At times you may think of yourself as a party-of-one but, in fact, you are never really alone. At any given time, you have over 100 trillion microbial cells living in your gut. This bacterial community is called the gut microbiota and contains ten…
Food is a medicine that we need to take every day. Food can prevent, treat and even reverse disease. Improving your diet can help fight obesity, diabetes, arthritis, metabolic syndrome, heart disease, depression and reduce cancer. The United States Department of Agriculture’s 2005 Dietary…
You may wonder about the cost of adding more organic or locally grown fruits and vegetables into your diet. Currently, Americans are spending less than 10% of their income on food, at a time when healthcare costs are skyrocketing. Many of us try to…
What are we eating? Our diet has changed profoundly over the last 10,000 years, with a more accelerated rate of change over the last hundred years. There is a disconnect between what we’re putting in our bodies as nutrition and what our bodies are…
Who pays the bills? The food industry has become big business. Much like the pharmaceutical industry, it’s another type of big Farma. There are so many recommendations regarding food choices, it’s become difficult to distinguish facts from fads. In fact, for every $1 spent on…