Beth Spicer has 20+ years experience in medical and scientific research, working in private and government-funded research studies at institutions such as Duke University and Family Health International. She has published numerous health-related articles, a food counts guide, and is working on more. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill and The College of William & Mary. Beth currently resides in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina.
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 | Food, Glorious Food Food, Glorious Food is a comprehensive guide to nutrient values for more than 12,000 natural, packaged, and restaurant foods, specially formatted for PCs, ebook readers, smartphones, and tablets. Each entry is presented in the familiar nutrition label format, with resizable font and reflowable text, and is easily searchable with active links and multi-layered indexes. |
- Gone But Not Forgotten: The Sticky Stigma of Obesity
Research shows you can't shake the stigma of obesity, even when you drop the pounds. Continue reading - Do you have good fat or bad fat?
Does fat really mean unhealthy? A new study shows some obese people are strikingly free of all obesity-related illnesses. Continue reading - Who’s Your Daddy? Apparently, it’s NYC Mayor Bloomberg…
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Chief of the Food Police, wants to outlaw sugary drinks. Continue reading - When All Natural is Anything But – the Kashi Controversy
Research into Kashi's cereals finds that they are made with 100% GMO soy-not what most of us consider "all natural". Continue reading - Coffee Can Extend Your Life – Really!
In a New England Journal of Medicine study of 400,000 aging Americans, the NIH once again proved that coffee drinking is good for your heart, and a bunch of other organs, too. Continue reading - You Can Get There From Here
An examination of several so-called "appetite suppressant" drugs, with insight into how these products actually modify your body chemistry to cause significant, lasting weight loss. Continue reading - Through Thick and Thin
A research review of two major physiologic differences between "natural fatties" and "natural thinnies", and how those differences affect energy expenditure, causing the same number of input calories to result in variable amounts of fat deposition. Continue reading - The Real Bathroom Scales
A real-world study of how the body's energy expenditure variables respond to changes in intake...or, why your last diet didn't "take". Continue reading - The Calculus of Calorie Counting
A look at the "new math" behind the calorie equation, and why we can't fool our fat-o-stats with step-aerobics and Lean Cuisines. Continue reading - The Biggest Medical Myth of All Time
The greatest medical myth of all time is that obesity, or any degree of excessive body fatness, is the direct result of excessive food intake and/or insufficient exercise. What hard evidence exists to controvert this belief? Continue reading
