While moderation is still recommended, some candy manufacturers are trying to do the right thing by making gluten-free choices, using eco-friendly ingredients and insisting on higher quality ingredients.read more

“We now know that the variation in fats makes it difficult to generalize about their health effects and risks. Individual life stage, lifestyle, and genetics must be considered before assigning a health-promoting or health-risk label on a sub-class or class of nutrients,” says Pressman. read more

When something is as widely used as palm oil, you want to make sure it’s sustainably produced! And palm oil is everywhere! It’s found in everything from chocolate and ice cream to bread and microwave popcorn. Here are 10 reasons why most of the palm oil used in the United States is sourced from Malaysia and nowhere else.read more

The Malaysian Palm Oil Wildlife Conservation Fund worked with the wildlife department to establish this organization which supports conservation efforts along with rescuing endangered wildlife. Their highly trained rangers have completed more than 100 rescue or translocation operations. read more

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Because of Malaysia’s equatorial climate, it can grow oil palm. This fertile tree produces abundant supplies of nutritious fruits year-round. Because of this high yield, it produces significantly more oil than annual crops, such as corn, soybean and canola. A single acre of oil palm produces 11 times more oil than soybeans, and 10 times more than sunflower.read more

Most of Malaysia’s orangutans live on the island’s protected forests. That’s not a challenge as an astonishing 60 percent of Sabah is under forest cover. This provides ample natural habitat for the orangutans to thrive. Palm oil is also legally cultivated in these states, but only on land zoned for agriculture. Many of today’s oil palm plantations once farmed rubber or coconut, but were converted to efficient and sustainable oil palm.read more

Palm oil is the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet! But here in the U.S., most of us are just learning to appreciate palm oil for its health, culinary and environmental benefits.read more

While moderation is still recommended, some candy manufacturers are trying to do the right thing by making gluten-free choices, using eco-friendly ingredients and insisting on higher quality ingredients.read more

Journalist Shirin Danielpour Yadegar created LA Mom Magazine, an online community, to  empower moms in the decisions they make for their families, including their health. She posts articles by various experts on issues moms face daily. Those include this article by Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS, explaining details about the published study that found that high carbs, not dietary fat, are associated with an increase in heart disease risk factors.read more

Women’s World magazine drew readers’ attention to the published study in Scientific Reports that found eating fat had little to no impact on heart health. Instead, a high-carb diet was associated with increased risk factors for cardiovascular diseaseread more

At the height of the holiday season, Sacramento TV audiences learned a good lesson: It’s easier to resist all the sugary stuff if you’re not as hungry for it. That advice came from Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS, who appeared on local CW and Fox TV affiliates to give people easy tips for healthier holiday eating. “I’m a big believer in not relying on willpower,” he said. Eating more healthy fats, such as Malaysian certified sustainable palm oil, will help stabilize blood sugar levels which reduces cravings. “Palm oil is to the rest of the world what olive oil is to the Mediterranean.”read more

Pharmacist turned holistic food and healthy living expert Lisa Leslie-Williams recently introduced her readers to the functional cooking concept. “That simply means improving the nutrition of recipes without changing the taste or time it takes to prepare them,” she wrote in her blog, The Domestic Life Stylist. She encouraged her readers to start cooking with Malaysian certified sustainable palm oil. “Studies have shown it to be heart-healthy, even though it’s 50% saturated fats. After doing my own research, I’m using Malaysian certified sustainable palm oil because of that country’s strong environmental commitment.”read more

On oil palm plantations, some trees are top producers and others under-perform. But because the trees mature slowly, growers typically can’t tell the difference until three to four years after planting. Once mature, oil palm trees produce fruit for 20 to 30 years.read more

Popular mommy blogger and podcaster Carolina King told a Nashville TV audience that we need fats such as palm oil in our diets to stay healthy. Appearing on CBS’s Talk of the Town, King also explained that she only uses Malaysian certified sustainable palm oil because its production doesn’t harm the environment.read more

Readers of the Alternative Medicine discovered why they might want to avoid a carb-heavy diet this season and put some fats on their holiday menu. After giving highlights of the Malaysian diet and population study, the article quoted Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., CNS, who put palm oil on his “nice list.”read more