How Often Does Your Gut Want You to Eat?
We have 6,000 thoughts a day, on average, during our waking hours. About 40 minutes of those waking hours are spent thinking about food. Not
We have 6,000 thoughts a day, on average, during our waking hours. About 40 minutes of those waking hours are spent thinking about food. Not
Individualized healthcare is finally receiving the attention it deserves from the Western medical institution – and for good reason. No two people experience life the same
We’re not exactly at war… And so there haven’t been rules about food intake per household, like the last time there were rations. While mainstream
Maybe, before this all happened, your schedule was so hectic that you only dreamt of meal-planning or home-cooked meals. Maybe, before all this, you had
We’ve talked about intuitive eating, and the importance of breaking your fast by eating in the morning. But as several diligent readers have pointed out…
You can’t have missed the great toilet paper shortage of 2020. Well, that’s not all we seem to be “short” on. Rice, eggs, milk, bread,
Even holistic health advocates can barely keep up with health food news. And for good reason – those waters can get really murky. Is avocado
Nobody could afford coconut oil during the war in the 1940s. Although it had been used in European and American, not to mention Caribbean and
A diet is a diet is a diet, right?
Sort of…
A diet is just the class and kind of food that makes up your daily consumption
From the very first time that your mother admonished your grandmother for letting you have a bunch of candy when you were under her care,
We have 6,000 thoughts a day, on average, during our waking hours. About 40 minutes of those waking hours are spent thinking about food. Not
Individualized healthcare is finally receiving the attention it deserves from the Western medical institution – and for good reason. No two people experience life the same
We’re not exactly at war… And so there haven’t been rules about food intake per household, like the last time there were rations. While mainstream
Maybe, before this all happened, your schedule was so hectic that you only dreamt of meal-planning or home-cooked meals. Maybe, before all this, you had
We’ve talked about intuitive eating, and the importance of breaking your fast by eating in the morning. But as several diligent readers have pointed out…
You can’t have missed the great toilet paper shortage of 2020. Well, that’s not all we seem to be “short” on. Rice, eggs, milk, bread,
Even holistic health advocates can barely keep up with health food news. And for good reason – those waters can get really murky. Is avocado
Nobody could afford coconut oil during the war in the 1940s. Although it had been used in European and American, not to mention Caribbean and
A diet is a diet is a diet, right?
Sort of…
A diet is just the class and kind of food that makes up your daily consumption
From the very first time that your mother admonished your grandmother for letting you have a bunch of candy when you were under her care,
Apology languages aren’t native to most of us. And although we’ve gotten into them before, knowing in which direction to skew an apology isn’t the
Most of us (around 100 million, at least) know how much we’re willing to pay for thoughtless convenience — about $120 a year.
That’s what Amazon charges for its Prime service at last count. In case you’ve been untouched by the creepy, instant, and isolating reach of Prime’s witchy long-reaching fingers, here are a few of their prime-ary benefits:
Shipping as fast as 2-day, 1-day, and in some cases 2-hour
Prime Video privileges
Whole Foods Market 2-hour delivery in select cities
AmazonFresh meal kit delivery
Prime Wardrobe service — sending you fashion pieces to try-before-you-buy and mail back if you don’t want them
Prime Pantry household essentials delivery
Are you noticing an emerging pattern?
When Hippocrates famously said, “All disease begins in the gut,” he likely had no idea how right he was.
For example, could he have known that the gut contains 10 times more bacteria responsible for regulating your health than the rest of the body?
Or that the bacterial transfer that occurs at birth affects the diversity of your microbiome (collection of gastro-intestinal bacteria in the digestive tract) for life?
Is it possible that he knew the root cause of bacteria destruction in the gut flora also weakens the gut barrier and leads to leaky gut, diverticulitis, and other disorders?
Maybe not. But he was on the right track.
Picture huge, industrialized fields of waving wheat and corn and soy in the American midwest. That’s about the size of our collective understanding of where
If the last book you read to completion was a manual, or a high school book report assignment on The Invisible Man, you’re one in