I have a simple idea to improve your health: Stop paying Big Food to kill you. This is not hyperbole. As new research is revealing, chronic health conditions like diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, and high blood pressure combined with Covid-19 means a death sentence for many.
Read MoreEvery year I interview dozens of biologists, chemists, toxicologists, and microbiologists doing groundbreaking research on the biological effects of the foods and chemicals that go into our bodies every day.I am alarmed.
Read More“All kids are picky eaters.” Or so says the food industry. But is it true? Babies and children learn to like the foods their parents eat. If you eat a whole-foods, nutrient-dense diet and feed your baby those foods, she will like them too. It’s that simple. Avoid “baby-foods” and “kid-food” and your baby will grow to be a child and adult who loves real food.
Read MoreThis version of banana bread is made with whole grain flour and sweetened with maple syrup and bananas — you don’t miss the white flour or sugar at all!
Read MoreIt’s a common sight: a baby drinking out of a plastic bottle, a toddler drinking from a plastic sippy cup or a fruit squeeze pack— but most parents think nothing of it. That is especially true now that these bottles, cups, and packaging are labeled BPA-Free.
Read MoreIt’s never too late to start eating well—but it’s especially true that it’s never too early. Eating a whole-food, nutrient-dense diet while pregnant and breastfeeding is crucial for setting up your child’s life-long health. Researchers found that flavors in the amniotic fluid and then in breast milk transfer to the baby in an education process that tells the baby what foods are safe and preferred by her mother.
Read MoreThe most current research suggests that when we subvert the processes of childbirth and breast-feeding, we sabotage the development of the microbiota. A compromised microbiota also seems to promote inflammation, which begins in the gut and then spreads throughout the body, whether in the arteries or heart, the joints, or the brain.
Read MoreIs it food? Should you eat it? Should your kid eat it? Don’t you wish you had someone, anyone, you could ask, “Can I eat this?” Ask me. It defies logic that my approach to eating -- simple whole food, real food -- is considered a radical approach.
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