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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.
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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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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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