This documentary was filmed in 2015 by PBS and journalist Michael Pollan based on his book of the same name and is in much of its advice just as, if not more relevant today. In Defense of Food explores the question - What should I eat to be healthy?Summarized in seven words, his advice: “Eat …
The Great Plant-Based Con – Why Eating a Plants-Only Diet Won’t Improve Your Health or Save the Planet
Plant-based is best for health, go vegan to help save the planet, eat less meat... Almost every day we are bombarded with the seemingly incontrovertible message that we must reduce our consumption of meat and dairy - or eliminate them from our diets altogether. But what if the pervasive message that the plant-based diet will …
Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food
Dr. Robert Lustig, whose 2009 lecture "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" which has received over 13 million views so far, has always been passionately vocal about his opinion of the processed food industry.He has released two previous books, "Fat Chance" and "The Hacking of the American Mind." But in this book, he breaks things down into …
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Reversing Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Through Low-Carb Nutrition – Dr. Terry Wahls
After three years of a low-carb/ketogenic diet to reverse type 2 diabetes, I am constantly amazed by emerging news of many other incredible stories of its effects on other conditions, one of which is highlighted here with the miraculous story of Dr Terry Wahls, a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College …
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Let Them Eat Dirt – Why Dirt & Microbes Could Be Good for Us
Have we become too clean? Brett Finlay discusses whether we have taken our war on germs a step too far, the research on tailored diets to address diabetes and obesity, fecal transplants for IBS, how microbes play a part in atherosclerosis, heart disease, strokes, depression, body odour, even jet lag. The gut-brain axis, autism, ADHD, …
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Food In England by Dorothy Hartley
With so much nutrition science evolving virtually every day, I am constantly disturbed by the fact that when it comes to what we put in our mouths, we have clearly lost our way. The work of the Weston A Price Foundation, dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet and the Paleo or hunter/gatherer way …
Coming Soon – The Big Fat Lie Movie
BIG FAT LIE is a documentary that will change the way you think about dietary fats. Narrated by Dr. Mark Hyman. Please support this important film http://bit.ly/BFL_Indiegogo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IRdbgCc5LM The film takes its title from an article in New York Times Magazine by journalist Gary Taubes, writer, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories, Why We Get Fat: …
The Vitamin Formally Known As Activator X
A missing ingredient that research is finally exposing as deficient in the Western diet due to the vilification of such foods as eggs, cheese and liver as part of the unproven saturated fat hypothesis is Vitamin K2 which is found in abundance in such foods and also fermented foods which have declined since the introduction …
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Salt – A Crucial Electrolyte
For over forty years doctors have told us that consuming salt increases blood pressure, but according to Dr James DiNicolantonio in his book The Salt Fix there was never any sound scientific evidence to support this idea. Dr DiNicolantonio says that the World Health Organisation and the UK and US advisory bodies on diet have …
The Art Of Fermentation – Sandor Katz
When I began the low carb journey over two years ago, the main goal was an attempt to reverse diabetes. So far, with the help of the research, knowledge, dedication and unwavering commitment to reveal the truth about nutrition from those Magnificent Seven*, it seems to have had a miraculous effect with the added bonus …
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