Many different organizations and health experts have purposed various solutions to solve the western world’s obesity epidemic. A large majority of the population has hypothesized that the problem is related to governmental food guides, video games, a fast paced society and a lack of focus on nutritional education. These are all contributing factors to the [...]
On February 24, 2013, just a few days ago, the New York Times published an extremely disturbing article written by Michael Moss, titled The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food. If you have read it, then you know what we are talking about. If you haven’t, we urge you to do so now. The article [...]
“It’s an important question for American families and the nation as a whole: Why do so many kids weigh too much?” was the opening line on a piece the other day on NPR. One in every three American kids is overweight or obese was the first shocking statistic referred to; shocking not because it was [...]
Early drafts of our book, Perfect Health Diet: Regain Health and Lose Weight by Eating the Way You Were Meant to Eat from Scribner, began with an exploration of which factors are most important for health, based on human longevity, mortality, and morbidity in different cultures at different times. This is a fascinating topic. Dan [...]
Thanks to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, for translating the recent Coke commercial touting the ethics and corporate responsibility they’ve exercised in their products. Wouldn’t it be great if this could actually be aired on TV?
Meatless Monday has been getting a lot of traction in the past year with a lot of hype in the media. It’s been touted as the end all-be all answer to combatting obesity. Notice the first post on the Meatless Monday site is for a soy based meat substitute — that’s what I call healthy [...]
From the same type of thinking that said smoking doesn’t harm your health, the good folks at Coca Cola have now come out with a new ad campaign wanting to shine a light on the obesity epidemic. They point out that many of the options they offer are sugar-free, but fail to talk about what’s [...]
As Hippocrates once stated “Let your food be your medicine” it is increasingly clear that the food most of the world is eating is poison. By eating a diet mainly of fish, grass-fed pasture raised meats, vegetables, fruit, fungi, roots, and nuts, and excludes grains, legumes, dairy products, refined salt, refined sugar, and processed oils…
It’s nice to see Gary Taubes getting some exposure via Mother Jones. Not that it’s a surprise about his position on sugar — I love his message about the research that’s been done (and that which is not being done) and how there are many holes that need to be filled up. I come from [...]
