When it comes to maintaining a healthy diet, vegetables often steal the spotlight, while fruit sometimes gets a bad rap due to its higher sugar content. This misconception has left many people wondering if they should be cautious about consuming fruit. This blog post debunks common myths about fruit, shedding light on the truth behind its nutritional value.

Nutrition is more than fuel for the body. It is key to preventing or even reversing many of the leading chronic diseases that kill 41 million people each year. But with so much conflicting information, it is hard to know what to eat. This blog post helps you to sort facts from fiction. You will learn how to use evidence-based practice to transform your eating habits and improve your health.

Most nutrition studies rely on dietary assessment methods such as food frequency questionnaires (FFQs), 24-hour recalls, and food diaries. All these methods depend on people reporting what they eat. But obtaining accurate data is not easy. 

No one can read all the books, articles, and other printed material related to a given area of nutrition science. You need to be selective. Not everything written about your questions is relevant to you. But how do you get started? Take a look at our six practical tips on how to plan your search into the scientific literature on nutrition studies.

The meal possibilities for hummus are endless. It can be served as a dip, spread or with salad. Any of the recipes here (except the sweet hummus) are a great addition to a Budda bowl. For a snack or light lunch, serve any of the hummus recipes with toasted wholewheat pita bread slices and raw sliced veggies for dipping.

October 1st is World Coffee Day, so we thought that it’s worthwhile taking a look at the science behind this popular beverage. Luckily for us, a review article was published in 2020 in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine which can help us answer the big question: Is coffee healthy or harmful? Well, coffee and its components influence different parts of the body. Let’s start by looking at what the paper has to say about the brain.

Upon consulting my good old friend – the internet – about that particular question, I found out that chocolate has near-miraculous properties – even enhancing one’s maths skills (2). I really wish I’d known about this back in school. Are these magical medical properties too good to be true or actually based on scientific evidence, you’re asking? Now, that’s a great question. Let’s find out!

2022 was another successful year in the history of PAN International, a global NGO with a bold vision to change the way the world eats. This infographic is a celebration of some of the key milestones and highlights achieved throughout the year on our mission to reduce diet-related diseases, improve lives and rethink health.

We’re amazed at just how quickly time flies. 2021 was another successful year in the history of PAN International and it was a great one! This infographic is a celebration of the key milestones and highlights that our international team achieved throughout the year and around the world.

What a year! We’ve come so far as an organization in 2020 so we made this infographic to look back on what PAN International has achieved despite how the world has changed around us.