For the fifth year in a row, Mississippi lumbers in as the fattest state in the nation, but Alabama is closing in fast, according to a new survey by the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation. In Mississippi, 32.5 percent of adults–that’s one in three–are obese. In Alabama, the figure is […]
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Kudos to Bon Appetit magazine for including bacon, duck fat, whole milk and anchovies on the Top-10 list of healthiest foods. Even the American Heart Association (AHA), a leader in the campaign against dietary fat, recently revised its nutritional guidelines, increasing the daily recommendations for fat. “”The science just wasn’t there” to support the anti-fat […]
We’ve written lots about how carbohydrates–not fats–are behind the so-called diseases of civilization: obesity, diabetes, hypertension, atherosclerosis. The problem is, plant foods, especially refined starches and grains, trigger an insulin response in the body. Besides being the hormone primarily responsible for fat storage, insulin has a corrosive effect on the body. Too many Americans are […]
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