Makin’ Mayo
Store bought mayonnaise has many questionable ingredients. Its really not that hard to make your own.
Continue reading »Safer Lettuce is Simple!
What can you do to protect yourself from a lettuce recall? The solution is simple.
Continue reading »Dangerous Words
Yesterday, I wrote about the ambiguous nature of one word: sugar. The food industry and well meaning mainstream nutritionists have succeeded in confusing us. Is sugar good? Is it bad? I spend loads of time helping clients understand the distinctions between the sugar found in carrots and how that is completely different from the crystalline [...]
Continue reading »Sugar: Whats in a word?
Sugars are not just “empty calories”, sugar is a major anti-nutrient that can wreck havoc with your health.
Continue reading »Girl Scout Cookies: Epic Fail
Now that the Girl Scout Cookie sales have started, I can’t sit by and stay silent about the atrocities that these well meaning scouts are innocently perpetrating on their families, their friends and even the planet. I’m well aware that these cookies have a place in the hearts and minds of so many people. My [...]
Continue reading »Reads for Eaters
There has been an explosion of food and nutrition related books over the past few years. People ask me all the time what books to read to get up to speed with food. Not to overwhelm you, I taken my top 100 favorite books on the subject and cooked that list down to just 7. [...]
Continue reading »Re-thinking Your Drink
Last night while most of the country was watching the Super Bowl, I was learning about fructose metabolism. A lecture by Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist held my attention for over 90 minutes as he explained how fructose, present in both fruit juice and most soda can act as a poison in our livers. [...]
Continue reading »Food IQ in Medical School: Part 2
As I finish putting together the finishing touches on lecture portion of my class on food for medical students, its time to focus on the really fun part of this class. For a clinical rotation, they’ll be joining me at a supermarket. I want them to understand what their patients deal with on an every [...]
Continue reading »Extinct
As the Copenhagen Climate talks wind down, I’m not feeling all that hopeful that our world leaders can all agree on some bold meaningful action to reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere. I’ve been sitting here in a funk about what the next decade will look like as the climate continues to change in unpredictable [...]
Continue reading »Tiger Woods, Laughing Gas and Cow Farts
photo credit: gitsul. While many Americans are wasting valuable time oggling the news for the latest update on Tiger’s sex life, our atmosphere is filling up with greenhouse gases that may make human civilization unsustainable in the not too distant future. By now, you’ve probably heard about CO2. Carbon Dioxide is the main greenhouse gas [...]
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