think about a cute wiggly piglet before you eat that sausage!

What if anytime you ate pork, you had to see a cute little piggy? Do you think people would be less interested in gobbling it up? Check out what happens when people are offered a fried blob of pork in the grocery store, and then they are shown just how fresh that meat might really [...]

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hot dogs as bad for you as cigarettes?

Thanks to alert reader Lowana, for sending me this article about hot dogs. I think the very first nutrition study I read in my 20′s was about childhood cancer. The study found only one commonality in the children who had developed cancer, versus the control group: they consumed 11+ hot dogs per month. (Yes, I [...]

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What I DON’T do, every day, in my family

So I admit (on a regular basis, actually) that I’m not perfect. Anyone who knows me and sees the inside of my fridge, and what I do on vacation, knows that I “walk the talk.” I really do the stuff I teach, and I do it consistently. But I am also human. If I indulge, [...]

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