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Here is a product that hit my junk bin on social media, which I found very curious (and quite disgusting) upon further examination. It is now added to my top-of-the-line junk foods list to be avoided!
Take a look at the advertisement: No artificial colors. No added sugars, no erythritol, no preservatives, no artificial colors, and no synthetics.
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With the release of new dietary guidelines (check out my deep dive on that here) a new high-protein craze has taken the public by storm—especially the ultra-processed-food (UPF) manufacturers. To be clear, “craze” isn’t necessarily a bad thing—protein is vital for health—but the haste with which people are grabbing anything labeled “high protein” is concerning.
Context is everything. When it comes to your health, the most important question isn’t just how much protein you’re getting, but what on earth are you eating to get that protein?!
If you eat a donut pumped with a high-protein filling, is it a health food? No. It’s still an UPF.
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The new DGA (Dietary Guidelines for Americans) was released a few days ago. Everyone is talking about beans these days! People want to eat beans! Why do they, might you ask? Because of the many years of misinformation campaign! And because the new DGA reduced the amount recommended.
Continue readingI just returned from a wonderful 2-week trip to Africa. I was an invited speaker to present on the topic of migraine in a conference, the World Nutrition Summit 2025, in Cape Town, South Africa. After the conference, my husband and I flew to Zimbabwe and Botswana for an additional week of the most amazing experience. I am sharing some pictures and videos for you to enjoy at the end of this article—here just one, my favorite time with two cheetahs—they are trained, not sedated.
Picture of me with two cheetahs. It was an amazing experience walking and caressing these amazing creatures!
When we arrived in Zimbabwe, the world changed from a quite familiar civilized world of Cape Town, to something very strange. In a lovely (5*) hotel, which had no TV though had WIFI, in a room without internal walls with a double shower without curtains, we woke in the morning to monkeys jumping on the roof from a couple of trees in front of our balcony (these were 1-story attached “huts”). It was quite surreal. The following day I discovered that on the other side of the electric fence, a stone throw from my glass sliding door, wild animals—elephants, zebras, lions, warthogs, cheetahs, mongooses, ostriches, giraffes, etc.,—could be expected to pop up anywhere, at any time. It was the most amazing and exhilarating experience. It isn’t like we were “in nature” but somehow nature was “in” our room.
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As defined by its authors, EAT-Lancet is a “new evidence-based insight on nutrition and human health, within safe and just planetary boundaries”. Once I crossed everything out that it is not true, this is what remains: “Eat-Lancet is a new insight within planetary boundaries”. There is absolutely nothing evidence-based in what they present, nothing focuses on true human health and nutrition, and nothing is safe and just. Let me hammer the Eat-Lancet 2.0 into a heap of dust by discussing some of its main tenets.
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Do you eat foods rich in fiber? Why? Chances are, you are eating a fiber-rich diet because you have been told repeatedly it is healthy and essential, and you may have even heard something about the gut-brain connection and that it is very important to keep your gut in good health. But have you ever asked why your gut would need something that is not food? After all, your gut is the center for digestion and nutrient absorption of the foods you eat. Therefore, everything you eat is assumed to be digested and absorbed, yet most fiber is indigestible, and no fiber of any kind has nutrients for your body to absorb.
So why are we told to eat fiber? And is the need for fiber really true?
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We live in a world where all information must be scrutinized very carefully. Unfortunately, not everyone has access to all the information necessary to make evaluative studies and comparisons. There is a market to sell anything and everything (see my previous articles on grounding and sugar as examples). There are particularly few sources of unbiased truth on the matter of nutrition. My blog has been aiming to be one of these sources for over a decade.
This time I am biting into a huge toxic subject: plant antioxidants.
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“Grounding,” also called “earthing,” is the belief that by physically connecting to the Earth (e.g., walking barefoot or using conductive mats), your body absorbs electrons from the Earth that neutralize oxidative stress, inflammation, and “imbalances” in charge. Advocates claim it improves sleep, mood, and pain. But these claims have no basis in physics, physiology, or credible scientific research.
In electrical engineering, “grounding” refers to creating a reference voltage (typically 0 Volt) by connecting a circuit to the Earth. This allows excess charge to safely discharge, protecting electrical systems—not biological ones. The human body, which is full of conductive salt water, does not need this type of discharge for health. We do not accumulate “excess positive charge” that must be bled off through our feet. Read: Plonsey, R., & Barr, R. C. (2007). Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach (https://a.co/d/8xekdqF)
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Protein is discussed everywhere these days. One of the questions is whether the protein consumed will be usable as protein by our body. After all, eating an avocado won’t remain or be used as an avocado in our body. Foods change in our stomach to a mush (chyme), that is unrecognizable. What about protein? How is protein used by our body? And how much of it should we eat for health and strength?
I have frequently been criticized for the amount of protein consumption I support. I am a proponent of a high animal protein diet, not necessarily carnivore (an animal product only diet) but in large part animal based. I am also often challenged to explain why I believe that eating a lot of animal protein is the right thing to do since there is so much noise about how protein, specifically animal protein, is bad for us. How come I still recommend eating so much meat? There are plenty of blogs and academic articles claiming that meat causes various cancers.
Let me start by explaining what protein is, what it does, how much we need to eat and why, then I describe some of the misinformation around between animal and plant protein, the amount needed for health, and the cancer connection. Buckle up! This will be a bumpy ride!
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Traditional nutrition guidelines emphasize calorie counting as the key to weight management. The concept of “calories in, calories out” (CICO) suggests that weight gain or loss is dictated solely by energy balance. However, real-world observations reveal that two individuals consuming drastically different caloric-content diets can experience opposite and unexpected, quite counterintuitive, metabolic effects: one may lose weight while consuming 3,000 kcal of animal-based food, while another gain weight on just 800 kcal of a mixed Standard American Diet (SAD) or a plant-based diet.
The stark contrast in metabolic outcomes highlights the fundamental flaws of the calorie model and underscores the importance of macronutrient composition, hormonal regulation, and metabolic flexibility. In this article, we’ll explore the physiological and biochemical mechanisms driving these differences.
I am writing this article because I see so many exercise gurus and strength training experts (even in my family!) push Calorie-Counting (known as CICO) as a way to encourage their clients to lose weight, but it rarely ever works and makes people very frustrated. In fact, reducing the Calories one eats may easily backfire and make them gain weight!
In this article I disentangle a very complicated subject into small bits of information you can understand.
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