For years, the Western world demonized coconut oil for supposedly increasing cholesterol and causing heart attacks, even using full-page newspaper ads to do so. It turned out that the soybean industry used this advertising ploy of dissing the
Olive oil has become very popular over the past few decades. It is recommended by health gurus of every description. Why has interest in olive oil skyrocketed? Extra virgin olive oil is popular for two main reasons.
First,
May I digress for a moment to give you a bit of the history of my involvement with the topic of fats and health? 1981 was only one year after I had
Been poisoned by pesticides
Fats and oils come in two completely contradictory forms. There are fats/oils that heal, and there are fats/oils that kill. The truth is that to make good choices for better health, you have to know which is which, and
Health is both a precious and a fragile gift. To unpack and to enjoy this gift, you need to know and live by, or adhere to, its principles. To maintain this gift, you need to consistently take specific actions
Are fats bad? I get that question all the time. The truth is: Fats are like people. Some are bad and some are good, based on their behavior.
Bad fats are bad. Good fats are good. Bad oils
Excess carbohydrates MUST be converted into fats, which get carried to and stored in your cells. That is the law in your body. It’s important for survival. Chronic over-consumption of carbohydrates MUST lead to fat deposits, then to overweight,
How do carbohydrates make you fat? You make or order food and eat it. By habit, you may like one or more of the following: grains, bread, flour, pasta, potatoes, fries, chips, noodles, corn, muffins, barley, yams, squash, grain-based
In every one of your body’s 60 trillion cells, you have several genes for fat burning and you also have a gene for fat production.
When they’re turned on, the genes for fat burning in your cells’ furnaces
I’m not much of a coffee drinker. Coffee, after all, is made from roasted (burned) coffee beans (and by the way, neither coffee beans nor cocoa beans are actually beans). Burning changes molecules from natural to unnatural. Any food