Nutrition in the News
So many food fads come and go. In the nutrition class I teach, it is interesting to hear about the latest food fad trends. A current trend is alternative milk. For some reason people are shunning real milk for fake milk. Another faux milk is coming to a store or coffee shop near you. Some food fads are really unhealthy fads like coconut oil. Almost every week I hear someone talking about adding coconut oil to their diet. Thankfully, this unhealthy fad seems to be coming to an end. 1. Oat milk – yes, you read this correctly, the newest alternative to real milk is made from oats. Time magazine’s article, The dairy aisle’s next new thing , describes this faux milk and why it is being used as yet another replacement for real milk. Apparently, almond milk was the number one faux milk but has fallen from grace recently. Why? According to Time, almond milk was linked to the drought in Cali...