Prevention interviewed Dr. Dana Hunnes, a UCLA dietician and nutrition expert, on the differences between soy and almond milk.
“ 'Plant-based milks are a great alternative and ought to be considered as part of a healthy diet,' says Dana Hunnes, Ph.D, M.P.H., R.D., an assistant professor at UCLA and senior dietitian at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center."
CalMatters cited a report by researchers with the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's UCLA Center for Health Policy Research that found students at California's public universities and colleges face problems accessing federal and state food assistance programs, including California's state-run CalFresh program.
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Dr. Gang Li co-authored research that finds chronic stress and an unhealthy diet may work together to fuel the early development of pancreatic cancer. Along with serving as a professor of biostatistics, Dr. Li also serves with UCLA's Johnson Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the UCLA Health system.
The Washington Post referenced the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health's Dr. Dana Ellis Hunnes about eating spinach to reduce snacking.
"Spinach is chock full of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Also, the superfood is a solid source of fiber, which may keep people satisfied longer, and in turn, make between-meal cravings less likely, said Dana Ellis Hunnes."
Inaccurate labels and confusing packaging lead people with serious medical conditions to get ‘glutened,’ says public health scholar Emily Abel
In a new study titled "Randomized Comparative Effectiveness Trial of 2 Federally Recommended Strategies to Reduce Excess Body Fat in Overweight, Low-Income Patients: MyPlate.gov vs Calorie Counting," published in the Annals of Family Medicine, researchers determined that, for some groups, the MyPlate-based intervention may be a practical alternative to the more traditional calorie counting approach.
Sweeping changes designed to make the food more nutritious in a federal assistance program for low-income families reduced the risk for obesity for 4-year-olds who had been on the program since birth, according to new research.
The study of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, was conducted by researchers from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Tulane University and Los Angeles-based PHFE WIC, the nation’s largest local WIC agency and a program of Heluna Health.
Twenty-six percent of the United States’ total greenhouse gas emissions comes from food production and consumption. So what people choose to eat matters — to personal health and to the global climate.
A new UCLA study published in the journal Nutrients finds that diets centered on plants and unprocessed foods benefit the health of both people and the planet.
"Why do many Japanese supermarkets not accept food stamps? Food stamps, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or CalFresh in California, assist people with lower monthly incomes in purchasing food using government funds. 'The Japanese and Japanese American people who have EBT want to buy Japanese products,' said Setsuko Nakama, executive director of Little Tokyo Nutrition Services. EBT, short for Electronic Benefits Transfer, is the system that processes food stamps.
"New research...shows that dark chocolate contains cadmium and lead, two heavy metals that can lead to health problems. //Of the 28 dark chocolate bars researchers studied, they found these two heavy metals in all of them. The amount of cadmium considered safe by health experts for is 4.1 ug/day and for lead it’s 0.5 ug/day. Scientists found that for 23 of the dark chocolate bars, consuming one ounce exceeded these daily amounts. And 5 of the bars contained higher levels for both heavy metals.