Every once in a while I get these weird cravings for foods that I haven’t entertained since I’ve adopted my real food philosophy, which minimizes my exposure to gut and blood sugar busting grains and flours. Often these cravings are for pseudo-healthy foods that tickle some emotional connection to my youth, which often only come out when things are going really, really well or really, really poorly. Consider this one of those cravings. Read More
Food and movement are highly divisive topics and it is common place for proponents of one eating, moving style to admonish others, labeling them as foolish, ignorant, or down right negligent.
A current example may be the paleo v. plant-based battle that is being waged in white collar communities around the country. You may have taken a position in the conflict and have, at one point in time or another, thrown bacon or TVP fueled rhetoric at the opposing faction. However, if you’ve been living on the outskirts of the skirmish without the slightest intimation of the nutritional theory undercurrent ripping apart cul-de-sac filled neighborhood across the country, free up a few hours, Google “paleo versus plant-based”, and be prepared to receive some of the most highly charged, partisan garble this side of the iPhone-Galaxy debate. Read More
There are few things in the realm of dietary modification that promise immediate, measureable improvements in health and wellbeing. For example, eating an extra serving of vegetables will certainly improve your health, but determining exactly how much it will affect your cholesterol, A1c, or body composition is going to be somewhat difficult, if not impossible.
When evaluating the health improvements that any one health may impart, we must also take into consideration the fact that we often adopt multiple healthful habits at once, which, together, produce a profound effect upon health, but being able to contribute a specific amount of said improvement to x, y, or z isn’t going to happen. For example, you may have better, more consistent bowel movements, but can that be attributed to an increase in vegetable intake, decrease in non-vegetable intake, or any of the almost infinite dietary/lifestyle modifications (more exercise, less smoking and drinking, etc.) one could make to improve health. Read More
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