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The Axis of ParadoxWe are constantly being told to avoid "artery clogging" saturated fats, found in delicious foods like butter, eggs, cheese, pork and beef. It's for our health, they say. That's a...
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Our National Bird?"You don't get an eagle by merging two turkeys." -- Tom PetersPerhaps not, but then why would you want to? Turkeys are beautiful, charismatic, inquisitive, delicious birds. Can you...
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Is wheat killing us?IntroductionMaybe you've heard someone say, "Well, in Asian countries they eat low fat diets and they don't have many heart attacks." This is mainly, mostly true. But interestingly,...
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On Nurses, Pork Fat and PotatoesDr. Walter Willett is a guy who almost gets it. The Harvard physician is maybe the most outspoken mainstream researcher in questioning the tenets of the USDA Food...
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I've just finished reading Micheal Pollan's New York Times Magazine article "Unhappy Meals". The first line of the article is, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." I couldn't agree more with his...
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I love news days like this. The two top health stories on news.google.com are about studies that throw into question the legitimacy of two major tenets of mainstream nutritional advice: avoid saturated...
View ArticleOh Yeah, The Lactose Thing
OK, OK. I guess I let the cart get a little before the horse in my last entry leading to some testy reader comments. I referenced lactose intolerance before I actually wrote the article about it. Well,...
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