I LOVE ice cream. My grandmother loved it, my dad loved it, and apparently, I’ve inherited their ice cream genes. Peppermint, coconut, peanut butter chocolate…give me all of the ice cream. All of it. I could literally eat it every day, and I pretty much do. As much as I eat a healthy diet overall,…
For this post, we’re following up my metabolism post with one on Set Point. Let’s get started with one caveat: there’s not a lot of good, recent research that has been done on Set Point. In any of my posts, I generally will only use and cite studies published in the last 5 years, which…
After a long day working or doing whatever you do, the last thing you want is to go into the kitchen and cook some crazy elaborate meal, am I right? I’ll bet I’m also right when I say that even though you don’t want to work hard in the kitchen, you still want to eat…
Middle Eastern food is one of my favorites (second only to Mexican). Kebabs, hummus, tahini in EVERYTHING, and of course, falafel. Falafel are basically deep fried chickpea balls, and they’re magical. If you’re looking for an easy falafel recipe or even just more plant-based meal ideas, keep reading! Never mind that I once got food poisoning…
From the world where Hollywood celebrities and sport stars are taken seriously for their nutrition ‘expertise’, there comes the latest fad diet: The TB12 Method by Tom Brady. Tom Brady checks all the boxes for someone who many people would look up to: He can throw footballs better than most humans; he’s married to ‘supermodel’…
If you’ve never heard of bircher muesli, just know that it was basically the first rendition of overnight oats, developed by a Swiss physician in 1900. I’m sure it wasn’t as cool then as overnight oats are now (no Instagram in 1900), but it’s an important piece of trivia to note that Maximilian Bircher-Benner, the…