A Culture Dying to Eat
Type 1 diabetes has changed. For hundreds of years it lurked in dusty wards and sanitariums. By and large, those cases were genetically linked to their family history…however short it may have been. Then a strange thing happened. In the late 1950’s or early 1960’s, the numbers started to diverge. The genetic linkage seemed to… [Continue Reading]
The ad copy couldn’t be clearer in its inference, “Our Recipe Was Perfected in Mother Nature’s Kitchen” It’s also made with “natural ingredients” and “no artificial flavors”. Heck, using it must be like simply spreading berries on toast. Looking at the ingredients and nutrition facts panel has me mad at either Mother Nature or Smucker’s… [Continue Reading]
It’s a classic image. An athlete bingeing on massive amounts of carbs before a race. The logic being that when you digest carbohydrates, they turn into sugar that goes to your cells to give you energy. The excess sugar is stored in your liver and your muscles as glycogen. It is believed that by loading… [Continue Reading]
Not only is fast food no good, eating food fast may be a bad idea. The International Congress of Endocrinology reports research to suggest that fast eaters are more than twice as likely to develop Type 2 diabetes! Perhaps scarfing down your food demands too much insulin all at once or it could be that… [Continue Reading]
Our cultural obsession with carbs is killing us. I have spent a lot of time talking with experts about the project…and they agree with that premise. I will need to talk with many more like minded individuals before I’m through. That being said this film isn’t for them. The health-minded people we all know will… [Continue Reading]
I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Abel Bascom for his popular Fat-Burning Man podcast. About thirty minutes into our conversation, Abel pitched me the most rant-inducing question he could have possibly delivered. Abel’s query pertained to the recent study out of Stanford University concluding that organically-grown food is no more nutritious than… [Continue Reading]
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I had my regular appointment with my endocrinologist today. She fired me…in a good way. “You don’t need to come here anymore” she exclaimed with a chuckle. “If you keep doing what you are doing, I don’t need to see you again.” Those aren’t the words you expect to hear from your doctor when you… [Continue Reading]
