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You Really Are What You Eat
You Really Are What You Eat: Can Food Actually Have an Impact on Health and Disease? I get a lot of questions from patients about food. There’s a lot of interest lately in using food to treat disease. Now, we know that “eating right” is “healthier” in that too much of anything can…
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Food For Thought: The Role of Food in Irritable Bowel Symptoms “Food For Thought” is a recurring column on bellyblog.ca, where we will share a well-curated collection of high quality, thought-provoking pieces, usually about food, diet, nutrition, and the gut. Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or IBS, is a complex syndrome characterized by abdominal pain…
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Toward the end of the Second World War, researchers at the University of Minnesota began a legendary experiment on the psychology and physiology of human starvation — and, thus, on hunger.
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Do you really need 8 glasses of water per day? If there is one health myth that will not die, it is this: You should drink eight glasses of water a day. It’s just not true. There is no science behind it.
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Gluten Sensitivity • 2 thought-provoking pieces on the issue, the second is authored by our resident celiac disease expert, Dr Rupa Mukherjee
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