The story of soy is long and interesting. Archaeological records show that soybeans have been cultivated for over 3,000 years. Cultivation began primarily as a way to improve soil as soy fixates nitrogen in the soil, thus acting as a sort of nitrogen fertilizer. The soy plants were also used as fodder for animals; however, […]
For the last 100 years the basic chant of nutrition science has been the same everywhere – “a calorie is a calorie.” The idea is that all foods break down into little chemicals that provide fuel for our cells. The belief was that it didn’t matter what the food started out as, because by the […]
I was researching the impact of sugar on the body when I came across an article that blew me away. It was a study published in the Endocrine Society journal on the impact of sugar on male testosterone levels. Currently testosterone levels are typically tested in the morning when levels are the highest with a […]