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.
Cholesterol: What the American Heart Association is Hiding from You (Part 3)
For Part 1 click here For Part 2 click here Today's article is the third in a series of three intended to expose the truth about the cause of heart disease and the American Heart Association's role in hiding the truth from the American public, meaning doctors, patients, and everyone else. I hope this story convinces you that the AHA does not have your best interests at heart and that if you are interested in avoiding heart attacks and strokes, the last place you should turn to for advice is the AHA. I also hope that doctors who now follow…
Cholesterol: What the American Heart Association is Hiding from You (Part 2)
For Part One, Click HERE For Part THREE, Click HERE This is the second in a series of three articles that explode the myth that cholesterol is the cause of heart disease. Today's article will cover a dark period in scientific history that forever changed the course of human health and our relationship with food. My hope is this article will open everyone's eyes to the reality that the American Heart Association—the organization that taught your doctor high LDL cholesterol in your blood causes heart attacks—has betrayed our trust by feeding us fake news in the form of shady science,…
Cholesterol: What the American Heart Association is Hiding from You (Part 1)
The American Heart Association has been in the fake news business for decades. This means everything your doctors learned about heart attacks, strokes, LDL and HDL cholesterol, and nutrition is wrong. In fact, the nutrition advice coming from our most trusted institutions couldn't be better designed to make you sick. This article is the first in a series intended to shed light on a dark chapter of American history that few people know about: the story of how we as a nation became convinced that cholesterol is unhealthy, and the consequences of that belief. I will share with you what…
PUFA-Project: Scientific References on Seed Oil Toxicity
Mission: To promote consumer awareness of the evidence that PUFA overconsumption from seed oils that are wrongly promoted as healthy may be the underlying driver of most non-infectious diseases To support health professionals' understanding of the role of PUFA in driving non-infectious disease To support businesses that avoid seed oils and offer consumers healthy fats and oils (click here for products) To support global human nutrition and health by elevating culinary skills that wean us off seed oils Basic Principles PUFA stands for polyunsaturated fatty acid. These are natures most unstable fatty acids and when we cook with them they…
Fat Adapted Athletes Perform Better (video interview)
In this interview, we discuss the science behind real food-based, low-carb diets and sports performance. Additionally, we discuss the Four Pillars (common findings) of all healthy human diets
New Deep Nutrition – Available NOW!
If you've followed this website for any length of time, you probably noticed I don't do a lot of posting. It's not that I don't like to help you stay up to date on the latest nutrition news. It's that I always prefer to put diet information into its larger context to tell the whole story. When Luke and I set out to write the first edition of Deep Nutrition, that's exactly what we hoped to do. When a major publisher expressed interest in re-releasing Deep Nutrition, that was very exciting because it gave me an opportunity to put all the…
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.
Making veggies look bad
If you are someone with heart disease, or are at risk for heart disease or simply want to make the right nutritional choices, this article will help you understand how statisticians have misled us into being afraid of natural saturated fats, and fats in general.
Is dairy paleo? Revising history with new persectives on flocks of goats, femur bones and feckless nutritionism
A few decades ago, people of Paleo were universally against dairy. Today, the attitude towards dairy is undergoing a transformation. Still, the official word on dairy is a luke-warm maybe rather than the resounding yes I think it deserves to be. I believe many of us can add dairy into our diet not just for good health, but also to more accurately reproduce a true Paleolithic era diet.
Can Arterial Disease be Reversed?
The old model describes arteries as so many mechanical tubes that have no way to protect themselves from the inevitable clogging that comes from the consumption of cholesterol and saturated fat. The other, new model sees arteries as living dynamic tissue that, in the context of a healthy diet, is capable of growth, repair, and rising to the challenge of rigorous exercise.
Are you looking for the fountain of youth?
Supplement hucksters are never going to stop. But my longest-lived patients are not thriving on supplements; they're thriving on real food.
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.
Why go against the medical grain?
Here's the story about what led me to first to question and then to condemn the theory that cholesterol causes heart disease.
