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OK, OK. I guess I let the cart get a little before the horse in my last entry leading to some testy reader comments. I referenced lactose intolerance before I actually wrote the article about it. Well, here's the article.I was staying in Boulder for a wedding. My girlfriend and I (now my wife) went to a Southwestern themed restaurant and I ordered red beans and rice, which I ate with hot

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I love news days like this. The two top health stories on news.google.com are about studies that throw into question the legitimacy of two major tenets of mainstream nutritional advice: avoid saturated fat and get lots of antioxidants. The first study shows that women who ate the most high fat dairy foods were protected from fertility problems whereas women who ate lots of low fat dairy

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I've just finished reading Micheal Pollan's New York Times Magazine article "Unhappy Meals". The first line of the article is, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." I couldn't agree more with his advice to "Eat Food", food being defined as anything your great-great-grandmother would have recognized as food. And it's probably good advice to not eat too much. But the last line, "Mostly

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On Nurses, Pork Fat and PotatoesDr. Walter Willett is a guy who almost gets it. The Harvard physician is maybe the most outspoken mainstream researcher in questioning the tenets of the USDA Food Pyramid. The results of his studies frequently call into question the wisdom of the dietary guidelines provided to us by the USDA, and Willett is not afraid to speak up about what he sees as flawed

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Is wheat killing us?IntroductionMaybe you've heard someone say, "Well, in Asian countries they eat low fat diets and they don't have many heart attacks." This is mainly, mostly true. But interestingly, "The China Study", a recently published book by T. Colin Campbell, a leading researcher into diet and disease in China has one chapter about heart disease and it doesn't even MENTION China. How

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Our National Bird?"You don't get an eagle by merging two turkeys." -- Tom PetersPerhaps not, but then why would you want to? Turkeys are beautiful, charismatic, inquisitive, delicious birds. Can you say the same thing about the glorified vulture that we call the bald eagle? True enough, turkeys have gained a reputation for stupidity, but anyone who's really gotten to know them knows that

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The Axis of ParadoxWe are constantly being told to avoid "artery clogging" saturated fats, found in delicious foods like butter, eggs, cheese, pork and beef. It's for our health, they say. That's a problem for me, since I have a chest freezer full of beef and pork that I raised. I had steak (grassfed) and eggs (free range) for breakfast. But I'm not worried.Most of you reading this have

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