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Category Archives: Health
Artificial Ingredients Kill Pets
According to this article on Salon.com, there are things you can eat, in normal doses that you should make sure that your pets don’t get into. One thing that will cause problems is related to the topics we discuss here in … Continue reading
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Tagged animal trials, artificial ingredients, artificial sweetener, food science, human trials, xylitol
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Mardi GRAS
“Safe” is one of those words. It means different things in different contexts. You are driving down the interstate highway at seventy-five miles per hour. You feel safe, even though you are doing one of the most dangerous things, statistically, … Continue reading
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Tagged FDA, Food Safety, Generally Recognized as Safe, GRAS, human trials, poison control, USDA
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Be Your Strength
You are emotionally attached to food. We all are. We are intimately associated with the things we eat and even if you think that your dining decisions are automatic, I guarantee you that they are not. Three out of four … Continue reading
There Is Just No Way of Knowing Why, Right?
According to the New York Times this morning: Colon Cancer Rates Rising in Young Adults According to the actual abstract of the Journal of the American Medical Association study: Based on current trends, in 2030, the incidence rates for colon … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial ingredients, colon cancer, colorectal cancer, National food policy, real food, recipe, vegan breakfast
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You Gotta Have Fuel
If a person where to take all of the cautionary advice on the internet to heart he or she would not eat fats, carbohydrates or meats. In other words, starve–to death. A person absolutely must find sources of dietary energy … Continue reading
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Tagged Lentils, mayonnaise, NASH, Quinoa, real food, recipe, saturated fats, unsaturated fats
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Modern Day Cassandras
If you are like me, amazed that it was so easy to change your health, your weight, your lifestyle, you probably are just as amazed at how hard it is to spread the good news. Today I want to write about spreading … Continue reading
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Tagged breaking habits, Mark Bittman, real food, sugar detox, vb6
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Weird Foods
Cooking is an acquired talent. Planning to cook is something that you have time for but think that you don’t. Eating real food is an essential part of staying healthy and kicking the added sugar addiction that we all have. … Continue reading
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Tagged Butternut squash, how to cook, local foods, real food, recipes
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Type III Diabetes Is Preventable
You have heard me say in these pages before that Alzheimer’s disease, that ultimately fatal debilitation of the brain, is referred to commonly by physicians as type three diabetes. This relationship between insulin resistance and AD has been confirmed by … Continue reading
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Tagged alzheimer's disease, diabetes, diet, NIH, type iii diabetes
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Bottles of Milk
It comes in a bottle. If it did not, you would never drink it–milk. I, for one, have always thought that human beings drinking the product of another species mammary glands as a beverage was an unnatural act. This act … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer, food science, health claims, heart disease, milk, osteoporosis
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Relapse, Again
Some things never get old, like getting off of sugar and simple starch. I am gonna quit eating sugar every day, starting today. I know this sounds a lot like what I said I was planning to do just last … Continue reading
One Small Change at a Time 