Food
When you wake up in the morning, do you wonder what you should eat that day? Are you sick of being mixed-up and confounded by conflicting media reports about the latest research on which foods are good or bad for us? One day eggs are unhealthy, and the next day they are a miracle food. One year the government tells us to eat six to eleven servings
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While wine and hard liquor are okay in small amounts, beer is off-limits. It’s loaded with carbs (one can of beer has about the same amount as a slice of white bread) and gluten. Sugary cocktails are also out of the question, and beer alternatives such as hard cider are not any better than beer.30
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POULTRY: WHAT THE HECK SHOULD I EAT? Organic or pasture-raised whole chicken
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fact, the use of pharmaceuticals in agriculture is so routine and widespread that more antibiotics are sold nationally for food-producing animals than for people.21 According to the Food and Drug Administration, 80 percent of antibiotics are used for preventing infection in animals raised in confined conditions and enhancing animal growth (yes, ant
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Big Sugar wants to hide the truth about its product. But don’t be fooled. There is overwhelming scientific consensus that sugar consumption is the driving force behind the obesity epidemic. After personally reading thousands of scientific papers and seeing more than 10,000 patients over 30 years, I’m convinced that the science could not be clearer:
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Michael Pollan, in his book Cooked, says, “The decline of everyday home cooking doesn’t only damage the health of our bodies and our land but also our families, our communities and our sense of how our eating connects us to the world.” Cooking is fun, freeing, and essential to achieving health and happiness. Unfortunately, we have handed over the a
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My food rule is if there are health claims on the label, what’s inside is probably unhealthy.
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Soda and All Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Are as Bad as You Think Sales of soft drinks in the United States are practically in free fall—in the United States, soda consumption is now at a 30-year low, and the biggest drop is among diet drinks, meaning that people are even wise to the hazards of no-calorie/artificially sweetened varieties. However, in
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Watch the movie or read the book Kiss the Ground to learn how we can reduce carbon dioxide to preindustrial levels through regenerative farming.