Bread Built Civilization
Bread isn’t evil, it is responsible for civilization. But whole grain bread is best. Armies marched on it, laws were made, and the pyramids were built for it.
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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 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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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.
Read MoreKeep 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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