In 2002, The New York Times Sunday Magazine cover featured a huge T-bone steak with the headline, “What if It’s All Been a Big Fat Lie?” The story wasn’t really about steak, it was about carbs, and this story led the world down the sad road of fear of carbohydrates.…
The Mediterranean Diet food traditions come from the eastern, western, northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. While the healthy eating pattern is similar, the ingredients, spices and dishes vary from country to country, and region to region. We celebrate each and every…
Dr. Frank Hu is chair of the Department of Nutrition, Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He serves as co-director of the Program in Obesity…
Rosie Schwartz Takes a Stroll Down Mediterranean Memory Lane I’ve been given one of the toughest tasks I can recall. For the celebration of Mediterranean Diet Month, I was asked to share my favorite Mediterranean inspired memory. My favorite I can say that it was on one of Oldways…
The right place is Oldways and the right stuff is the wide variety of consumer-friendly resources Oldways has created to help everyone understand and embrace the Mediterranean Diet. We’ve been the nations leading experts on the Med Diet since 1993, when we created the Mediterranean Diet…
We love it when folks call or email Oldways with questions about food and nutrition! Having the opportunity to chat with people and share our nutrition knowledge is so rewarding. So, as we continue our month-long Mediterranean Diet Celebration, we thought it was the perfect opportunity to look…
Earlier this year I had the great pleasure of attending an event at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, in Californias Napa Valley. It was the first time Id been to Greystone, and it lived up to all the hype I’d heard over the years. The event was the annual scientific and…
Red wines arent the only things that can age gracefully. New research in the British Medical Journal suggests that the Mediterranean Diet is associated with healthy aging, right down to our DNA! To determine the relationship between DNA and diet, Harvard researchers analyzed food intake and…
Educated at Oxford University, David is currently a professor in both the Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, a staff physician in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and the Director of the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor…
Good news for everyone who ate a bowl of oatmeal or a few pieces of whole wheat toast for breakfast this morning: you may be on your way to a longer life. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health have just published the results of a major study linking higher whole grain intake with…
