A popular, new documentary on Netflix What the Health is getting a lot of attention in the press. It touts a vegetarian diet and blames meat for the country’s skyrocketing disease and obesity [...]
Category: Nutrition
Prevent skin cancer by adding this to your salads
The fall harvest is upon us. Perhaps you’ve been gathering the last of the delicious, ripened vegetables from your garden or from local farm stands in the countryside as you set out on autumn [...]
Never take these three forms of magnesium
Yesterday, I reported on the importance of keeping nuts in your diet, despite what the government warned for decades. As I explained, nuts have a healthy ratio of lower omega-6 to higher omega-3 [...]
Lower your disease risk with this on-the-go snack
Many of us associate nuts with the fall harvest. They go well in many of my favorite savory dishes at this time of year. I just made a healthy, delicious cranberry-pecan chicken salad in that [...]
Surprisingly huge mistakes even “health nuts” make
It’s harder than ever to stay well-nourished — much less optimally nourished. First of all, grocery shelves are full of packaged junk foods. Additionally, the nutritional content of even healthy [...]
Nuts and honey for your heart
I remember a cleverly packaged and promoted boxed cereal with nuts and honey. They made it sound quite appealing. But it was just another processed product containing carbs and sugar masquerading [...]
Stick with foods that don’t need labels
I always advise you against eating processed foods, including processed meat. As I explained on Tuesday, a huge, new, taxpayer-funded study by AARP-NIH recently made headlines by proclaiming that [...]
Three reasons why eating meat is still important
Recent headlines again screamed that meat consumption is bad for your health. The headlines were based on a large, long-term study by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and the [...]
Five great reasons to eat apples year-round
Until recent generations, if you wanted apples at this time of year, you had to drink apple cider, or hope you had some apples left in your root cellar from last fall. Today, we’re fortunate that [...]
Eat chili peppers for a longer (and hotter) life
The next time you make dinner, throw some red, hot chili peppers into the dish. New research links them with improved longevity. For this new study, researchers at the University of Vermont [...]