What is protein?
Protein is a type of food that includes meats and dairy products such as milk and cheeses and eggs. But what is protein itself? Amino Acids Protein breaks down further into what are called amino acids...
View ArticleDon't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognize as food
Before Michael Pollan's book, In Defense of Food, was published, I read an article of his in the New York Times Magazine. It was brilliant, and, from it, I started quoting that sentence about...
View ArticleCholesterol – an obsolete medical myth
Cholesterol is an obsolete medical myth that needs to bite the dust! There's a new study that's found that if your cholesterol levels are low, they can lessen the "beneficial muscle gain from...
View ArticleFood Variety and the Science of Nutrition
The Science of Nutrition emerged nearly full-blown in the 1980′s to better deal with the problems of the Western diet. You might think that a national fixation on nutrition would have led to measurable...
View ArticleSimple Sweet Chemistry
As my personal quest for alternatives to highly refined white sugar has been ongoing for many years, I needed to make the chemistry of sweet simple for myself and my family. Agave syrup is the second...
View ArticleLakanto — a 0 Glycemic Index sugar replacement
Having found out that agave is processed put a damper on our sweet tooth and our intake of "organic" ice cream. We found out the hard way that, although agave is a step down the glycemic index —...
View ArticleBlood Sugar and Healthy Eating
A layman's understanding As well as to fill our stomachs and to enjoy the pleasures of eating, we eat to obtain energy. In this quest, we also consume different kinds of sugars, not all of which are...
View ArticleHypoglycemia – low blood sugar
A layperson's understanding Following George's excellent article on Blood Sugar, I thought I'd add my two cents regarding hypoglycemia, commonly referred to as low blood sugar. The word hypoglycemia...
View ArticleHow About Roasting a Goose for Christmas Dinner?
For Christmas dinner this year, serve a savory, roasted goose — a fresh-from-the-farm bird if you can find one. Even though early American settlers had an unlimited supply of wild turkey, old European...
View ArticleAches, Energy and Vitamin B12
Dr. Mercola's Vitamin B-12 So I was sitting around the other evening (a while back, when we were back in Los Angeles), wondering why I felt … rather worn out, with strange achy pains in my legs. I...
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