Let’s talk about food and sex
No, this isn’t that episode of Seinfeld where George Costanza tried to combine the two in a feverish fantasy . . . and if you can’t handle some frank talk about an important part of your life, WARNING: hurry and get out of this blog and come back tomorrow. Did you know that what you [...]
10 Comments • Continue Reading →How much fat should I eat?
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: How much fats do you take in a day? From what I gathered from your book, it looks something like: 1 tablespoon flax oil in green smoothie, 2 tablespoons coconut oil on lips and skin, a handful of nut and seeds for snacks in the afternoon. Am I right? I [...]
8 Comments • Continue Reading →You don’t eat meat? Then where do you get your protein?
I know, I’ve blogged about this more than any other subject. But I’m going to say a few more things about it today, just in a slightly different way, because of that old statistic that people have to hear something 11 times before they believe it. And because that’s the question we plant [...]
14 Comments • Continue Reading →where to buy unrefined salt . . . part 2 of 2
This continues a review of one of my favorite things, OHCS, and a link for where to buy completely unrefined salt. A double-blind study done in Austria in 2003 examined the effects of drinking a minimum of 1.5 liters of water with table salt, versus 1.5 liters of water with Original Himalayan Crystal Salt (OHCS). [...]
37 Comments • Continue Reading →the nutritionally recalcitrant spouse . . . part four (summing up)
Lisle and Goldhamer, in The Pleasure Trap, write about how as a culture we’re like that frog in the boiling water. You try to put a frog in boiling water, he’s going to leap out. But put him in cold water and turn on the heat, he’s going to gradually boil to death without [...]
11 Comments • Continue Reading →how to buy yourself diabetes for only $0.50 a day
You know drinking soda is bad for you. Perhaps you and I talking a bit about WHY will be just the trigger you need to kick the habit—or get your kids to do so. Have a kid you care about read this. According to the Nutrition Research Center (Oct. 2007), here’s what [...]
3 Comments • Continue Reading →it’s not ALL nutritional bad news
I just read this: “Food is cheaper now by a long way, more abundantly available, more highly refined and more pressingly sold to us by very clever advertising companies and techniques. The remarkable thing is how anybody stays thin.” –Dr. Andrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine True and false. Everybody [...]
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I’ve said before that sugar is more addictive than cocaine (I’m not making this up—earlier research has documented this phenomenon). A new study in today’s paper, conducted in France, has been presented to the annual meeting for the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego. Rats offered a choice between cocaine and sugar chose [...]
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