Hello. My name is Charles Stuart Platkin, I’m the founder of DietDetective.com, I  have a syndicated column that’s in more than 165 daily papers, I’ve also written 5 books on health and behavior. As far as academic background: I received my undergraduate degree from Cornell University, a Juris Doctorate from Fordham University, and a Masters in Public Health from Florida International University. I’m also a certified personal trainer and I’m currently completing my Ph.D. in Public Health. Ok. A few points, just so we’re clear. This blog will NOT be investigative stories, or well written, heavily edited articles. It will be from my mind, to keyboard, to computer. There WILL be typos, grammatical errors, and run on sentences. But that’s fine, because you’ll get the point.
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by Charles Stuart Platkin
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
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 Have you seen the new Pizza Hut advertisements – about the Tuscani Pastas? I wondered what they cost calorically. It’s actually nice that Pizza Hut post their nutritional information. They serve these pastas in trays, and it supposedly servers 4 people. Each ¼ portion for the Chicken Alfredo is 620 calories, 32g fat, 56g carbs, 1300mg sodium. For the Meaty Marinara, it’s 510 calories, 24g fat, 48g carbs, 1310mg sodium. It’s funny b/c the Pasta Bakes Marinara w/ Meatballs, which is NOT served family style, is double the supposed serving size of the Tuscani pasta, and is 1010 calories, 46g fat, 3550mg sodium, 103g carbs… I guess Pizza Hut believes that you will eat less if you get your food family style (the way the Tuscani Pastas are served)? Really?
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by Charles Stuart Platkin
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
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Did you even notice that alcohol has no nutritional information? I've noticed. Today, a coalition of public interest groups called for the federal government to end 30 years of "deliberations and fact finding" by launching a ad campaign and lobbying effort to require standardized labeling information on beer, wine and distilled spirits products. What do you think?
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by Charles Stuart Platkin
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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
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Many people take antioxidants in the belief that they will prolong their life expectancy. However, data from 67 randomised trials that involved just under a quarter of a million people failed to support this idea, a Cochrane Systematic Review has discovered.
“We could find no evidence to support taking antioxidant supplements to reduce the risk of dying earlier in healthy people or patients with various diseases,” says Goran Bjelakovic, visiting researcher, who performed the systematic review at the Copenhagen Trial Unit at the Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark. |
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by Charles Stuart Platkin
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Tuesday, 15 April 2008 |
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You are what you eat, as the old saying goes. Maybe so, but increasingly researchers are finding that you are also what your mother ate – maternal nutrition has profound consequences on the health of offspring. It is well known that smaller babies are more likely to suffer from heart disease, stroke, hypertension and diabetes. More recently, poor nutrition around the time of fertilization and egg implantation have also been shown to be detrimental in adult life.
Now Adam Watkins and colleagues, writing in The Journal of Physiology, have shown that, even before conception, maternal diet is vital to the health of the next generation. Even as the egg first leaves the ovary and begins to mature, it is subject to nutritional deficiencies in the mother that can profoundly affect its viability. |
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by Charles Stuart Platkin
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Tuesday, 15 April 2008 |
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I must say when I read this I was truly disappointed; however, it does make some sense. Is adding these algae organic? If not, it certainly shouldn’t be added to these products. Also, The Cornucopia Institute has a point --- is there really research that says this supplementation works? Last week or so I asked Marian L. Neuhouser, PhD RD a researcher from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and here is what she said:
“I'm well aware of the plethora of food products that are now purported to contain EPA and DHA. I think this may be one of those situations where the cart is well before the horse. It is quite clear that EPA and DHA are very important to human nutrition (it is likely that a DRI/RDA will be advised in the not too distant future). However, what is not clear and for which there is insufficient evidence is whether alternate sources of EPA/DHA can provide the same health benefits as sources directly from from cold water, oily fish. Those are the studies that need to be done before products and additives are marketed to consumers. I was able to find a few articles in biochemistry journals documenting the presence of EPA and DHA in marine algae. However, I know of no studies where fish sources and algae sources were compared for efficacy in a double-blind placebo controlled trial (even in animals). Such evidence would support algae sources as a reasonable substitute for fish sources. Until then, I think one can only state that despite the fact that marine algae is being added to numerous food products as a means to supplement the foods with EPA/DHA (since juices and other foods do not naturally contain these fatty acids), there is insufficient evidence to conclude that consuming foods with these supplements is a substitute to consuming dark, oily fish and that the health benefits will be comparable.”
(Source: The Cornucopia Institute) The Cornucopia Institute has filed a legal complaint with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) demanding that the agency enforce the organic regulations prohibiting toxic solvents from being used in the production of organic food. Cornucopia, a nonprofit food and farm policy research group, found that baby formula and other food manufacturers are using hexane-extracted omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids (DHA/ARA) derived from algae and soil fungus. |
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