Category: Whole Food Search for: Eating right on vacation . . . part II How do you spend your vacation dollars? This is my breakdown of vacation expenses for my family of six (not including boring stuff like gas): Attractions: $729 Disneyland two… Good, Better, Best . . . Part II GRAINS Good: eat whole grains and quit eating white flour. Better: eat soaked whole grains (this requires planning a little ahead, as my cousin noted). Best: eat sprouted, raw nuts,… Good, Better, and Best in Nutrition I want to talk about good, better, and best in nutrition. I got an email yesterday from my cousin who said that the idea of soaking/sprouting grains in advance… macular degeneration My friend Randy, a restaurant manager nearing 50, just told me he had to leave the Utah Jazz game last night in the third quarter, because… cardiovascular health: nature vs. nurture I went to give blood today, hoping that my always-borderline hematocrit was high enough. It was. Though one point lower and I’d have been rejected–again. Like most… storing GS in the fridge and vegetarians in rotten health Dear GreenSmoothieGirl, how long can you keep your green smoothie in the fridge? I’m single and don’t want to make it every day. Does it lose nutrition and… Eating Healthy While Traveling I’m back from a fun trip down south for a baseball tournament in the sun. It’s been a long winter, and I was looking forward to some sun. But… Who you gonna call, Part V: top-secret advice! So I just wrecked the pedestal underneath the Fat Diet Docs and celebs, the personal trainers, the network marketers’ pills, potions, and juices, and the blood type and metabolic typing… Who You Gonna Call, Part VII: The Guys Telling You to Eat for Your “Type” Joe Mercola’s been hyping his metabolic typing program to his 1.5 million readers. You, too, can pay big bucks for it, as soon as he’s done creating it. … Who You Gonna Call? Part III: Nutrition Advice from Personal Trainers My friend Cheryl told me at the gym the other day that she got online with a “Virtual Personal Trainer.” This guy has quite a following here locally and… 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”: … 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…
