Gluten Free

October 8, 2010
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Gluten Free

The term “gluten” comes from the Latin for “glue” and gluten is protein that makes wheat and other grains so great for cooking. You cannot have great bread that will rise without gluten or this glue that holds the grains together. Other grains such as rice can be made into breads, but they don’t have the consistency and light airy quality that bread that contain gluten have. While gluten has its bad side (for people who are sensitive to it), it also has a good side. Farmers and food scientists actually engineered wheat to have more gluten because they thought...

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Sugar Free Diet for Diabetics

October 2, 2010
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Sugar Free Diet for Diabetics

If you ask most medical doctors or even established associations such as the American Diabetes Association (see Diabetes Myths) you will find that they think that eating sugar has nothing to do with diabetes. To most people it seems mind bogglingly simple to connect a sugar control problem (diabetes) with eating too much sugar but the medical community just can’t seem to make that leap. For the rest of us that live on planet reality it is obvious that eating sugar can cause diabetes. How do we know that? Because humans that don't have access to purified white sugar or...

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Real Health Care Reform

February 3, 2010
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Real Health Care Reform

I don't know about you, but I have yet to see anything remotely resembling health care reform in any of the proposals coming out of congress these last few months. What I do see is a waste of resources and a continuation of the same old broken health care thinking that only leads to more disease, more illness, and more expense. The crazy thing about all the hoopla surrounding the health care debate is that the way we approach health care has to change. Really, it HAS to change. Either we change our health care system or we are going bankrupt.

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30 Sugar Free Days, Part Deux

December 5, 2009
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This year marks the second annual 30 Sugar Free Days Program and your chance to make January a MONTH WITHOUT SUGAR. It is that time of year again: The Season of Sugar. As the weather turns colder, and the sun dips lower in the sky (except for you south of the equator), the days get darker, and we all get incredible sugar cravings. Our collective lust for sugar is only fueled by the multiple invitations to gather with friends and family and the tendency of office workers around the world to bring plates of tasty treats to share with everyone. Too...

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Allergic to Everything, Part Two

November 24, 2009
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Allergic to Everything, Part Two

There is a food trap that some people fall in to where the number of foods that they feel that they can eat slowly dwindles down to almost nothing. I’m going to suggest to you that this problem doesn’t make you crazy, but it is largely your brain’s fault (or maybe it is better described as your genes fault).

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Calcium Myths

September 23, 2009
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Calcium Myths

There are many reasons why you might want to consider removing milk and milk products from your diet. Studies are starting to show just what kind of negative impact our love affair with the cow has on our health and even on our bones. When I suggest to people that they stop milk, I can almost guarantee that the next thing out of their mouths is, “yes, but where do I get my calcium?” There response speaks to the power, effectiveness, and tragedy (for our health) of advertising.

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