The common explanations for the cause of the obesity epidemic put forward by the food industry and policymakers, such as inactivity or a lack of willpower, are not only wrong, but actively harmful fallacies. Obesity isn’t new, but the obesity epidemic is. We went from a few corpulent kings and queens, like Henry VIII or…
Try these delicious, quick, and easy ultimate breakfast tacos for any time of day. They’re rich in protein, fiber, and healthy fats. This recipe for the ultimate breakfast tacos includes a flexible template to make your tacos following the Foundational Five formula for a balanced meal. The foundation of any taco is choosing a great…
Here is a review of reviews on the health effects of animal foods versus plant foods. Instead of looking only at individual studies or individual reviews of studies, what if you looked at a review of reviews? In my last video, I covered beverages. As you can see below and at 0:20 in my video…
Here is a review of reviews on the health effects of tea, coffee, milk, wine, and soda. If you’ve watched my videos or read my books, you’ve heard me say, time and again, the best available balance of evidence. What does that mean? When making decisions as life-or-death important as what to feed ourselves and…
This Crunchy Cucumber Tomato Salad is a staple in our home from spring until the end of summer and I hope you enjoy this simple salad too! When I think of easy, delicious, refreshing, and nutritious salads for the summer, this is the one that comes to mind. Both cucumbers and tomatoes—the stars of this…
Plant-based diets are put to the test for treating migraine headaches. Headaches are one of the top five reasons people end up in emergency rooms and one of the leading reasons people see their doctors in general. One way to try to prevent them is to identify their triggers and avoid them. Common triggers for…
Plastering front-of-package nutrient claims on cereal boxes is an attempt to distract us from the incongruity of feeding our children multicolored marshmallows for breakfast. The American Medical Association started warning people about excess sugar consumption more than 75 years ago, based in part on our understanding that “sugar supplies nothing in nutrition but calories, and…
How do healthier plant-based diets compare to unhealthy plant foods and animal foods when it comes to diabetes risk? In my video on flexitarians, I discuss how the benefits of eating a plant-based diet are not all-or-nothing. “Simple advice to increase the consumption of plant-derived foods with compensatory [parallel] reductions in the consumption of foods…
Public health authorities continue to lower the upper tolerable limit of daily added sugar intake. Dating back to the original “Dietary Goals for the United States” in 1977, also known as the so-called McGovern Report, leading nutrition scientists didn’t only call for a reduction in meat and other sources of saturated fat and cholesterol, such…
We had the pleasure of talking with Dr. Sheil Shukla about his work, food, traditional Indian culture, and Asian American and Pacific Islander Month. We hope you enjoy this interview. Please tell us a little bit about your work and career. My name is Sheil Shukla, DO, and I am a board-certified internal medicine physician…