How to eat heathier foods

I just found the following in a recent article on food navigator USA.com:

According to a public opinion survey commissioned by the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD), 82 percent of Americans think food companies should be making a greater effort to

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Fasting for weight loss

I found this comment on one of my previous posts. It actually took me a couple reads before I realized the irony in what he was saying:

When I studied abroad in France, my host-mother would often fast to lose

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The lighter side of Food

It’s been pretty serious around the Nutrition Help Blog these last couple days. Luckily, Adam Campbell gave me a great idea….a little Jim Gaffigan to lighten the food.

Why Jim? About a minute in, it’s all about food.

I could … Read More

It’s a Yes or No Question

A little of topic, but nonetheless…

I believe Dick Pound is a brave man for his willingness to take on pro-athletes and their accused steroid habits.

My favorite quote from Mr. Pound was in regards to asking athletes "have you … Read More

“Non-Denatured” Protein

Just finished having an interesting conversation about denatured proteins.

Apparently, some supplement companies are marketing their protein powders as "non-denatured", and are implying that their competitors are selling denatured (and therefore useless) protein.

The theory is that our bodies cannot … Read More

More on Fast Food…

I received a comment today that went as follows….

" No one ever looks at the breakdown, but many of the smaller hamburgers, no fries, no sugar drink have a halfway decent nutrition profile, and a person with a healthy … Read More

Haitus Over!

After an extremely busy last couple of weeks I’m back ‘up and running’.

I’ve got some great news concerning my new book that I will be sharing in the next couple days.

BP

PS- For those of you who are … Read More

Deconstructing Nutrition

For the next couple weeks I will be posting about the idea of “Deconstructing Nutrition”.

My plan is to take many of the things that we believe to be the known facts of nutrition and check their accuracy against the … Read More