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…
The media can just never get enough of these ‘doing XX can kill you’ headlines, so it’s up to me to come behind them and clean up the mess. The recent research on eggs is one example, and the latest study on how skipping breakfast can cause you to die of a cardiovascular event, is…
YAY!! I love myth busting, and I haven’t done one of these posts in forever. Welcome to nutrition myths 2019! I could probably write an entire post on each of these myths, but I love putting them together in an efficient one-two-punch format. If you want to hear more about any of these, just let me…
I keep seeing an article about the calories in Easter candy pop up in my social feeds. Around Halloween, it’s the same article, except with Halloween candy. The article bugs me because who gives a crap how many calories are in their Peeps? Seriously! Enjoy your Easter candy (or Halloween candy) once a year, and…
Most peoples’ diets are low in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains: that’s something we know. But did a bad diet kill 11 million people in 2017? That’s what the latest nutrition study to come out of The Lancet has concluded. In fact, this study states that a bad diet kills more people per year than…