October 23, 2009 Way back in the ’30s, as Sally Fallon writes, Dr. Weston Price identified 14 isolated villages around the world in which almost every resident was free of chronic disease. Dr. Price found that when villagers moved away and switched to the Western diet of refined carbohydrates and devitalized fats and oils, bad […]

October 16, 2009 Consumers are routinely head-faked when it comes to beef. Almost all cattle (nearly 100%) spend some time on grass. But if cattle are also fed corn, a vegetarian diet of grains, or worst of all, animal by-products, then such cattle should not be labeled grass-fed. If cattle are not finished on grass, […]

October 9, 2009 Polyunsaturated oils contribute to increased cancer and heart disease, weight gain, digestive disorders, and immune-system dysfunction. And most American diets are overloaded with them. Polyunsaturated oils tend to become rancid or oxidized in cooking. Rancid oils are characterized by free radicals, which can damage cells in the body. Fast-food chains’ commercial polyunsaturated […]

October 2, 2009 They protect your liver from the nasty side effects of certain drugs as well as from the toxic effects of alcohol. They are saturated fats. Did you know that saturated fatty acids constitute over 50% of cell membranes? Also, saturated fats may actually enhance the immune system while lowering Lp(a), a substance […]

September 25, 2009 My inference reading brings to surface the prospect of a war breaking out over water! Sure, the earth has a lot of water, but most of it is oceanic salt water. Perhaps as little as 1% of the earth’s water is suitable for human consumption, and the more I read, the more […]

September 18, 2009 Back in the days when the buffalo roamed over vast grasslands, corn was wind-pollinated and self-fertilized. In order to maintain today’s corn- and antibiotic-stuffed feedlot cattle, farmers must buy new corn seeds every year. Today’s corn farmers are part of the industrial food chain. As Michael Pollan writes in his book The […]

September 11, 2009 Your key to a healthy heart is consuming a proper daily balance of the two families of essential fatty acids-omega-6s and omega-3s. Consuming regular servings of fatty fish, such as tuna, wild king salmon, and anchovy, is a start. I take two daily capsules of Nordic Naturals Ultimate Omega, which contains fish […]

August 28, 2009 Free-range chickens are the way to go, right? Well, not exactly. You see, there are, on egg cartons, no laws or government standards regulating the use of the terms “free-range” or “free-walk”. Farmers can simply tack on a “free-range” designation at their discretion. The USDA plays real loose with its standards. All […]

August 21, 2009 Salmonella, E. Coli, and campylobacter, we now know, are found primarily in meat. James E. McWilliams tells us in his book Just Food that “most feed lot cattle today have E. Coli lining their intestines.” Mr. McWilliams further informs us that manure in feed lots “poses an especially messy problem for public […]