Tag: Calories
What’s the difference between sugar, other natural sweeteners and artificial sweeteners?...
Kristine Nolin, University of Richmond
A quick walk down the drink aisle of any corner store reveals the incredible ingenuity of food scientists in search...
A taste for sweet – an anthropologist explains the evolutionary origins...
Stephen Wooding, University of California, Merced
The sweetness of sugar is one of life’s great pleasures. People’s love for sweet is so visceral, food...
Not all calories are equal – a dietitian explains the different...
Terezie Tolar-Peterson, Mississippi State University
A calorie is a calorie is a calorie, at least from a thermodynamic standpoint....
Sea otters demonstrate that there is more to muscle than just...
Traver Wright, Texas A&M University; Melinda Sheffield-Moore, Texas A&M University, and Randall Davis, Texas A&M University
Life in the...
Decades of hype turned protein into a superfood – and spawned...
Hannah Cutting-Jones, University of Oregon
Do you ever blend up a protein smoothie for breakfast, or grab a protein...
Tour de France: How many calories will the winner burn?
John Eric Goff, University of Lynchburg
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Imagine you begin pedaling from the start of Stage...
Whether slow or fast, here’s how your metabolism influences how many...
Terezie Tolar-Peterson, Mississippi State University
It’s a common dieter’s lament: “Ugh, my metabolism is so slow, I’m never going to lose any weight.”
When people talk...
Why we’re so bad at counting the calories we eat, drink...
Kaitlin Woolley, Cornell University and Peggy Liu, University of Pittsburgh
People often eat more than usual around the holidays – and this year more than...
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Mormonism’s newest apostles reflect growing global reach
Matthew Bowman, Henderson State University
At its annual General Conference held from March 31 to April 1, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
