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There’s a serious problem, internationally, with bees — it’s called “colony collapse disorder,” where whole colonies of bees just die off. Since bees are the principal pollinators of a tremendous variety of important human foods, we would all be up the creek without a paddle if bees [...]

Recently, there’s been a spate of articles (for instance, this one) claiming that for some, the “obsession” with consuming healthy food has increased our anxiety, pushing some of our kids into eating disorders, and generally taking the fun out of life. While I don’t doubt that a few people use dietary information to make [...]

When I was growing up — and I am probably dating myself here — we were taught that the key to healthy eating was knowing the four food groups — meats, grains, produce, and dairy, if I remember rightly.
We’ve evolved our understanding of nutrition, and the four food groups have long been replaced. Our behavior, [...]

The New York Times today carried an article by Tara Parker-Pope called “Obama’s New Chef Skewers School Lunches.” (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/new-white-house-chef-skewers-school-lunches/) She quotes extensively from an excellent address Sam Kass (the chef) gave last May. If you’re new to this issue, I recommend the article – actually a blog post — as a good place to [...]

People tell me, “fruits and vegetables are SO expensive!” Well, yes, they are.
But for processed food, of fast food, of calorie-dense, low-nutrition food, the costs are higher than they appear. The damage to one’s immune system, the accelerated aging caused by oxidative stress, the daily low-level misery and fatigue, high blood pressure, diabetes, [...]

To feel reasonably sure that they have correctly lined up cause and effect, scientists need to reduce the number of variables in their studies.  In biochemical work, this generally means working each experiment with one nutrient at a time. It has proven to be a fallacy to take the results of these simple studies and [...]

Probably you’ve seen the ad campaign that strives to make high-fructose corn syrup acceptable to the American public as just another sweetener. I’ve been wondering about that for some time. Recently my friend Dr. Deborah McKay, N.D. turned me on to some alarming articles linking increased fructose consumption with a host of [...]

Many people discover a world of new energy when they add a whole lot of green vegetables and fresh fruit to their diet every day, especially when the produce is fresh and raw, possibly juiced.  I’ve heard stories of improved sleep, waking refreshed, not experiencing an afternoon “low.”  Just adding produce  doesn’t work to [...]