Drug recalls – reading between the lines
Most of the time, taking a drug to get healthy is like taking out a loan to get rich. It’s time to ask yourself ‘Do drugs produce health, or do they manipulate physiology to appear as health?’
Strawberry Popsicles
Who doesn’t like strawberries? Who doesn’t like popsicles? As always, we want our ‘treats & sweets’ to be healthy, right? This from Elizabeth, an amazing yogi, gardener and otherwise good-for-the-planet soul.
Fat is good
Don’t believe everything you read or hear about fat … or cholesterol. Without good fat, you’ll end up sick, fat and … very unhealthy. Built on bad science from the 1950’s, fat in general, and saturated fat in particular has gotten a false with causing health problems.
Deadly Artificial Sweeteners
The scientific journals are filled with reports of neurological issues from eating aspartame and sucralose ‘… participants had more irritable mood, exhibited more depression, and performed worse on spatial orientation tests.’ [Neurobehavioral Effects of Aspartame Consumption, Res Nurs Health. 2014 Jun; 37(3): 185–193.]
The Shrinking Brain – size does matter
Some describe the increasing Alzheimer’s in the population as a ‘health meteor’ that’s going to strike the elderly populations of modern countries around 2025. The good news is that great information is surfacing about how to avoid Alzheimer’s disease.
Why you shouldn’t suppress symptoms when you are sick
Epsum factorial non deposit quid pro quo hic escorol. Olypian quarrels et gorilla congolium sic ad nauseum. Souvlaki ignitus carborundum e pluribus unum.
Why Potatoes and Legumes Are ‘Bad’ For Us
There are many foods that have crept into the human diet in recent times (post-agriculture period) that contain what are termed ‘anti-nutrients’. In essence, an anti-nutrient is a compound naturally found in certain plants, most often the seed portion, that enable the plant to be resistant to predators (microbes, fungi, bugs, birds, etc.). The most common…
Understanding the Cause of Obesity
The current Western diet, characterized by foods that are highly processed, deficient in nutrient quality, and high in energy density, has Americans fatter and sicker than ever before
Intermittent Fasting
Your body was not designed to have a constant food supply at arm’s reach. The ready supply of calorie-dense foods and its resulting consequence (a generally sedentary lifestyle) has led to an over-fed and under-active, over-weight and under-muscled population that is riddled with sickness and disease.
Saturated fats and the Fat Hypothesis
Fats from animal and vegetable sources provide a concentrated source of energy in the diet; they also provide the building blocks for cell membranes and a variety of hormones and hormone-like substances – fats are critical essential nutritional elements.