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What Makes a Diet Good? The Second Five Principles
Interesting chart, huh? Foods are viewed as “body building” or for “energy” or as “protective”. This suggests people should eat plenty of milk, cheese, eggs, fish, and meat along with lots of lard,...
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What Makes a Diet Good? The Third Five Principles
When we were little kids at school we were taught whatever USDA food group system that was being promoted at the time. It might have been the The Basic Seven, or the The Basic Four, or the The Food...
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What Makes a Diet Good? The Final Five Principles
Your grandparents or great-grandparents or great-great-grandparents knew what a good diet was. They knew it through and through without even the slightest shade of a doubt. A good diet was what people...
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How long did people live 100 years ago?
“Of course people didn’t live long … the average life expectancy was 40 years”. How often have you heard this quote or something very similar? If you are a watcher of tv documentaries or attended...
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Will Eating Real Food Make You Live to 100?
Have you ever been told something like “Nobody lives forever” or “Everyone dies from something” when you try to suggest real food alternatives to processed foods? The implication being that you...
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Did Grandma Eat Gluten?
Take a trip thru the grocery store and you’ll find gluten-free labels everywhere! It seems gluten-free eating has arrived and everyone is doing it. The guy in the cubicle next to you’s wife cured her...
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If You Have a Chronic Illness – The Granny Plan
If you have a chronic illness you know exactly how the woman in the photo above feels. Some days you can’t get out of bed and there are many more days when, well you could but the prospect is daunting...
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We Are Asking All the Wrong Questions about Food!
My apologies in advance for the brevity and general rantiness of this post ! Crazy week but a good one, so I’m a little sleep deprived! Now I could use a little rest . It dawned on me a little while...
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Is Your Doctor a Nutrition Expert?
When you need advice on nutrition where do you go? Most of us go to the only place we feel we will receive sound, reasoned well thought out advice … our doctors! We think, well, he’s been to medical...
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Why it’s OK to Eat Dessert
I don’t know about you but I used to feel HUGELY guilty about having dessert! It wasn’t about calories, back when I was young I didn’t need to lose any weight. It just felt wrong, so wrong! All those...
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