As we know here at IFIC, food trends come and go all the time. One day we’re talking about the pegan diet or alkaline water, the next…
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Diet
Snacking Profiles: Which One Are You?
As the nature and pace of life evolves, so do our eating habits. Snacking is now more commonplace than ever before. Our 2019 Food and Health Survey…
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A New Health Option for the New Year: The Non-Diet Approach
At the start of a new year, it often seems that everywhere you look, someone is trying a new diet. But whether we resolve to change our…
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Food Trends to Watch in 2020
Intuitive Eating and the “Un-Diet”; Sustainability (Finally!) Takes Shape; New Food Tech Gathers Momentum (Washington, D.C.)—As a new year and new decade offer opportunities to take stock of where we’ve come and…
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Struggling With Late-Night Snacking? Read This.
Late-night snacking has a bad reputation because it’s often associated with less healthy foods, weight gain or a lack of willpower. But many people report engaging in…
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Can Calorie-Dense Foods Also Be Healthy?
For so long, we’ve been taught that high-calorie means bad. But what if we told you that way of thinking was outdated, and more importantly, wrong? A…
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What is the Flexitarian Diet?
Highlights The flexitarian diet can be generally defined as a semi-vegetarian diet with moderate intake levels of animal products. The principles of the flexitarian diet are aligned…
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What is Intermittent Fasting?
Intermittent fasting has fast become a diet trend worth noting. For the past two years, the IFIC Foundation’s Food and Health Survey has found that intermittent fasting…
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What is the Paleo Diet?
Highlights The Paleo diet attempts to model the foods that may have been commonly eaten by humans during the Paleolithic era—meat, fish, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Some research has demonstrated a beneficial effect on body weight and…
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