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5 fats you should be cooking with – but may not be

February 17, 2011 in Food & Nutrition | 42 comments

In a recent article I wrote on my other blog, 9 Steps to Perfect Health - #1: Nourish Your Body, I explained that saturated (SFA) and monounsaturated fats (MFA) are the preferred fuel source of the body. Another important benefit of LCSFA, and to a lesser degree MFA, is that they are stable at high temperatures and thus the safest fats to cook with.With this in mind, here's a list of my favorite ...
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A healthy gut is the hidden key to weight loss

October 29, 2010 in Diabesity | 32 comments

In a previous article in this series on diabesity I briefly mentioned the role of gut health in obesity and diabetes. I'd like to go into more detail on that subject here, especially since it's not a very well known relationship.Our gut is home to approximately 100,000,000,000,000 (100 trillion) microorganisms. That's such a big number our human brains can't really comprehend it. One trillion dollar bills laid end-to-end would stretch from ...
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10 ways stress makes you fat and diabetic

October 22, 2010 in Diabesity | 17 comments

In the first part of this series on diabesity, we "got under the hood" to look at the underlying mechanisms of both obesity and diabetes. We've now moved on to discussing the environmental and lifestyle risk factors that drive these conditions. In the last article we learned about the top 3 dietary causes of diabesity. In this article, we're going to see how stress can independently cause both obesity and diabetes.A huge - ...
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New study blasts the ridiculous low-fat dietary guidelines

October 3, 2010 in Food & Nutrition, Medical Industrial Complex | 14 comments

I got an email from Pamela Schoenfeld, R.D. the other day. She wanted to make me aware of a paper she and her colleagues (Hite, et al)published on Friday in the journal Nutrition. It's a critique of the Report of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Committee (DGAC) that recommended that we all go on eating the same low-fat, high-carb diet that has contributed to the epidemics of obesity, diabetes and heart disease (among others).The ...
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