With all the problems of the SAD diet (Standard American Diet), few would place vitamins and supplements very high on the list of potential troublemakers for Americans. And indeed, with the quality of food in America, some supplementation for those on the SAD diet is probably preferential to not supplementing. The problems arise because many… Read More Vitamins And Supplements

Stop for a minute and think about all the nutritionally-void foods you have read about up until this point — the processed sugars, processed grains, trans fats, excessive salt, etc. Nothing embodies these foods like fast foods and convenience foods, many of which contain large amounts of calories and very little if any actual nutrition… Read More Fast Foods, Convenience Foods

Dr. Edward Howell summarized the problem of free fats and oils perfectly in one sentence: “Any isolated, purified, skeletonized food material must be expected to have adverse, far-reaching effects on the health of living organisms.” While the processing of foods into oils places the rendered product into the same category as devitalized sugar and flour,… Read More Vegetable Oils And Other Fats

America is a protein-centered nation. Foods high in protein are marketed as healthful based on the fact that they are high in protein. Most health food stores have shelves devoted to high-protein drinks and shakes. Weight-lifting magazines are inundated with advertisements for high-protein drinks and foods, with the not-so-subtle marketing message that protein in the… Read More Meat and Animal Products

The American Heart Association states that the average American consumes about 6 to 18 grams of salt daily, or roughly one to three teaspoonfuls per day. That means that some Americans eat close to 15 pounds of salt per year. Yet the same organization states that we need only about 200 mg to 500 mg… Read More Salt

With the exception of vegetable oils, few items in the American diet embody such idyllic notion of health as grains. For the average person who makes a conscious effort to start eating “healthy,” invariably this means cutting down on meat and animal products and to increase the amount of grains consumed, usually in the form… Read More Grains and Flours

Start asking around and you will find that many people will admit to drinking very little plain old water. You will even find people that will admit to never drinking any water whatsoever. We are so used to drinking coffee, tea, colas and soft drinks that it is very common to hear people say they… Read More Coffee, Tea, Colas and Soft Drinks

For all the uncertainties surrounding the human diet, that babies are supposed to drink milk is one of the few things almost everyone can agree on. That this milk should be breast milk should also be a given, but unfortunately it isn’t. Although most literature put out by formula manufacturers starts out by saying that… Read More Baby Formulas

Vaccines “The greatest threat of childhood diseases lies in the dangerous and ineffectual efforts made to prevent them through mass immunization.” That statement was not made by an unknown person posting on an Internet message forum or written by a so-called “quack” involved with alternative medicine, but by the award-winning Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D., who… Read More Three Legs of Metabolic Activity