The Skinny on Oils
There is so much information on cooking oil out there, and so much confusion! On my coaching boards we discuss this a LOT, mostly because restaurants STILL think they are smart cooking with VEGETABLE oil. NO! Do NOT use canola, corn or soy! They are:...
2022: Update on Fats
The latest research shows adding saturated fats to your diet can actually lower inflammation and cardiovascular disease. Know which are safe!
Fats Simplified
Since I first posted this in 2013, we’ve had access to even more research, especially about saturated fats, and the news is good: they help decrease heart disease and they truly help inflammation. I updated this in ’17, ’19 and now for 2020. This is...
How prepared food is sabotaging our health…
I was in the store recently in a large city. It was a very nice grocery store, and most people who go there think highly of their merchandise. I do a lot of flipping packages around and REALLY looking at nutrition information. Because most of...
Snack “not so well”…
This is going to be a short post. I’ve written before about processed food. And we continue to get hood-winked into thinking processed food is ok, EVEN HEALTHY. It hardly EVER is. Let’s take Snackwell Cookies. Or as I call them “diet sabotage” cookies. First,...
Healthy Recipe? …NOT!
Yesterday, I got the above in a newsletter from our health insurance company, and I was intrigued… Until I read the fine print, and I realized that they basically just sabotaged their clients with REALLY bad information. This is what I think of this “healthy...
What hunger REALLY means.
One of the things I teach when I do my Food As Medicine Classes is that hunger doesn’t just mean you’re hungry, it means MUCH more. Your body is giving you a signal it wants MACRO and MICRONUTRIENTS! In fact, I use this slide: An...
Low Carb Confusion
There is so much confusion about low carb diets. The choice is individual. See how they compare, without the hype.
Protein Labels 101
Organic vs. Natural vs. Free Range vs. Grass Fed: Making sense of labels on your protein choices. Natural“Natural” can be very misleading. The USDA defines a natural product as one that contains “no artificial ingredient or added color and is only minimally processed.” Processing must...
Bad-Better-Best: Coffee Creamer
Here is something that confuses a lot of people. What to put in coffee? We were taught dairy was bad, and non-dairy creamer was glorified as “heart healthy”. Guess what? The last five – ten years of research has proven that the OPPOSITE is true. ...
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