Imagine you built a house with only a few unsupported boards as its foundation. How stable is that house? Would you move into the upper floors? If you were brave enough to do so, do you think you’d be in for a rude awakening one day when the whole thing collapsed beneath you?  How many […]

If a diet really worked, you’d do it once and never have to do it again, right? This is a short post to remind you that the diet and diet book industry are multi billion dollar businesses. In case you missed it, that’s billion with a “b”. 9 zeros. The diet industry is taking your […]

Many of our food fears are just beliefs about food. We don’t even know why we believe what we believe. A belief is just an idea that has been repeated over and over again. Sadly, because the medical field is quite separate from the nutrition field, your doctor, whom you may trust inherently, might have given you very specious nutritional advice. Or the news offered you something in a sound bite. Or some trainer at the gym. We develop our ideas about what is good for us from a piecemeal compilation of information that comes from people who probably don’t know much about the subject.