Feast on Whole Food Nutrition

Get Flash to see this player. (Please feel free to listen to this recording if you prefer.) There are three basic reasons I decided to write this post… First: Lots of People Think Eating "Health Food" Is Like a Punishment If things are fun people tend to do them - and vice versa. Many people have the perception that healthy food is not fun. There is some type of association with health food as being boring or tasteless or monotonous. One reason is that many people think vegetarian fare is dull. When properly prepared vegetables and fruits offer a wonderful variety of flavors and ... Read Full Story

  Have you found yourself confused after seeing terms like: whole food nutrition, super foods, natural whole foods, and whole food nutrition supplementation whole food supplementation? When I first started to research about whole food nutrition , I discovered a vast difference between eating whole food and taking vitamins and minerals that had been extracted from the food or synthesized . What an eye-opener! However, I soon became overwhelmed with the wealth of resources on the subject. There seemed to be as many different opinions and ideas out there as there are world religions! All I knew is that I was no longer healthy ... Read Full Story

I used to take so much for granted when I shopped at my local grocery store. I trusted that what I was eating was safe. NO MORE! A recent article by Michael Pollan in the New York Times convinced me of that. His opinion was that even though the usual predictions that pesticides may no longer work, the aquifer may run dry, or the soil may lose its fertility may still come to pass, the real concern may be "an imminent breakdown in the way we're growing food today." A very scary antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria, MRSA, that has long been the bane of ... Read Full Story

As a nutrition consultant and resident of Florida, I was intrigued by the University of Florida's research study by Bruce Goldberger, director of UF’s William R. Maples Center for Forensic Medicine. In that study, he stated that the surprisingly high caffeine content in some beverages could present problems for pregnant women and children, and for adults with hypertension, heart disease or mental health ailments such as anxiety. “We weren’t surprised that there was caffeine in the sodas and some of the other beverages,” said Goldberger, who is also director of toxicology and a professor of pathology and psychiatry at UF’s College of Medicine. The ... Read Full Story

Some surprising links about sugar and sex appeared in a research article found the The Journal of Clinical Investigation, November 8, 2007. As a nutrition researcher, I have known for quite some time about the numerous ill effects of too many simple sugars in our diet. Table sugar is made up of glucose and fructose, and the average American eats over 2 lbs. of sugar every week! Blood glucose levels rise every time we consume food. No problem! When flooding our body with excessive sugar, a big problem arises. Not only are there obvious sugars in colas and desserts, but high fructose corn syrup ... Read Full Story