What you eat literally controls almost every function of your body and mind. Food connects us to one another and to our bodies. Food can reinvigorate our health, bring families together, restore vibrant communities, improve the economy and the environment, reduce pollution, and help our kids get better grades and avoid eating disorders, obesity, and…
While the holidays are an occasion to celebrate, for many people this time of year can also feel sad or stressful. If your outlook is less than jolly, I’ve found something that can immensely improve your mindset and help you feel better. Researchers call gratitude “the appreciation of what is valuable and meaningful to oneself;…
New Year’s resolutions don’t need to happen on New Year’s Day, they can happen any day. When you take control of your health and your life, you feel empowered. Those changes can happen January 1st or March 1st, or any day really. You don’t need a calendar to dictate them. My upcoming docuseries Broken Brain provides plenty of ways…
What leads to a broken brain? Most of us never learn how to manage our energy and bodies. Instead, we use drugs like sugar, caffeine, and alcohol to self-medicate and manage our energy and moods. We don’t connect our behaviors and choices with how we feel. The key insight is that your brain is an organ that’s…
I know you might feel a bit hopeless after the last blogwhere I explored why we are all so confused about what to eat. The bottom line: we are confused because we hear conflicting scientific reports, our government funds bad food and gives us corrupt advice, and the food industry benefits from keeping us confused. I…
Other than the lie that fat makes you fat and causes heart disease (which has been thoroughly debunked by myself in Eat Fat Get Thin, in Harvard doctor David Ludwig’s book Always Hungry, and even in our new 2015 US Dietary Guidelines), the biggest lie that has caused endless suffering for tens of millions of people is…
For many years, we have been told by experts to eat lots of grains. In the infamous 1992 Food Pyramid, we were told to eat 6 to 11 servings of bread rice, cereal, and pasta every day! And we listened… and turned America into the “Fat Nation” with 70% of us now overweight. Even the…
Eating meat will clog your arteries, cause cancer and type 2 diabetes, and take years off your life, right? No, but you could be excused for believing that. A lot of people do, meat lovers and abstainers alike. This food, that as a species we have eaten since the beginning of our evolution, has become…
If someone handed you a beverage that you knew would cause you weight gain, bloating, acne, gas, allergies, eczema, brittle bones, and possibly even cancer, would you drink it? Would you chug three cups of that liquid daily and give two cups of it to your children? Probably not. Yet the federal government tells us…
Nuts are fattening, right? Well no, just the opposite. Americans have never expected much from nuts. We tend to eat them from bowls while sitting around a bar drinking beers, or scarf down stale peanuts from those tiny bags on a plane. Even at the supermarket, jars of nuts and seeds are found in the…