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…
Food Rules: A Doctor’s Guide to Healthy Eating
In this book, Dr. Cate shows how all calories are not created equal; food is information that directs our cellular growth. Our family history does not determine our destiny: what you eat and how you live can alter your DNA in ways that affect your health and the health of your future children.
Deep Nutrition
In this book, Dr. Cate shows how all calories are not created equal; food is information that directs our cellular growth. Our family history does not determine our destiny: what you eat and how you live can alter your DNA in ways that affect your health and the health of your future children.
Can HDL Over 60 Protect You From Coronavirus?
If you are worried about coronavirus, you should be more worried about low cholesterol according to a new study that shows lower HDL and LDL predicts poor outcomes
Hidden Metabolic Disorders Allow COVID-19 to Kill “Healthy” People
GOOD NEWS! Physical copies of Deep Nutrition and The FATBURN Fix sold out from Amazon but ebooks and audiobooks are still available. Deep Nutrition is available from BooksAMillion.com and The FATBURN Fix is available from Barnes and Noble. Food Rules is available in all formats on Amazon. This article covers Why coronavirus is "like a flu" but also worse than scientists could have predicted Why coronavirus can cause lung failure (ARDS) in seemingly healthy adults Underlying metabolic conditions predispose people to ARDS Most of these conditions are related to high-PUFA seed oil consumption How PUFAs promote ARDS Simple action points to…
Dr. Cate Shanahan’s book: The FatBurn Fix
It's not you that wants to overeat. It's not you that doesn't have the energy to exercise. It's your metabolism. If you've gained and been unable to lose or lost and regained, it's not lack of willpower. It's lack of FATBURN.
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.
Can a low-PUFA Diet Really Increase Your IQ?
Learn how your diet may be affecting your IQ. We used to think that our IQ was fixed based on our genetics. But now we know that just as our genes can change during our lives, so can our neurons.
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
Overeating is Bad for Mitochondria: Calories Count, PUFA Calories Count More
We often overlook the fact that simply overeating puts a stress on the system (and PUFA-rich seed oils are the worst). I think we should include a fourth macronutrient: time between meals. The longer you can go without a meal or a snack or a beverage other than water, the healthier your mitochondria will be.
Birth Month and Autism Risk
An astute reader of Deep Nutrition points out the connection between holiday season indulgences in high carb and vegetable oil rich foods and increased risk of autism.
Vegetable Oil and Sugar Block Fat Burn and Mitochondrial Function
In 2017, mainstream medicine has taken giant step towards science backed advice. Meanwhile, sports nutrition still espouses that sugar is the best fuel for athletes, that low carb diets deplete glycogen stores, and that polyunsaturated fats are the healthy kind of fat.
Study Shows 100% Pre-Diabetes Remission With High Protein Diet
The first ever diet trial to 100% resolution of pre-diabetes with diet is neither low fat nor low carb. It's high protein.
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.
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.
