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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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….
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Food Noise Isn’t Hunger — and Why Broccoli Never Fixed the Brain Food noise does not announce itself politely. Instead, it hums in the background, persistent and exhausting. For years, patients tried to describe it. Meanwhile, medicine largely ignored it. Recently, however, GLP-1 receptor agonists forced the conversation into the open. I did not understand…
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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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Salmon isn’t a Stent: Food and Medicine
The Mediterranean Diet lowers risk, but it can’t replace statins or stents. Food helps, medicine saves, and together they’re the strongest defense
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Bananas Aren’t Beta Blockers
When Bananas Aren’t a Beta Blocker People love to believe that food can replace medicine. We talked about this in Episode One, where I explained that Hippocrates never said “let food be thy medicine.” Still, the myth endures. Food does matter. The right eating pattern can lower blood pressure. One of the best-studied is the…
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