Question: Dr Cabot's diet recommendations are very different to yours. Why does she say to minimise animal fat and use olive oil instead for Liver health? - Carolyn Answer: I am not familiar with Dr. Cabot's work, but she is probably just repeating the same politically correct nutritional "advice" that we hear everywhere, which always includes a very unscientific demonization of saturated fats. It has been know for at least 60 years that saturated fats protect the liver and animal fats are mostly saturated. Plus animal fats from grass-fed animals supply vitamin A, which is very important for liver function. MORE...
Archive for April, 2007
"Ketchup provides us with an excellent example of a condiment that was formerly fermented and therefore health promoting, but whose benefits were lost with large scale canning methods and a reliance on sugar rather than lactic acid as a preservative. The word ketchup derives from the Chinese Amoy dialect ke-tsiap ... MORE...
Percy Weston, an Australian farmer, chronicles his experience with high-phosphate fertilizers and its effects on the health of humans, farm animals and crops. He shows how chemical farming ... MORE...
More than a quarter of a century ago, Aletha Solter, Ph.D., developed a form of attachment parenting known as Aware Parenting, yet many parents and professionals remain unaware of the significant contributions she has to offer. Aware Parenting encompasses practices which establish secure attachment, such as: natural birth; breast-feeding on ... MORE...
Which is better: cooked food or raw? Taking nothing for granted or gospel, I set out to find out for myself the answer to this important question. First, I asked, what is meant by "raw food" and what is meant by "cooked food?" One cannot simply say that raw is uncooked, ... MORE...
This is a reworking of a previous article by Bee Wilder. It has proven to be one of our most popular articles to date and we have chosen to feature it again in its extended version. Part 1 in February's issue, describes what Candida ... MORE...
Forget Cancer, forget AIDS, Diabetes is fast becoming the king of all chronic disease which is decimating the human race. The Centers of Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta declares that 33% of the babies born this year will be diabetic by the year 2050. -- Dr. Alan Cantwell Diabetes, which is expanding ... MORE...