This is me at my biggest and heaviest. My grandma had just passed and I was blessed to be her hospice nurse. Needless to say, eating my feelings to grieve got me through sleepless nights. I ate. I ate and I didn’t care about the consequences. I just wanted to…
For this week's article of the week, we discuss a study that outlines someone damaging their kidneys from eating a diet high in nuts and seeds.This may seem far fetched, but nuts and seeds are very high in an anti-nutrient known as oxalates. These particular anti-nutrients are particularly hard on…
In this week's podcast, we discuss all the problems with soy baby formula.People think creating baby formula should be scientific or at least a known commodity but it’s not. Baby formula is a money making venture. Companies cut cost everywhere they can to make as much profit as possible. They don’t…
Here is another example of a “health authority” being bought by a food company. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) started their “Kids Eat Right” program by endorsing Kraft Singles, a cheese product, not even real cheese!AND is supposed to be the leading authority on what foods are healthy.…
In this week's podcast, we discuss colostrum. Your first question may be, what is colostrum and why should I care about it?Colostrum is a milk like substance made from mammals before actual milk production. The amount produced varies from species to species but it’s usually produced for the first three…
In this week's podcast, we discuss the difference between organic and non-organic foods.Are organic foods healthier and contain more nutrition compared to their non-organic counterparts? No. Organic food production doesn't effect the nutritional quality of the food you buy. The organic label tells you more about how the food you…
On this week’s podcast, we continue our discussion on the cholesterol lowering medication called statins. In part 1, we discussed the history of the low fat/low cholesterol dietary recommendations, how those recommendations were used to prop up the use of statins, and why that has been devastating to the health…
On this week’s podcast, we continue our discussion on the cholesterol lowering medication called statins. In part 1, we discussed the history of the low fat/low cholesterol dietary recommendations, how those recommendations were used to prop up the use of statins, and why that has been devastating to the health…
On this week’s podcast, we continue our discussion on the cholesterol lowering medication called statins. In part 1, we discussed the history of the low fat/low cholesterol dietary recommendations, how those recommendations were used to prop up the use of statins, and why that has been devastating to the health…
On this week’s podcast, we continue our discussion on the cholesterol lowering medication called statins. In part 1, we discussed the history of the low fat/low cholesterol dietary recommendations, how those recommendations were used to prop up the use of statins, and why that has been devastating to the health…