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Newer Than New

April 24, 2014 by joshua iufer

Ahh a clean slate, a blank page, an open frame of mind. Sometimes change is just what you need to spice things up a little. This redesign has been in the process for quite a while, but it took time and planning to figure out how it could all click together. Let’s take a minute to get situated. Top Left you’ll find much of what you’re used to, About Me, All Posts, and that dashing Logo heading it up. Top Right on […]

Categories: TECHNOLOGY • Tags: Design, Gridspace, Health, Nutrition

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Brave Nutrient World

September 24, 2013 by joshua iufer

Admit it or not, our lives are increasingly run by algorithms. Little mathematical computer programs choose what we see, how we see it, and when we see it. I took a short course in Anthropology in college, lot’s of assumptions, ample amounts of political correctness. What stayed with me however, was this concept of ethnocentrism. Put simply, it states that you and I, are in no place to judge those from different backgrounds. We were raised with different biases, effectively […]

Categories: TECHNOLOGY • Tags: Algorithm, Ethercentric, Filter, Health, Internet, Nutrition, Paleo

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The Dark Side of Doctors

September 18, 2013 by joshua iufer

Growing up, a quarter of the kids I knew had visions of becoming famously wealthy doctors. A noble profession in and of itself. Helping people, saving lives, good pay. A childs logic has little to argue against such a career. I myself had grand delusions of being a doctor, or surgeon, or something along those respected lines. At least, until I started working in healthcare. I’ll paraphrase this by stating I am not a doctor. As much as dietitians picture […]

Categories: DIETETICS • Tags: Doctor, Health, HEALTHCARE, MD, Medicine

True Trends Don’t Lie

September 13, 2013 by joshua iufer

One of my favorite past-times as a nutrition professional is to head over to google trends and take a peek at where the world is headed. Below are a few of the key words I’ve touched on throughout my writing so far, see if you can spot some of the trends, some should make you laugh, others will make you cry. Good news for Dietitians, we’re on the up and up as far as worldwide recognition goes. It hasn’t been […]

Categories: TECHNOLOGY • Tags: Diet, Google, Health, New Years, Nutrition, Trends

Einsteins Pudding Experiment

September 10, 2013 by joshua iufer

We all know you’re supposed to exercise and eat a balanced diet, but if you only had the willpower to do one, what would be better for your body? I friend of mine posed this question recently, and I’m not afraid to admit I didn’t really know the answer. That’s not a bad thing, actually quite the opposite. The moments you feel lost, are the moments you know you’re about to learn something. So I turned to the greatest minds […]

Categories: NUTRITION • Tags: Exercise, Food, Health, Nutrition, Wellness

Guts, Germs, and Genes.

August 30, 2013 by joshua iufer

I want you to pick someone out of a crowd. Don’t be shy, anyone will do. Now, I want you to take a microscope and zoom in, WAY in. Getting closer? You’re miles away. Keep zooming, down, down, until you’re at the size of single human blood cell, approximately 10,000x magnification of the normal human eye. Now multiply that magnification by two. What you see at this level seems infinitesimally small compared to the gargantuan stature of people. Yet, these […]

Categories: NUTRITION • Tags: Bacteria, Flora, genetics, Gut, Health, Probiotics, Science

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Sleep It Off

August 19, 2013 by joshua iufer

For regular readers, you may remember the set of posts about sleep. There was Counting Sleep for Sheep, a detailed look at the give and take of energy regulating hormones and there was Sleep: The American Dream, a peek at the typical havoc our diets play on circadian rhythms. The beauty of sleep is, it never fails to offer new secrets. In this case, that secret is that many of us are horribly sleep deprived. Sorry for the bad news. […]

Categories: NUTRITION • Tags: Fat, Health, Insomnia, Science, Sleep, Sleep Deprived

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BPA, King Killer?

August 15, 2013 by joshua iufer

Raise your hand if you haven’t heard someone rant about BPA. There’s probably 1-2 of you, if even. And why not? With rising rates of obesity and fertility issues in America, plastics seem to me to be one of the central focuses for consumer health groups. Words like perfluorinated compounds, xenoestrogens, and Bisphenol-A have pretty much become household names. Somehow in that tangle, BPA became the king to demonize. For those that don’t know , BPA is an estrogen-like compound […]

Categories: NUTRITION • Tags: BPA, Endocrine Disruptor, Fertility, Health, Nutrition, Plastics

Patients Remorse

August 2, 2013 by joshua iufer

What is a life worth living? We’ve heard the term before, in print and aloud. Marketed to us as the “new American Dream”, shoved down our unsuspecting throats. I get it, it makes sense, a life worth living is one that is purposeful. So why do so few find purpose? One of the things that’ll always attract me towards healthcare, towards serving both the salt and scum of the Earth equally, is the introspection it brings . As I’ve started […]

Categories: DIETETICS • Tags: Health, Inspirational, Nutrition, Quotes, Retirement, Wisdom

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Nutrition, the Final Frontier.

July 16, 2013 by joshua iufer

With the recent decline in U.S. space flight, it felt only fitting to consider what challenges might face future endeavors. Space is a curious thing. It runs counter to our reason, opposite our biology. As much as we try, we’ll never truly adapt to space. We can only survive it. That distinction may not seem like much, but it carries serious implications. Adapting implies our capability of doing well, in other words succeeding in such a way that we hardly notice […]

Categories: TECHNOLOGY • Tags: Astronaut, Health, Mars, Medicine, Nutrition, Space

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Time vs. Tan Dilemma

May 31, 2013 by joshua iufer

At this point we’ve seen Vitamin D from the Simple and the Philosophical perspective, but I’m guessing you don’t have much take away. I think there’s more to teaching than just the facts. Information needs to be integrated not compartmentalized. Hence why I’ve taken you from the vastness of space to the atomic level of DNA. In other words, learn the process not the product. There’s just one problem. The Time vs Tan dilemma. The very thing we need to […]

Categories: NUTRITION • Tags: Health, Nutrition, Sunblock, UV Radiation, Vitamin D

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Nutrition By Numbers

May 23, 2013 by joshua iufer

If I take an apple and demolish it to a million pieces, would I still have an apple? The worlds greatest philosophers have long studied such questions. Is a thing worth more than the sum of its parts? Or for example, can you take the vitamins and minerals in an apple, inject them in a loaf of bread, and create a healthier piece of bread. It should come as no surprise that the fields of food science and nutrition are […]

Categories: NUTRITION • Tags: Health, Junk Food, Nutrition, Philosophy

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