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Last week I talked about fat—body fat—why it’s bad and what you can do about it, which raises a question about weight loss supplements. Will they give you a short-cut to getting rid of that fat, inside or outside? Can they help you or are they a waste of money? Worse yet, can they harm […]
Our pretend daughter Jamie slow-cooked a roast for Memorial Day, and it was delicious, the best she’s ever done. She does them very well to begin with, so what made this one so good? Fat. It was a chuck roast. What made it so good was not the fat that you could see, it was […]
What’s lurking under your abdominal muscles, in and around your liver and other internal organs? Undercover fat, actually called intra-abdominal or visceral fat. It’s dangerous because visceral fat is more metabolically active and increases the risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes among other diseases. What does “metabolically active” mean? Primarily, this fat makes […]
When I spot a headline like that, I have to click on it to see what they’re talking about. And I usually end up disappointed because it’s about some product to help you lose belly fat. What about the sit-up claim? They say doing crunches or sit-ups or leg lifts will make the muscle under […]
When we think of the microbiome, it’s logical to think only of the digestive system and our skin. In reality, the microbiome includes every microbe in and on our entire body, including our lungs. At one time, the lungs were thought to be microbe free; that certainly seemed to be the case for newborns. As […]
A Cherokee legend talks of two wolves inside us, one good and one evil. Which one will win? The one you feed. It applies to our microbiome as well. We have good and bad microbes within us at all times. Which ones dominate? It depends on how we feed them. In a recent study, researchers […]
Researchers used gnotobiotic mice in a recent study to test the importance of fiber; gnotobiotic mice are born with no bacteria of any type. Researchers used a synthetic human microbiome to introduce a bacteria colony into the mice. Once the colony was established, they withheld fiber from the diet of the mice. Then it gets […]
There are two strategies that you can use to control your intake of processed foods. The first is the simplest yet the most difficult, especially if it’s something you really love to eat: Don’t buy it. If it’s not in the house, you can’t eat it. Whenever I tell that to someone, the next words […]
If you do an Internet search for processed foods, you’ll get a whole lot of opinions on why they’re a bad thing. There isn’t a substantial amount of research behind the opinions when you look closely. In fact, there isn’t a substantial amount of research on processed foods at all and why they’re difficult to […]
If there’s one question that frustrates all of us, including myself at times, it’s “Why can’t I stop eating ____?” For me, it’s salty and crunchy such as nuts and chips. For others, it’s refined carbohydrates such as baked goods, or sweets such as chocolate or cookies. Why can’t we just stop eating them? Why […]
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