Once again, ‘what we’ve been told'…is wrong.

Why Almost Everything You've Been Told About “Unhealthy Foods” Is Wrong

After examining 72 academic studies involving more than 600,000 participants, the study, funded by the British Heart Foundation, found that saturated fat consumption was not associated with coronary disease risk. This assessment echoed a review in 2010 that concluded "there is no convincing evidence that saturated fat causes heart disease."

How Industrial Seed Oils Are Making Us Sick

Contrary to what we’ve been told, industrial seed oils such as soybean, canola, and corn oils are not “heart healthy” or otherwise beneficial for our bodies and brains; in fact, plenty of research indicates that these oils are making us sick. Read on to learn about the history of the industrial seed oil industry, the adverse health effects of consuming these oils, and what dietary fats you should eat instead.

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Brain Health – The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

A staggering one in six Americans now take psychiatric medication in an attempt to manage psychiatric conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. Unlike other medical problems, psychiatric problems shake us to our very core—affecting not only our productivity and health, but also our relationships with others and with ourselves. We tend to think of psychiatric problems as "chemical imbalances" in neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine, and most psychiatric medications are designed to try to bring these brain signalling molecules back into balance. 

But what if we targeted inflammation instead? It is now well-established that inflammation plays a significant role in psychiatric disorders. - Dr. Georgia Ede

For more detailed information please consider the following articles:

Cooling Brain Inflammation Naturally with Food

Low carb and mental health: The food-mood connection

Stabilize Your Mood with Food - How to get off that invisible hormonal roller coaster

The Truth About Low-Protein, High-Carb Diets and Brain Aging

How sugar may damage the brain

Vegetable oils: are they healthy?

Fat & Meat (science hiding in plain sight)

Disputed Science on Saturated Fats

“To summarize, the results of most meta-analyses do not support the diet-heart hypothesis or the recommendation to replace saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat.”

Saturated fats' review by guidelines committee flawed, say leading scientists

Nutrition News (& meat consumption)

  • “The red meat studies, with their controversial findings, have drawn particular ire from the epidemiologists at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, who have long promoted a vegetarian diet. These researchers, together with the vegetarian advocacy group, The True Health Initiative, tried to get the red-meat papers retracted before they were even published and have vigorously criticized the scientists responsible for the reviews.”

Food "Movies" for thought ~

“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest forms of poison.” – Ann Wigmore