The New Face of Evidence Based Medicine Includes the Patient
I read one too many petulant outbursts by nutrition scientists in Canada– and here in the US as well– as they responded to media coverage that a “mere” author was called to testify in front of the...
View ArticleWHY WE CAN’T EAT JUST ONE: Eating Carbs First Drives Higher Blood Sugar Levels
I first noticed that eating bread first set me up to over eat way back in the early 1990’s, and it wasn’t just bread. Any carbohydrate would trigger a dreaded compulsion to eat more. One I started...
View ArticleHow to Avoid Regretting Your Vacation
Getting away from it all often gets conflated with trying to get away with everything. How often is vacation code for over eating, excessive drinking, too little sleep and not enough physical...
View ArticleThe Value of Increasing Organic Soil: Put Carbon Back Where it Belongs:
What if the solution to climate change was right beneath our feet? Increasing levels of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere drive climate warming, so we are told to eat less meat in order to...
View ArticleWhy is Feeding Grain to Cows a Problem?
I’m finally looking at the peer reviewed edition of an article I wrote for Today’s Dietitian last year, making it a bit out of date before it’s published despite some earnest tweaking. The subject?...
View ArticleThe Pregnant Pause: Eating to prepare for pregnancy
Most women shift into overdrive to eat healthy during pregnancy, however they may accomplish the most good before they even get pregnant. A healthy diet, regular exercise, and care around chemicals...
View ArticleARE SUPER FOODS FOR BABY A SUPER MISTAKE?
What is with the emphasis on super foods today? You would think these foods offered immortality and everlasting youth. As the phenomena peaks, I see more and more push for feeding super foods to...
View ArticleBattling Food Allergies, Asthma, and Auto Immune Disease with Bugs
We hear so much about food allergies today that comedian rifs are almost cliche. However, the phenomena is real as allergies and lesser understood food sensitivities continue to escalate. In...
View ArticleFood Safety: A growing tension between safe for today and safe over time
As National Food Safety Month draws to a close, I grapple with a growing suspicion that many things we do to ensure a safe food supply today conflicts with what our body and the planet needs to keep us...
View ArticleFrom Beef to Bacon: How much does eating red meat increase risk of cancer?
The World Health Organization threw the food and nutrition world into a tizzy yesterday with the publication of a Lancet article claiming that processed meat causes cancer and red meat is a likely...
View ArticleObesity Rises Despite All the (Ineffective) Efforts to Fight It
Today the New York Times reports that federal health officials are disappointed as Americans continue to get fatter despite all the effort to demonize fast food, soda, and sugar, as well as the...
View ArticleSurviving Abundance: How to Navigate the Holidays
After a blood test on Monday the technician advised me to “Eat healthy!” when I got up to leave. I laughed and told him, “I’m a dietitian.” He smiled sheepishly and then responded, “I should be...
View ArticleCleanses, Diets, and Food Fads: How to keep what you eat from slipping into...
On our national day of gratitude celebrating an abundance of good food inducing a carbohydrate coma, the Los Angeles Times published the accounting of a testy court hearing in South Africa featuring...
View ArticleWill Congress Undermine The US Dietary Guidelines?
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View ArticleEat Better & Support Your Metabolic Health: 16 Suggestions for 2016
SIXTEEN WAYS TO EAT BETTER AND SUPPORT METABOLIC HEALTH IN 2016 As we begin a new year, I shamelessly jump on the 16 Suggestion bandwagon of other thought leaders, like Robyn O’Brien and Mark Burhenne,...
View ArticleWhy is Feeding Grain to Cows a Problem?
I’m finally looking at the peer reviewed edition of an article I wrote for Today’s Dietitian last year, making it a bit out of date before it’s published despite some earnest tweaking. The subject?...
View ArticleEATING BETTER–How to protect yourself from the high cost of cheap food
Americans collectively spend about 17 % of the gross national product o(GNP) on health care trying to ward off or treat chronic metabolic diseases including diabetes, heart disease, gastrointestinal...
View ArticleComing to Terms with Our Chemical World: Why consumers can’t afford to be...
I bought a new set of cookware this month. Over 25 years ago I purchased a set of Circulon pots and pans and I don’t want to cook with them anymore. A mishap in the kitchen left me wondering if it was...
View ArticleEating Disorders and Autism: If there is a link, what is it?
I sat in the dark observing my son through a two way mirror, watching the teachers and the children intently. The director, Dr. Mudita Bahadur, stepped inside the darkened room as I furiously...
View ArticleThe Prices of Spices: Are consumers paying for the product or the packaging?
Herbs and spices are typically irradiated or chemically treated to minimize pests, so I look for organic products. Still I balk every time I pick up a jar of seasoning, knowing that those cute little...
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