Disclaimer I am not a doctor. I am not a nutritionist. I am not a dietician. I am not a tax-preparer, a lawyer, a scientist, a phlebotomist, a bassoonist, a balloonist or a cop.
If you need medical or nutritional advice, please seek it out from a qualified professional. Because that's not me -- I am simply a curious and opinionated woman who loves butter.
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I’ve been gone a long, long time, swept up with family obligations and big changes.
But I am back and here to tell you that sugar causes cancer. Not really news. We all suspected it, right? I mean, my parents used to tell me this when I was a kid in an effort to curb my sweet tooth. In fact, they once told me that “everything causes cancer” and I took them at face value for years.
Well, anyone whose read up on sugar (“Sugar Blues” is a good place to . . .
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Earlier, I wrote this post about how grains were not nutritionally superior to other whole foods — fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, dairy, nuts and legumes.
In this post I will go even further by saying that grains are actually bad for you. As in poison, albeit a slow-acting and often super-delicious poison.
I was originally going to write about various negative aspects of grains, but instead I decided to focus today on one issue: gluten.
It’s the sticky stuff in pasta and bread. It’s found in wheat and other grains such . . .
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So it turns out that eating a low-fat diet might not just make you crazy and violent — it can give you a heart disease or stroke!
Every time researchers discover (through the scientific method) a truth contrary to the bunk peddled by large agri-business, quacks who sell dieting books and programs and the regulators and legislators who are bought and paid for, they call it a “paradox” or a “conundrum.”
Take the “cholesterol conundrum” for example. High cholesterol is linked to higher serotonin and low cholesterol is linked to low serotonin. To . . .
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Guiding principles: We should strive to produce & eat food that is:
Organic
Humanely raised (animals on pasture, not in factories)
Grown locally when possible
Whole and unrefined (real maple syrup instead of high-fructose corn syrup)
Processed as little as possible (raw milk instead of pasteurized and homogenized)
Nutrient-dense (enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and probiotics)
Free of additives and preservatives
Free of synthetic and chemical ingredients
Not genetically modified
Traditionally produced and prepared
Myth Buster Myth: Saturated fat (animal fat) is bad for you.
Truth: Saturated fats are necessary for health. It's polyunsaturated fats (most vegetable oils) and hydrogenated fats that cause disease.
Myth: Fat makes you fat.
Truth: Sugar makes you fat -- whether it comes in the form of table sugar, grains or starches.
Quote of the week: I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
-- Thomas Jefferson
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