So did anyone honestly think Coca-Cola cared about obesity? That the Superbowl Coca-Cola halftime ad that talked of all calories counting meant that they’d encourage people to drink less of their sugar water? Silly world says Coca-Cola. It’s not about the sugar water. It’s about chairs. Chairs make people fat. Here’s Coca-Cola’s first missive in its new… [Continue Reading]

According to The American Heritage® Medical Dictionary, “Carb Loading” is: A dietary practice that increases carbohydrate reserves in muscle tissue through the consumption of extra quantities of high-starch foods and is often followed by endurance athletes prior to competition. In truth, there is no better guide on Carb Loading then watching the average U.S. mom… [Continue Reading]

The time has come to decriminalize fat. Wrongfully accused of making you obese and gumming up your arteries, natural fats have been maligned for too long, leaving room for the actually harmful processed oils and imitations to corrupt our food landscape. But who’s who and what’s what? Let’s identify the authentic and the imposters. First… [Continue Reading]

Right??? If the health crisis was as bad as all of the low carbers claim, we would be dropping left and right. Is the western diet really THAT big of a deal? We have been eating like this for over half a century. After awhile it gets pretty hard to sort through the cacophony of… [Continue Reading]

Sure looks that way and it’s a brilliant move for the food industry. After all there are growing calls to ban the provision of toys with junk food, but what if instead of toys, junk food came with books and the purveyors of junk claimed that it was all in the name of improving literacy?… [Continue Reading]

Blow the trumpets. Roll out the red carpet. And tell everyone how you support (insert global health initiative here). It’s happening again. Not that I’m surprised mind you…but it is a bit maddening and somewhat disappointing to see Junk Food Giants attach their name and funding to charitable organizations fighting health epidemics that the very… [Continue Reading]

In the 40’s and 50’s a University of Minnesota researcher, Ancel Keys, postulated that the apparent epidemic of heart attacks in middle-aged American men was related to their mode of life and specifically the consumption of fat. Keys is famous for two contributions to nutritional science. The first is the invention of the military field… [Continue Reading]