Mexican Food Is Healthy. The Taco Took the Blame.
Mexican food isn’t unhealthy — American processing is. Real tacos deliver fiber, gut health, and Mediterranean biology in a corn tortilla.
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Keep Your Poop in a Group
Why Fiber Fails to Impress—and Why That’s the Point Fiber has a public relations problem. Unlike supplements or extreme diets, fiber does not promise instant transformation. Instead, it works slowly, predictably, and quietly. Because of that, people rarely notice it when it’s doing its job well. However, that very boredom is precisely why fiber matters….
Read MoreFood Pyramid Blues: Influencers are not Scientists
When Influencers Replace Scientists, Everyone Loses Every few years, nutrition gets a makeover.First comes a new graphic.Then comes a new slogan.Soon after, we hear claims that this time, someone finally figured it all out. Recently, that makeover arrived in the form of a “reverse food pyramid” and the cheerful phrase “Eat Real Food.” On the…
Read MoreGLP-1: Eating for Long-term Health
Eating for health not weigh loss on GLP-1 medication using the Mediterranean and DASH diets.
Read MoreVegetables in the Mediterranean Diet
Vegetables are an important component of the Mediterranean Diet. They are available in every region, allowing the Mediterranean diet to be part of any cuisine.
Read MoreAre Vegetables just BS?
The “anti-nutrient” effects of plants are outweighed by benefit to the human diet. Fiber meets the criteria of an essential nutrient.
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Decreasing Cholesterol: drugs and diet
The discovery of LDL, statins and genetics led to an overall reduction in cardiac mortality. Risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure, and high blood sugars increase risk only with high LDL.
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Implementing the Mediterranean Diet – Part One
Eating a wide variety of plants is one key to health. This has been shown in multiple studies that plants provide an important protection to your body.
Read MoreMicroplastics in Fish, in Fruit, in Water
Microplastics are in our food from vegetables to fish, from meat to fruit. They are in the air we breathe, and we don’t know what harm they can do
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