Has the lock down affected your eating habits?  Eating more and enjoying it less?  Eating better?  No change? Just a few very looonnnnng months ago, o...

Host Immunity isn’t about hospitality. It’s about the ability of your immune system to fight infections and heal injuries. Many nutrients are critical...

Like all upper respiratory viral infections, SARS-CoV-2 — aka Covid-19, aka corona virus — affects groups of people differently. Young and healthy peo...

I’ve been thinking about nut butters recently because some almond butter appeared in my pantry. It was an ingredient for a particular recipe, but of c...

The Paleo Diet has never been a favorite of mine. It’s based on the pretense that modern foods can mimic the diet eaten by primitive humans 50,000 or ...

Late night hosts recently took on the obesity epidemic. Bill Maher wants to bring back fat shaming. He thinks it’s the solution. James Corden responds...

There’s a lot of confusion about the meaning of “plant based diet”. I try to clear it up by talking about what plant-based does not mean. At least tha...

The Low Fat Diet sounds good on paper, but doesn’t work in the real world. I dislike it for lots of good reasons, especially because it encourages peo...

While doing a spring cleaning on old blog posts, I found several on fructose. It was a popular topic years ago, thanks to high fructose corn syrup hys...

It’s safe to say calories have hijacked our thinking about diets, nutrition and food. It took maybe half a century for that to happen. Now we operate ...