diets

Why You Should Eat a Plant-based Diet & How to Get Started

December 31, 2018 / 5 minutes of reading

This post is sponsored by B&W Quality Growers, the world’s largest grower and marketer of watercress. Eating a plant-based diet will improve your health. Plant-based diets are associated with lower rates of heart disease, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, certain cancers, and better cognition (1,2,3,4).  Data from vegetarians suggests plant-based diets might also be associated with a longer lifespan (5).  If you love dairy or meat, you don’t have to give up either to benefit from a plant-based diet. But you …

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All Weight Loss Diets Work

January 2, 2018 / 2 minutes of reading

Every single weight loss diet works, if you follow it. All diets help you eat fewer calories so you lose weight. So how do you choose one that is right for you? Ignore the hype from your friend who lost 20 pounds. There is no one “best” diet. Pick one you can stay on. Research shows the #1 factor that determines weight loss success and keeping the weight off: sticking to the plan.  While cutting calories is the key, some …

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In Search of the Perfect Diet

October 1, 2015 / 4 minutes of reading

I am running into more and more nutrition purists. People who think their approach to eating is absolutely perfect, free from all harmful substances, and better than any other approach to nutrition. The purist sits across from me, preaching about GMOs, pesticides, carbohydrates, gluten, processed foods and salt, talking at warp speed only to take a breather so they can sip on their organic greens drink (mixed into pH balanced water of course). Meanwhile, deep from within their soul I …

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Putting a Fork in Forks Over Knives

May 30, 2012 / 4 minutes of reading

The war over good food, bad food grew larger when Forks Over Knives hit the movie theaters in 2011. Forks Over Knives, which means “use a dinner fork instead of going under the knife (surgery for chronic diseases)” contained some good information, some misleading information and left a lot of gaps in the research. So here are my good and bad impressions of this documentary. The entire film was devoted to the supposed evils of animal based proteins. That’s right, …

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