If you listen to all the so-called experts on nutrition, we can't eat anything. But here's the good news. We can at least drink one thing, water. Nobody argues against water itself, although some of the experts tell us that it has to be filtered and we shouldn't buy bottled water because it's not well tested and all those bottles are bad for the... Read more
For more than a quarter of a century whenever I would mention coffee, a good friend of mine would smugly comment, "I don't do drugs." The caffeine in coffee is, of course, a stimulant drug. But he didn't know that he does use a drug, one that is even more common than caffeine.My friend didn't realize that the wheat bread and other grains that he... Read more
Raw foodists might be happy to see some of what Dr. Richard Wrangham writes in Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. This book, which came out just this year, is one of the most stimulating reads I've ever found."Raw-foodism is a good way to lose weight," Dr. Wrangham writes. He is a professor of... Read more
Few of us count the calories, carbohydrates, fat, and protein that we eat. It is just too complicated and time consuming. And when we eat out, we can’t know for sure just how much anything weighs.
But unless we go to the trouble of counting what we consume we can’t do a good job of controlling our blood glucose levels and lose... Read more
Like Polly, people sometimes want a cracker. Sometimes we even need a cracker to serve ourselves or our guests some great dips. Even people who control their diabetes on a very low carb diet sometimes want a cracker. But almost all the crackers you can find either have too many carbs or taste terrible. Until recently the only low-carb crackers... Read more
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