Soup: The Mediterranean Diet in a Bowl
Soup may be the Mediterranean diet in a bowl. Discover why every civilization invented it, how it improves food safety, reduces waste, and tastes even better tomorrow.
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How Cooking Made Us Human
Fire didn’t just change dinner. It changed us. If I asked you what made us human, you might say language. Or tools. Maybe agriculture. All of those changed our species, but I think one discovery came even earlier—and it may have been the most important of all. Fire. Not because it kept us warm. Not…
Read MoreDid the Food Pyramid Make America Fat?
Real Pyramids are more fun If you read some low-carb sites, or Gary Taub’s books, you will find the contention that the food pyramid – the last one being in 2011 – put America into a low fat, high carb diet responsible for today’s obesity. That the government food pyramid misled a generation of people,…
Read MoreThe Scientists Who Built the Modern Snack
How We Eat Most of us think we know what we eat. However, nutrition researchers have learned a frustrating lesson over the years: asking people what they ate yesterday is often less accurate than anyone would like. Although food diaries and surveys can provide useful information, memories are imperfect, snacks are easily forgotten, and portion…
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Why Food Became Engineered to Defeat You
The food system was not engineered to make you obese. It was a result of natural selection at a grocery store. Truth is we need engineered foods
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Being a Foodie on a GLP-1
Why GLP-1 Made Me Love Food More—Not Less From beetroot pasta to backyard salsa, this wasn’t about eating less. It was about finally tasting more. I want to tell you about two people on a GLP-1. First, there’s me. I’ve been on a maintenance dose—7.5 mg of Zepbound—for a while now. And recently, I went…
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Ultra Processed Food: The Enemy?
Ultra-Processed Food: Making Sense of the Madness Ultra-processed food has become the villain of modern nutrition.Scroll through social media, and you’ll hear that it’s poisoning us, wrecking our gut, and driving the obesity epidemic all by itself. At the same time, other voices dismiss the entire idea as fear-mongering.According to them, processing doesn’t matter at…
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