It's All About the Food
On August 11, I received an email from “Bert,” a 76 year old male reader wondering what kind of diet would help him lower his cholesterol so he could avoid taking a statin. Between August 11 and the 25th, Bert and I “talked” and learned …
Question “A while back you wrote about a guy who wanted to know about a diet to reduce his cholesterol. I think his name was Bert. He was a skinny guy and you helped him to fix his diet. I need that kind of help …
Question “My doctor prescribed Ozempic for my diabetes because she wants me to lose weight and I have stage 3 kidney disease. She said somebody did a study showing that the drug in Ozempic helps with kidney disease. You don’t seem to think well of …
As I may have mentioned before, no flour and no sugar is perfect. The perfect beef comes from a cow fed solely on grass. The perfect vegetable is grown organically without any chemicals. Perfection is, well, ideal but rarely absolutely necessary or sometimes even possible. …
How Does This “Growing Fat” Thing Happen? We need body fat but, as as adult in 2022, we don’t necessarily need it to grow. The human body is purposely designed to gain fat to avoid starving. Those poor humans living in caves way back when …
Adult Body Fat Should Not Grow! The fat you carry around on your body has value. Skinny is not required and could actually be detrimental. We omnivores have the ability to use carbohydrates (sugar) and fat as alternating energy (fuel) sources as circumstances warrant. In …
Seeds – Plants in Waiting So here is what we know. Plants are designed to protect themselves so they can reproduce. Animals are designed to protect themselves so they can reproduce. Reproducing requires being alive, the minimum requirement. Both plants and animals need nutrition to …
Plants Protect Themselves Why not flour? That was the question posed last week. Why does grain, most often ground into flour, frequently produce mineral deficiency in human consumers like you and me? It’s that plant protection thing that is at issue with flour. Unfortunately technology …
Why Flour? I have said it so many times in my articles and discussions. “Just cut out flour and sugar and a miracle might happen!” And I hear back from people reporting just that miracle for themselves. Sugar is, or should be, a no-brainer. So …