NOT noticeable/ perceivable (unless you are a person trained in Sensory Analysis). Triglycerides and LDL levels in blood are linked [...]
Question – What is the danger of high fructose syrup? Fructose is almost TWICE as sweet as Sugar. Since the invention of industrial manufacturing of FRUCTOSE (Cheap sweetener compared to Cane or Beet Sugar) the Corn Food Industry started using it in all SWEETENED foods. It is significantly cheaper than Sugar. It also becomes addictive [...]
Question – Why do I feel like I want to fall asleep after eating pasta and drinking soda? This is very common for most (animals as well as people). The reason is that the systems management focuses its resources (blood flow that carries enzymes and necessary support units) to process the input (food). So the [...]
Hello, and welcome to my new blog, The Food Doctor. My name is Danny Chawan; some people call me the “food doctor” because of my background in food sciences. You can read a little more about me on my About page or you can check out my business website, Srim Enterprises. What will you find [...]
