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Monthly Archives: June 2014
One Day at a Time
Quitting is a moment to moment effort. Eating foods that you are in the process of quitting is a decision you make in the moment. Deciding to eat a sugary dessert is a decision that needs to be made ahead … Continue reading
Preschool Foie Gras…
…As in paté. The main ingredient in Foie Gras is duck liver, and the liver must contain lots of liver-fat. In order to find a duck with a fatty liver, in France they force-feed corn to the ducks. In nature … Continue reading
A Bagel Is No Different Than A Bag Of Skittles To Your Body
People, when they find out that science has changed the consensus opinion about a topic always have the same reaction “There they go again, first it’s bad for you, then it’s good for you!” In the 1950s science concluded, mostly … Continue reading
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Tagged atkins, carbs, fat, saturated fats, science, sugar, time, unsaturated fats
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Why We Can’t Wait For Help
The tipping point is in the past for processed foods. When Joseph Kellog invented a way to turn corn meal into corn flakes for breakfast in 1906 there wasn’t too much wrong with breakfast cereal. A stroll down the breakfast … Continue reading
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Tagged fat, FDA, food additives, food science, health, Salt, sugar
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Meat and Plants
When you first begin to quit eating boxed, bagged or canned foods, the hardest thing to get your mind around is that you are not denying yourself anything that you really want. Your brain is hooked up to patterns that help … Continue reading
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Tagged grocery, habits, healthy, living healthy, saving money, shopping
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Habit, Addiction, What’s the Diff?
Originally posted on One Small Change at a Time:
I happen to think that breaking a sugar habit is best done one small step at time. Breaking this habit is just exactly the same as breaking any other habit, down…
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Habit, Addiction, What’s the Diff?
I happen to think that breaking a sugar habit is best done one small step at time. Breaking this habit is just exactly the same as breaking any other habit, down to the smallest detail. I found an article in … Continue reading
How Close to Patent Medicine
Way, way back in the day, there were people who would put an exotic ingredient into an elixir and make health claims for the new mixture. Using state of the art advertising and hucksterism, they sold these things as health … Continue reading
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Absolute Nutritionism
The idea that we now actually know what nutrients, minerals, sugars, fibers and proteins that are found naturally in our foods are the ‘important’ ones is a pretty exaggerated one. Food science has progressed remarkably, right along with the other biological … Continue reading
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