Nutrition

Humans really need fats or carbohydrates as fuel, protein as kind of the building block and in order to create the ideal bio-chemistry, the ideal chemical engine in a human, you want to have fat or carbohydrate, I’d argue that […]

The healthy user bias is such an important point to note that, when we’re looking at epidemiology studies, in these observational studies we always need to consider the possibility that, whether we’re looking at increased consumption of fruits and vegetables […]

If you look at the nutrient bio-availability in plants, it’s very poor. People may say that spinach has folate, but generally if you look at the B vitamins in plants they’re only about 30% as bio-available as B vitamins in […]

70% of people’s calories in the USA come from grains, sugar and industrial seed oils. Note, that none of those three things contain any nutrition of any kind, other than calories. In the case of sugar it’s empty calories. In […]

It’s just dirty reporting and it’s dirty science with an agenda in mind and they’re trying to push an agenda with these studies and the public is really mislead because if you look at it, there are plenty of interventional […]

A study called ‘Stopping or Reducing Dietary Fiber Intake Reduces Constipation and it’s Associated Symptoms’ was done in 2012, with 16 male and 47 female patients. The 63 patients were split into 3 groups; there was a zero fiber group, […]

The fiber story began with a guy named Burkitt, he compared the pattern of diseases in African hospitals to western diseases in the 1950’s and 60’s. So the story of fiber begins with this guy named Denis Burkitt who was […]

Food contacts your body every day, it’s the thing that comes in the most, yes you breathe some air and this and that, but food is DIRECT CONTACT with your body, it’s the one thing we can affect the most […]

Kelly Hogan was unable to have children until she went on a zero carb diet, and so it gave her back her fertility. We can use fertility as a measure of health too, so the more fertile you are it […]

Protein can inhibit ketosis at a certain level, but I don’t think it’s because the protein itself is sending some kind of signal to say ‘let’s make more sugar.’ It’s not directly causing gluconeogenesis, I think what’s happening is that […]