The 10-day program is designed to help people make changes.
Mary McDougall will teach you how to shop, cook, and even dine out. Medical care is provided to participants by John McDougall, MD. You’ll learn from and be entertained by John McDougall MD, Mary McDougall, Jeff Novick, RD, Doug Lisle, PhD and others.
What role do pesticides play in the development of cancer, if any? In this 5-part video series, world renowned and respected scientist, Dr Bruce Ames, addresses this very issue. Tune in today to find out more about this important issue.
In the recent flurry of diet books based on low carb diets, sugar, along with carbohydrates, became the villan. Many Americans who struggle to lose weight, avoid sugar at any cost. While sugar is clearly not a health food, is sugar, in and of itself, to blame for weight gain?
Since 1980, most major dietary guidelines have recommend that we consume around 30% of our calories from fat. And, since then, this has become the gospel, even in many of the the vegetarian and vegan communities. Recently, some organizations, like the American Heart Association, has begun to recommend even higher levels of fat, in certain conditions.
Are food additives safe and if so which ones? Or should you just be avoiding them all? Are they more important than my label guidelines?
If you have heard my label reading talk, you know that I do not address the issue of food additives. My main focus is on the three ingredients which are the most over consumed in the American food supply and causing the most harm. These are the "bad" fats (saturated, hydrogenated, trans) , refined sugars/sweeteners, and refined carbohydrates/grains.
However, the Center For Science In The Public Interest (CSPI) has just updated their analysis of food additives in the latest edition of Nutrition Action Newsletter and it is available online.
Many beleive that only the pharmaceutical industries are corrupt and lie about their products and that everyone in the supplement and herbal industry is honest and upstanding. Is this true?There is corruption on all sides.
Children are highly influenced by what they see on television and watch over 5000 adds a year. Food companies have been asked to limit the amount of junk food advertised to children. And to improve the quality of the foods advertised. Guidelines have been set by the Institute of Medicine. Are things getting better, or worse?
The food industry has done it again. Spent its valuable time, energy and money in the development and introduction of two new and much-needed products to help Americans combat the major health problems that plague us..
