It’s a long and winding road to good nutrition!
In my first newsletters, I told you a little about the rocky path to health that my family and I traversed. It’s not very often clear and linear, that path, is it? You try a lot of dumb stuff, yucky recipes you throw away, before you end up at the truth—and that’s if you’re lucky. [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →natural laxatives . . . part 4 of 9 on ELIMINATION
It’s important that we keep the colon and lower intestine clean and powerfully peristaltic. The answer isn’t to gag down some chemically reduced Metamucil stirred into water, while eating the Atkins Diet, like my friend Michelle does. When I occasionally go out on a limb and express concern about her long-term Atkins lifestyle, [...]
9 Comments • Continue Reading →Foods that cause constipation . . . part 2 of 9 about ELIMINATION
Yesterday, pee. Today, poop. Green bowel movements are completely normal (that’s the plant fiber in all those greens you’re eating!). Take a look at the horse poo you see along the road, if you live where you can see horses. It’s indicative of what they eat (alfalfa, all plant foods). You [...]
38 Comments • Continue Reading →on dehydrators, from an eater of Cheetos and Sweetarts
My good friend Michelle loves the Atkins Diet (has adopted it as an apparently permanent lifestyle, in fact). She in no way embraces (or even acknowledges the benefits of) my lifestyle. But I did convince her that she needs a dehydrator so she can soak/germinate her raw almonds that she just got in [...]
3 Comments • Continue Reading →Who you gonna call? Part II: I have more stuff to say about the diet docs
I thought I was done taking down the high-protein, fad-diet, doctor-scam-artists. But I want to say a bit more, starting with this quote from “Dr. Atkins’ Health Revolution”: “Imagine losing weight with a diet that lets you have bacon and eggs for breakfast, heavy cream in your coffee, plenty of meat and even [...]
4 Comments • Continue Reading →Who you gonna call? Part I: fat diet doctors and celebs
This starts a multi-part blog about the false gods we worship in the field of nutrition. First, I often wonder why people buy diet programs from overweight doctors in poor health. The worst offender is Dr. Robert Atkins. I would say “was,” but of course his company and family are still raking in [...]
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