January 5, 2010
by hollie
In The News
The Dr. Oz website has a whole section on raw foods, called The Raw Food Challenge, designed to help you transition to a raw foods diet. I’m floored. After the last few years of listening to mainstream news talk about how crazy those raw foodists are (It’s all an eating disorder! Enzymes aren’t necessary!), here’s [...]
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November 21, 2009
by hollie
In The News
According to Loren Cordain’s blog:
Milk elevates insulin as much as white bread. Constantly elevating plasma insulin levels may lead to insulin resistance, which is at the root of several metabolic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes or hypertension.
Hmmmm. Does that seem odd to you? Being lactose intolerant myself and a vegan groupie, I don’t [...]
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Aussies come up with a great food show
June 10, 2009 by hollie Deep and Meaningful CommentaryIn Australia there’s a new show called Food Investigators. The episodes are free to watch online for 30 days after they air. I’m currently watching episode 4, which you can find on this Episode Guide. It talks about “functional foods”, or foods that are enriched with various things to make them more nutritionally sound, like [...]