We live in a truly wonderful age for reasons we completely take for granted, like sewers and garbage service. Turn the clock back just a couple hundred years and your typical London home had a cesspit beneath the house that, when full, would then flow into a trough in the middle of the street and hopefully flow […]
One of the important aspects of doing a detox diet is getting the poisons all the way out of your system. In my past when I would do water fasts to clean out my system, there was no consideration for this need. Water fasting is a very traditional method of detoxification, but I now believe […]
Poisons, poisons everywhere. I have written many articles on the huge variety of poisons in our food, water, air, and living environments. We have considered diet changes, water purification, air cleaners, and a host of replacement products for the toxic ones sold at the stores to clean our houses and selves with. But the truth is, […]
Last week I was writing about how intimately our health is tied to the bacteria that live in our gut. I drew the picture that what we ate determined whether we had “good guy” bacteria supporting our health growing inside us or “bad guy” bacteria tearing down our health. The “good guys” like to eat soluble fibers […]
I came across an interesting bit of information the other day about gorillas. Sixty to seventy per cent of their diet is leaves they can’t digest themselves. They depend on the actions of healthy gut bacteria, and because of this they live on a high fat diet. Initially this sounds like nonsense – where did the […]
Since this article is coming out Thanksgiving weekend – a weekend commonly spent eating more than usual – a food article seemed appropriate. But lets turn this story around. Let’s consider what is eating us, rather than simply what we are eating. By now we have all heard about how there are ten times as […]
Starches are problematic for the majority of people, but they are still the major food source for those same people. This planet could not sustain its current population if we were to all turn Paleo and eat a diet based primarily on meat. While this may be a good health choice for some people, it […]
Do you like to crunch? I know for Ellen, it isn’t a full meal unless there is something crunchy with the meal. I am not talking about celery. Yes, it is crunchy and crunch lovers trying to be healthy try really hard to convince themselves that celery is meeting their crunch need. But deep down […]
A couple weeks ago my brother Daniel suggested I watch a Youtube video by a Dr Jason Fung, a kidney specialist from Canada. He had been treating diabetic patients for 20 years for kidney disease caused by diabetes when it dawned on him that none of his patients ever got better. He actually asked himself […]
I went to my favorite Asian market the other day because I ran out of fish sauce. I really like fish sauce for so many different dishes. While there I went down the mushroom isle (yes they have a whole section just for mushrooms) and decided that I really needed to try all their different […]