A lot of you have been messaging me about Beyond Meat and Impossible burgers and other plant-based meat alternatives, asking if they’re healthy. My answer is always, ‘healthy’ compared to what? To meat? To other meatless items? To a steady diet of Big Macs? ‘Healthy’ is always relative, and it’s always subjective. I actually try…
I used to think the Environmental Working Group was a reputable, trustworthy source of information. Emphasis on ‘used to’…that is, until I did a little digging into what’s behind their most popular work, the Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen. I was pretty taken aback with EWG’s dumpster fire of misinformation mixed with scare tactics and…
This past March, I was Activia’s guest at the incredible Gut Microbiota for Health Summit. Speakers from all over the world addressed topics relating to the microbiome and its impact on our health and wellness. I was not paid for this post. A lot of you have messaged me asking for the highlights from this Summit,…
There are a ton of food rules to help us eat ‘healthier’ and ‘less processed’ foods: shop the perimeter of the grocery store, don’t eat anything in a box, choose foods whose ingredients you can pronounce, foods with more than 5 ingredients shouldn’t be eaten…but are these ‘rules’ even helpful? When it comes to minimally…
What do you see when you look at the photo below? For the record, I took this picture of my unfinished butter tart (for the Americans/uninitiated, butter tarts are a Canadian baked good that are basically gooey pecan pie, with no pecans, in a tart) today in a coffee shop. Why am I taking…
If you spend any time on natural health websites or with alternative medicine practitioners, you may have heard of ‘leaky gut syndrome’. What does that even mean? Can your gut leak like a tap and cause all sorts of health issues like some people say it can? The term ‘leaky gut’ isn’t recognized as something…