Nutrition and wellness are funny things. There’s always a push to be healthier, faster, in more extreme ways. And I think that a lot of the time, we get in our own way when we try to achieve those goals. Look. Compared to years past, we have a lot of health information available to us,…
I get asked a lot about protein powders. My stock answer is that you should always try to get your protein through food first, but some of you, for any number of reasons, find that hard to do. Maybe you’re not into eating solids in the morning, but you still want to get a hit…
Thank you to Food Science Babe, who not only provided me with the images and information for this Flavcity review, but who has also valiantly fought against Flavcity’s misinformation on many occasions. As always, this post is my opinion. Bobby Parrish, aka FlavCity, isn’t a food scientist or a dietitian. He’s a home chef with…
There’s a new study from France on artificial sweeteners and cancer, and predictably, the media has taken it and run with headlines like, ‘Artificial Sweeteners are Associated with Increased Cancer Risk, Finds Large-Scale Cohort Study’! I’ve been fielding questions around artificial sweeteners for years, and reading the comments in response to this study on social…
I’ve been asked numerous times to do a Zoe review, and I wanted to, but I never had access to the materials until now. After I wrote a small piece about microbiome testing for Men’s Health Magazine, Zoe contacted me and offered to send me a kit. Since Zoe isn’t available in Canada yet, they…
In the Facebook group for my recently-released Eating After 40 course, there has been a bit of talk about counting and tracking. It’s interesting to see women who have depended on counting and tracking for so long, that they aren’t sure if they can give it up and trust themselves to eat without them. Of…