How Eliminating Vegetable Oil (AKA the Hateful 8 Seed Oil) Helps Weight Loss
To lose weight we need to burn more body fat than we build. But the hateful 8 seed oils block fat burning. Find out how.
Seed oils: Questions and answers for your health
All the answers to your health questions about how seed oils are harmful to your health. And which vegetable oils and fats are good and which are bad.
Valentine Chocolate: Saying “I love you” Without Lecithin
Finding the Best (Healthiest) Chocolate for Your Valentine Unless your valentine is in the 10% minority of chocolate refusers, shopping for chocolate is in your February future. If you're an ingredient reader, you're going to run into lecithin. Lots of lecithin. Especially soy and sunflower lecithin. Many folks are wary of ingredients like lecithin. This article will discuss what it is, why its added, and what you need to know to find the best tasting and healthiest chocolate for the money. We'll cover Is Dark Chocolate Healthier than Milk Chocolate? What Makes Expensive Chocolate Better than Cheap? Should I avoid…
Why is Junk Food Bad for Your Health? It’s the FAT (mostly) but NOT the Saturated Fat
Processed food can make us fat, but it may have effects that are more profound, including the disruption of facial geometry.
The Hateful Eight: Enemy Fats That Destroy Your Health
Eliminating the eight high-PUFA seed oils that are overabundant in the food supply is the NUMBER ONE best thing you can do to help your immune system beat coronavirus. Here's why.
Are Products with Soy Lecithin Safe to Eat? (Like Chocolate & Ice Cream)
Page Content: What is Lecithin and why is it in so many foods? Is soy lecithin bad (high PUFA)? What about Sunflower? Everything that applies to SOY lecithin also applies to SUNFLOWER lecithin How much soy lecithin is there in chocolate, ice cream and other products? Should I avoid chocolate or other foods that contain soy lecithin? What about other problems with soy like GMOs and phytoestrogens? If you've been reading labels lately, you might have noticed soy lecithin showing up on the ingredients list. If you haven't, take a look the next time you buy prepared foods like chocolate,…
Can You Really Cook with Olive Oil?
The whole concept of smoke point may have been created by the edible oil industry to sell us their cheap, flavorless and (now we know) unfortunately quite toxic products.
List of Good Fats and Oils versus Bad
This page was created to serve as a resource listing good fats and oils versus bad fats and oils. The goal is to serve as a clearinghouse for discussions around why a given fat or oil is good or bad for human health, and to include recommendations for the healthiest cooking practices.
Migraine Headache Diet Treatments that Work: Cut Your PUFA Consumption
Today's post will review two very interesting articles using very different sounding but actually similar strategies to improve migraine pain, low-fat vegan, versus targeted omega-3/omega-6 rebalancing
Cholesterol Is Good, The American Heart Association is Bad
Are you watching your cholesterol? Then you might be interested to read this story, describing the American Heart Association’s role in creating mass cholesterol-phobia, including evidence that they actively suppressed information that would have changed the course of medical history.
Study: PUFA-Rich Soy Oil Promotes Obesity and Fatty Liver
American's are now consuming 1000x more soy oil than we did 100 years ago. Soy oil promotes oxidative stress, which makes it more fattening than it's caloric content would suggest.
Paleo Diet Basics Part Two: Points of Contention
Today’s post is designed to air out some of the points of contention about Paleo, to best assure your Paleo plans result in you enjoying the success you are hoping for.
Deep Nutrition Made Simple: START HERE
As a doctor, I've discovered that most chronic conditions occur because two thirds of our calories come either toxic seed oils or blood sugar elevating carbohydrates and sweets. These are themain ingredients in junk food. But many products containing these same unhealthy ingredients are disguised as health foods.
Foods High in Fat are GOOD for You for These Five Reasons
It seems counterintuitive that we need to eat (natural) fats to burn fat, but we do. You are what you eat, but that's not the whole story! Many people on a low-fat diet lose their ability to burn fat, though they can still store it very effectively.
Advantages of Breastfeeding: Formula Contains Aluminum!
Breastfeeding but thinking of quitting? If you worry about aluminum in vaccines, you may be surprised at how much aluminum is found in popular infant formulas.
Tiger Woods’ Concussion: What kind of recovery can he expect?
Tiger Woods recently had a single car accident--a nasty one. Reports say he was out for as long as six minutes when his wife found him. When a doctor hears that a patient has suffered a brain injury severe enough to alter consciousness, they get concerned. Loosing consciousness altogether suggests a significant insult to the brain. With an injury like that, I would tell a patient to expect between six weeks and six months of after effects, including headaches, irritability, and concentration deficits. This can be frightening and frustrating for both patient and the people they live and work with.…
Vegetable Oil Is Everywhere
Look for vegetable oils on every label. They promote inflammation starting in the gut and extending into the arteries, nervous system, and everywhere else.
Salad Dressing: The Silent Killer
If your switch from fries to salads hasn't helped you, it's because you are pouring deadly trans fat onto those crispy, vitamin-rich greens.
