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A Closer Look at “My Plate”
Official USDA My Plate Graphic Those of us who watched the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Review Committee process were bemused to see the way they chose to deal with their predecessors’ obvious policy...
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Nutrition Updates by Merinda Teller, MPH, PhD Red Meat: The Food They Love to Hate In late October 2015, one of the nutrition establishment’s most cherished villains—red meat—hit the newsstands again...
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Folic Acid and Glyphosate
Synergistic Toxicity Neural tube defects (NTDs), such as spina bifida, anencephaly and exencephaly, are severe birth defects that result from failure of neural folds closure during embryonic...
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Saturated Fat Does a Body Good
Exploring the Biological Roles of These Long-Demonized Yet Heroic Nutrients Since the rise of the diet-heart hypothesis in the 1960s, the idea that saturated fat is the “bad fat” has dominated the...
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Hilda Gore: I’m your host Hilda Labrada Gore. And today our guest is the president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Sally Fallon Morell. Sally’s book Nourishing Traditions came out in 1996 and has...
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The Scarlet Nutrient
The Unfair Stigmatization of Vitamin A If you take a prenatal vitamin, look on the label to see whether it contains vitamin A (some brands actually don’t contain any vitamin A), it will probably...
View ArticleWhy We Need Carbs
One of the lessons that comes across most clearly from the studies that Weston Price documented in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration is that, although traditional diets all emphasized nutrient-dense...
View ArticleSalt Intake in the U.S.
CDC Advocating a Dangerous Reduction On June 1, 2016, U.S. health officials announced a new set of recommendations regarding the salt content of processed foods. The stated goal is to help Americans...
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Harnessing the Nutrients for Modern Use Yeast microbes may be the earliest domesticated organisms. Since very early times humans have used yeasts for fermentation, one of the oldest and most successful...
View ArticleThe Problem With Protein Powders
Pick up any bodybuilding magazine and you will find pages of ads for protein powders; or visit any health food store and note the containers of these powders. Typically such establishments feature a...
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