I mentioned in my last letter that my body does not like sugar even though my taste buds do. What does that mean? Why wouldn’t my body like sugar… well let’s go from the outside in. The first thing we think of is eating sugar and how good it tastes…yum. But then what? Before that […]
I love sugar, but sugar does not love me. Sweet is the first taste we experience from our mother’s milk. We are hardwired to seek out the sweet taste. In nature, sweet taste is almost a guarantee that the food we are about to eat is safe. But we are not in nature anymore. Sweet is not […]
Vegetarianism has been around for a long time. In fact you could say that the creation of modern civilization began as a shift away from the hunter-gatherer meat-eating lifestyle to the growing plants for food (agrarian) lifestyle. On the other hand, the development of the large human brain is the direct result several million years […]
Homegrown, doesn’t that sound wholesome and full of goodness? I have been an advocate of making use of the local farmer’s markets for many years. Getting your food from the actual farmers who grow it brings you into the whole cycle of life on a hands-on level. Well let’s take that up a notch! How about […]
Spring has sprung. My daffodils have come and gone already. Green stuff is popping up everywhere. If you were a hunter-gatherer, you would be eating those green things. Throughout most of human history, this time of year meant near starvation. The only things to eat were the new young shoots and any game you might […]
Last issue I talked about Alzheimer’s as fundamentally a brain inflammation disease – the best remedy for which is to not get brain inflammation in the first place. Eating only fresh, non-toxic foods, avoiding poisons, and moving most of the day will do this for you. But what do you do if it is already too […]
Happy New Year! 2010 is upon us. A new chance to start fresh with our lives. I hope your holidays were excellent; mine were. I still have one party left to attend. In another week my family is gathering to celebrate my mother’s 80th birthday – Congratulations mom. Where do the years go? Most likely […]
As we move into winter our days are getting shorter. Sunlight, the basic source of the energy for life on this planet, decreases more and more daily. We feel this loss of life right down to our bones (as our vitamin D production decreases and melatonin hormone increases.) Everywhere life is finishing its cycle and […]
Do you ever have food cravings…urges for a particular food that makes you feel better even when you are full? Have you experienced eating a favorite food only to end up hungrier than before you ate it? Do you have any foods that you really can’t imagine going days or weeks without? If you answer […]
What if I told you about a place I read about recently where a particular minority population is forced by law to work daily in labor camps without pay. They bus them in each morning and bus them out at the end of the day. They are forced to work crowded into small rooms with […]