I’m sure you’ve seen the commercials. A spiffy salesman walks on screen, smiles, and says “Hi, I’m from the Corn Refiners Association, and I’m here to sell you the new American Dream. You can have all the degenerative diseases of modern civilization in a package deal so cheap it’s practically free. All you have to pay …
Sarah Pope of The Healthy Home Economist alerted me to the fact that Dr. Mercola has been spreading the myth that fermentation destroys the goitrogens in soy. Nothing could be further from the truth. The isoflavones of soy, predominantly genistein and daidzein, are the estrogenic and goitrogenic toxins we are concerned about, and they exist …
Does your liver look like this? All those white bubbles are fat droplets. I’m busier than a bumblebee right now, so unfortunately the high-fructose corn syrup post is going to have to wait till Tuesday. Today I’ll make a quick post about fatty liver disease. Someone on the Facebook version of this blog posed the …
The first article I ever wrote about nutrition was an article for the Fall, 2004 issue of Wise Traditions called “Vitamin A: The Forgotten Bodybuilding Nutrient,” in which I argued that bodybuilders should eat nutrient-dense foods rich in vitamin A such as liver and cod liver oil in order to boost protein utilization and testosterone …
My new article in the current Fall Wise Traditions is already up online, unexpectedly soon, and you can read it here: Precious Yet Perilous — Understanding the Essential Fatty Acids It’s jam-packed full of important information but is lighter, shorter, and easier to read than my PUFA Report Part I, is updated with a little …
Here’s my response to “B” from the vegetarian site “30 Bananas a Day!” who suggested that I made a misleading oversight in my recent article “The Curious Case of Campbell’s Rats” by not accounting for the young age of the rats in these studies: Addendum to “The Curious Case of Campbell’s Rats” Enjoy!