Sugar
Not to be too dramatic, but… sugar is the root of all obesity. And the reasons, given evolution and chemistry, are very simple and clear. The evolutionary part involves every […]
Category Archives: Diet vs. Technology
Supplements
Most of my life, I have held an anti-vitamin stance. I didn’t have any particularly good reason for holding that opinion. I think I had a tendency to place one-a-day […]
Calories
Calories, And the Counting Thereof Since nutritional labeling has been required on food packaging (1990), calories have been a large part of any discussion about diet. And I think […]
Corn
Corn is a recent addition to the Human food chain. It started as a much smaller grain in Mesoamerica where it was milled as early as (but still only) 7,000 […]
On Using Mice to Test Food
On Using Mice to Test Food Or A Quirk in the Technology of Nutritional Science Mice, hamsters, and rats, have been around, almost unchanged by nature, for millions of years. […]
Pet Food
Today is cat food day. I have had dogs in my life from the time I could crawl, but for the last 5 years, it has been cats. They are […]
Milk and Lactose Intolerance
You might ask how milk fits into the area of technological conflict – and here would be my view of the connection. Cows aren’t selling us milk, farmers are. And […]
Vitamins
There are thirteen essential vitamins. Essential means that we must get them from an outside source. Vitamins are organic compounds that help almost all living things perform their bodily functions, […]
Low-Carb Diet
The latest diet announcement in the national Health news arena reports the possible benefits of a Low Carbohydrate Diet. A study was conducted by researchers at the University of Tulane who […]
Technology, Diet, & Carbs
Last night my wife read the draft for my next blog, and she brought it back with a few comments. Her first question was – “How readable, versus how technical […]
Paleo-opolis 