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 […]
Starchy foods have been a mainstay of the human diet for thousands of years. For many people starchy foods provide their primary source of affordable calories each day. While starches are a bad idea for a sizable portion of the population, they are very usable for the larger percentage of folks. Remember, we are all […]
Doughnuts joyfully embrace their role as one of the most toxic fresh foods on the planet. Nobody in his or her right mind even pretends that eating a doughnut is good for you on any level. Doughnuts are basically bleached white flour, sugar, and rancid oil – yum. Why oh why do they taste […]
Food meets a lot of needs. Our thinking brain tells us that we need food for nutrition – to give us energy and the building blocks to build and repair tissues. While this is completely true, it has very little to do with why most people eat food. If it did we would only eat […]
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 […]
50,000 years ago humans lived in a state of dietary insecurity. Agriculture had not been developed yet so food supply was determined by whatever was available with each season. For humans living in Europe and north Asia winter was a time of almost no food at all. To survive you had to live off of […]
Hi , As consumers we look to medical “experts” to advise us as to how to stay healthy. Unfortunately becoming an expert is not based on wisdom or knowledge, but on promoting a strong opinion and getting others to believe you. Strong opinions do not come from truth or wisdom, but from ignorance. Opinions are […]
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 […]
One of my fondest memories of when I was growing up was going wild blackberry picking late in the summer in the big berry patches behind our house. We would take a long piece of lumber and drop it into the patch and then carefully walk out onto the lumber to reach the really good […]
Sugar season is rapidly descending upon us. It begins with the first bag of Halloween candy we buy and ends with the solemn promises of turning over a new leaf New Years Day. Some new evidence and resources may help with how we handle this years sugar rush. For almost 30 years now […]