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★ Featured Nutrition

Start Here: How to Eat

The one idea behind everything we teach about food — stop dieting, start eating for health. A plain-English door into the Nutrian approach.

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Day of Reckoning

There's a link between diet and acne.

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Supplements

Let’s start with the word itself.

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Cheats

Any food that has ever been a powder is a processed food.

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More Endless Harping On and On about Diet Again

It's not a health kick.

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Cookies

There is nothing more emotional than food.

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More Endless Harping On and On about Diet Again

It's not a health kick.

4 min read

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Recipes —

\— by which is meant the things you should do to increase the rationality, quality and/or hygiene of your life: 1.

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Dances with Polar Bears

There is no difference between animal and plant fat.

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Carbs, Inc, Etc.

Food as medicine. We already know it's a drug, but how about its ability to actually make us well?

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GI Tractate

This is just some basic stuff.

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Everything There Is to Know about Diet, Part Two

Perhaps, as is the bias of some incomparably knowledgeable authorities, a purely vegetarian diet is likely to be optimal for some large fraction of humanity.

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Everything There Is to Know about Diet, Part One

It's not as much as one might suppose.

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Everything There Is to Know about Diet, Part Two

Perhaps, as is the bias of some incomparably knowledgeable authorities, a purely vegetarian diet is likely to be optimal for some large fraction of humanity.

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Industrial Carbs

If chronically elevated insulin levels have an almost one to one correlation to excess body fat, how do we account for thin diabetics?

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The Voices in Your Cells

Maybe there's no better analogy-- ones about the same, but no better — so let's just go ahead and use it.

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Threshold Nutrition

There is a threshold level for glucose, below which insulin is benevolent.

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What To Eat

We start with common sense.

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Protein

There's quite a bit of controversy about the appropriate amount of protein required by various activity levels.

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Tonic

It is required that one use a little common sense.

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Day of Reckoning

We have little jokes, but it is serious business.

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You gonna finish that?

It's time at last to look at hunger.

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Mess Call

"Glycemic load has no long term impact on weight loss, study" So goes the headline.

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The Best Diet

If you don't eat right, well, you do it to yourself: snotty, sore throat, etc.

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Big Suppluh

All this talk about Big Pharma.

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Pulp

Juicing is not actually all that incredibly great an idea — mostly what you're getting is the carbs and some colored water — good nutrients in that, but it's only part of what should be available.

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What Carbs Are For

There are three kinds of macro nutrients, the caloric nutrients: protein, fat and carbohydrates.

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The Good with the Bad

Meat, including red meat, or bacon, or lard, seems — according to actual evidence, rather than the common bias that plagues dogmatic but non-evidentiary medical belief — to play no role in creating…

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More on the Bottom Line

The metabolism of fat people seems to run as fast or faster than that of lean people.

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Hot Calories, Cool Calories

Vegetarians burn hotter than meat-eaters, per The China Study.

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Glucose, Glycerol, Glycogen, Glycemic, Triglycerides, Thermogenesis — Too Many Dang Words That Look Alike

All calories are, by definition, thermogentic, heat-producing.

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Sick

Behold! The exotic super berry from the dripping bowels of the Amazonian Rain Jungle!

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Unexpected Fruits

Cucumbers, tomatoes, melons, pumpkins, dates, strawberries, chili peppers, allspice, eggplant, lychee nuts, pepper, rosehips — all fruits.

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More re Diet

Diet. It's so hard. It just always needs reinforcing.

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Academic Standards

The inevitability of calories.

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Diet as Alchemy

The Surgeon General's Office instructs us that "Overweight and obesity result from excess calorie consumption and/or inadequate physical activity." Oh.

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Unknowable Things

No one knows the difference between animal saturated fats and plant saturated fats.

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Some Mockery, Then Some Information

People are saying that they're feeling differently about you.

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★ Featured Nutrition

Hunger

We see them in the supermarket line, with their basket absolutely full of cakes and muffins and soda pop and fatty meats.

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Omega-3

Personal and professional experience consistently demonstrate that doing very intense exercise for many months or years without taking sufficient or sensible recovery breaks will lead to some pretty…

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Transfats

We've all heard by now that transfats are a problem.

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Obesity

Hardly anyone eats to satisfy hunger.

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Long Life, Prospering

Usually those Yahoo or Hotmail homepage health articles are pretty useless.

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