Our friend Gwyneth Paltrow’s website Goop has made headlines yet again for publishing a Q and A with Tracy Mann, a PhD psychologist who admittedly has done quite a lot of great work in terms of the psychology of dieting. In the interview, Mann makes a few great points, and a few huge missteps. Like,…
I looooove seafood! And I love this salmon poke bowl, even though the salmon is cooked. I know, I know: poke is traditionally made with raw fish, but I just don’t eat raw salmon. It’s a thing with me. I’m lucky that 3 out of the 4 of us in the family will eat fish…
I last reviewed Juice Plus in 2016, and it has been one heck of a popular post! But since its been three years, it’s definitely time to have an update. Since publishing my last Juice Plus review, I’ve received countless emails from Juice Plus devotees (and salespeople, natch) scolding me for my negative take on…
Nutrition Twitter is ablaze with the latest findings by the Annals of Internal Medicine – in FOUR studies – that eating meat doesn’t cause cancer or heart disease, and it doesn’t increase our risk of death. So of course, the media is all over it: Cutting Back on Red and Processed Meat Won’t Improve Your…
First there was Pegan, now there’s Ketotarian. Ahhhhhh! Make the mashups stop!! WTF Is a Ketotarian? But seriously, keto doesn’t look like it’s going away any time soon, so some people are capitalizing on variations of it for those who would otherwise be totally out. This includes plant-based eaters who have been turned off by…
I’m sure whoever invented the concept of ‘wellness’ did it with good intentions. I mean, to be ‘well’ generally means being healthy in body, mind, and spirit, so theoretically, wellness is a wonderful goal to aspire to. But wellness in 2019 isn’t what it presumably set out to be. The term has been co-opted by…