Diet & Nutrition

USDA’s Online Tool to Track Your Diet, Weight, and Exercise  Facebook isn’t the only online phenomenon to reach more than one million users in less than a year of launching. The USDA’s SuperTracker, which launched only eleven months ago, is an interactive, online tool that currently helps 1.5 million consumers …

Women with gestational diabetes (GDM) can greatly reduce the risk of progressing to diabetes with diet, but which diet?…

A new analysis from Duke University found that those on a low carb diet lost 18 pounds….

SparkPeople iOS/Free Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zbSKX22tuA Upon opening, this application prompts the user to enter personal information e.g. date of birth, gender, weight, and weight loss goals.

Arawella Corporation iOS/Free Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfcOlP-Hn6U With this app, users can create their own diets and plans for physical activity. After creating a diet profile, users can set their own goals for weight loss or maintaining weight.

MyFitnessPal.com iOS and Android   The iPad version has a well-designed and pleasing interface. Food intake can be recorded manually or via barcode.

Dr. Stanton gives us his perspective on low-protein diets with a brief overview of the research and thinking behind these types of diets for patients with kidney disease, and highlights some of the ongoing questions and concerns in this area of study. He also discusses how many of the studies …

Dr. Robert Stanton explains how all the studies on low/high protein diets can confuse physicians and that there are parallels between the ongoing debates about the “correct levels” of A1c and albumin level in urine as researchers constantly add to the level of knowledge. He also points out that the type …

Are low-carb strategies OK for the kidneys of obese individuals without kidney disease?…

Carbohydrate Cheat Sheet The carb count for the top 50 foods we eat: a simple one page pdf form that your patients can keep with them. Just follow this link to download the Carbohydrate Cheat Sheet.