A Culture Dying to Eat
To give you an idea of what kind of food I buy every day, please check out my shopping cart for today: salmon chicken bacon eggs bell pepper feta cheese in olive oil strawberries pure cream (40% fat) sour cream (35% fat) spinach I add a few more ingredients (onion, carrots, salt, pepper) and our… [Continue Reading]
If you spend any time thinking about the food infrastructure in the United States (and the world) you will get both discouraged and angry. Just a quick glance at our food system reveals a massive failure. I am talking about death and destruction on a globally epic scale. Frankenstein’s monster is loose in the countryside.… [Continue Reading]
“What’s for dinner?” should stimulate your appetite not provoke panic. How about Poached Salmon over Curried Spinach? (See my recipe at the end of this article and more like it at foodtruthonline.com) There’s so much talk about what not to eat, particularly for diabetics. Operating from this deprived mindset can feel defeating. It’s much more… [Continue Reading]
When seeking to improve health or weight, should we do this in small steps or radical changes? Should we, for example, go on a strict LCHF diet or start out by just making a minor dietary change? My tip is to start small with one big change. For example, I advise patients who want to… [Continue Reading]
The BBC’s Jeremy Paxman, in discussing the insane amounts of sugar in movie theater serving sizes of Coca-Cola (23 teaspoons of sugar in a small movie Coke, 44 teaspoons in a large), leads Coca-Cola Europe’s President James Quincey to state (at 4:38 in video below), “Look, I do think we need to recognize that things… [Continue Reading]
So, do we really need all that glucose in our bloodstream to fuel the activities of our muscles and brain? Public health authorities still recommend a carbohydrate-rich diet to achieve health (food pyramid). However, the increasing number of chronic disease patients indicates that carbohydrates might not be the ideal food for human beings. People who… [Continue Reading]
The legacy of the USDA Food Pyramid is deception. Really. I know I sound like a conspiracy theorist but I don’t like buying into something that benefits everyone else but me. I was in grade school when the food Pyramid was presented as the model for healthy eating and it made a huge impression on… [Continue Reading]
A calorie is not a calorie. There are plenty of studies demonstrating how different kinds of food affect us in different ways – despite having the same number of calories. Recently another interesting study was published. The participants were served milkshakes that were identical in every way, except how rapidly digested the carbs were. The… [Continue Reading]
