The Food Hourglass

Dr. Kris Verburgh came up with an alternative to the Harvard healthy eating plate that might be more practical for some who are attempting to alter their diet. The food…

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In defense of red meat

I've been a bit hard on red meat recently. So, today I'll play devil's advocate. Here are three recent studies that indicate that red meat does not appear to be…

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Clearing up the confusion over fat

I know. I am obsessed with the Harvard School of Public Health. In this podcast, they attempt to clear up the confusion over fat: www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/multimedia-article/podcast-diet-fat/ Here's the gist of it.…

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Wild Game

Debates about the consumption of animal proteins usually arrive at a point where the meat advocate claims that the real issue is how the animals are raised. If one would…

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Despite meat-heavy diet, indigenous tribe has world’s healthiest hearts (but most have chronic intestinal ailments)

Researchers have discovered that despite meat-heavy diets, low levels of good cholesterol and high levels of inflammation, an indigenous South American tribe has the healthiest hearts ever examined — and…

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Concerned about Inflammation?

It seems like every morning I wake up to another article telling me to avoid certain allegedly inflammation-causing foods. An important to always keep in mind is who is writing…

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