The Evolution of the Sweet Tooth
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,
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,
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,
The elements conspiring to rob your gut’s microbiome of its healthy bacteria have a three-fold plan:
Tamper with your digestion
Drain you of your energy
And slow down your metabolism.
Those are the effects of a standard Western diet – empty calories, ready-made meals we zap in the microwave with complex glucose chains already broken down, heavy fats, starches, high sodium…
The hallmarks of our diet choices are log-jamming our digestive tracts.
Waking up on the wrong side of the bed in 2021 is quite a different story from where you might’ve woken up if you’d been
According to the National Sleep Foundation, about 30% of adults in the United States report experiencing some form of insomnia.
Can you name any of the more than 400 metabolic processes that depend on magnesium? Considering that more than half of the U.S. population isn’t
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 Filipino, cooking for centuries, Americans lost their access to it, except at exorbitant prices. (If you’re wondering, that’s how soy was able to get such a foothold in our eating practices.)
When coconut oil reentered the market, the national food and health authorities had turned on it – they claimed it was basically lard. Coconut oil is 93% saturated fat, and during the 1950s, there wasn’t a dirtier curse word in the medical community.
We thought it clogged arteries and caused heart disease.