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Holiday Meal Shortcuts That Won’t Hurt Your Gut
I started watching Ina Garten on the Food Network about ten years ago, when I first attempted to make food from scratch instead of from boxes. She told me to buy “good vanilla” and “good olive oil.” So, I did that. When holiday time…

You know your body best.
A well-known professor of neurology was giving a lecture to a large audience of internal medicine physicians.
“If a patient says they have a headache, do you believe them?”
The audience nodded in agreement.
“But you can’t do…

Gut Health—it’s different than you think
Poop jokes aren’t my favorite, but, they are a solid #2. Okay, not the best dad (or in my case, mom) joke, but I have others! We all do. There are a lot of poop jokes out there.
Gastrointestinal health is something that hasn’t been taken…

It might not be gluten or dairy. The issue might be this instead.
Gluten and dairy have been deemed the enemy. For some people who have celiac disease or complete lactose intolerance, yes, these foods need to be avoided.
But what about the rest of us?
Many people abandon foods that contain gluten or dairy…

Reductive nutritionism: playing into the hands of ultra-processed food industry
What should we be eating?
Tomatoes!
They have lycopene in them! And lycopene should protect us from cancer and heart disease. Do we cook them to get their maximal benefit or eat them raw? Should we be eating them everyday? It was all anyone…
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