To know what optimal mental and physical health feels like, you have to first experience the alternative. There’s no light without shade, after all. And that is the first principle of junk food therapy. Ignore all the media drivel about the New Year bringing in the New You. This isn’t the new you, it’s the real you, the one who’s been there all along, but standing in the dark.
Read more
Today, those cancers most associated with high consumption of vegetable cooking oils are those of the breast, prostate and colon. How can something so seemingly innocuous, so deeply insinuated within our food culture, be in any way involved in the development of such serious disease?
Read more
If you recently switched to a 100% plant-based diet, you can relax for quite some time. The adult liver can store enough vitamin B12 to last 1–5 years. But after that, and without “careful planning”, your health could suffer serious and irreversible damage.
Read more
Whatever the nutritional qualities of chia, you have to respect a food that manages to achieve superstar status whilst tasting of, well, nothing in particular. Milled gravel, perhaps. A food that you’d be unlikely to crave even in the throes of an extended intermittent fast.
Read more
Along with chronic diseases, something else is starting to surface, something less visible but arguably more sinister. The human brain is shrinking, as confirmed by a body of research that has been accumulating since 1988. This shrinkage — atrophy — began during the Epipaleolithic period, which was the transitional period between hunter-gathering and agriculture, and remains an ongoing phenomenon. Over the last 20,000 years, average brain size has decreased by 10%. What’s even more alarming is that the last 4,000–6,000 years have witnessed an acceleration of this atrophy.
Read more
There is plenty of iron in plant foods, but it has very low bioavailability, meaning that instead of being absorbed, most of it sails straight through you on a sea of peristaltic waves. Your blood is not the final destination of this ship.
Read more
The Guardian recently reported that 70% of the fruit and vegetables produced in the US has detectable pesticide residues on
Read more
Online Italian delicatessen Diforti has created a “Brexit Box” of Italian “essentials” to help get us through this fraught period
Read more
Forget pork scratchings, that tired old bar snack responsible for many a cracked crown. Sainsbury’s aims to blaze a trail
Read more
You don’t have to look too hard to find impressive lists of the many healing properties of a raw food diet. But you would have to look very hard to find any evidence. Instead, the evidence points to infertility, malnutrition and bone loss.
Read more
