The year was 1945 and the United States Food and Nutrition Board, a part of the National Academy of Sciences, was a young five years old. And, they wrote a recommendation for the daily intake of 2 liters (roughly 10.5 cups) of water. And, henceforth the myth of drinking eight glasses of water per day was born. At least, as …
Your Guide to Healthy Cooking Oils: What You Need to Know
We hear a lot about fat in the news. How much fat we should eat? How to shed pounds of fat with the latest “diet”? One of the topics that comes up is, how healthy cooking oils are in our nutrition? To start, it’s important to understand that there are two types of fat that are often conflated: dietary fat …