Finally, here is a medical researcher who warns that carbohydrates are behind the obesity epidemic. Worse than most carbs, Robert Lustig of the University of California at San Francisco says that fructose, because of the insulin response it generates, is the metabolic equivalent of poison. An obesity expert who has worked extensively with children, Lustic […]
My mother didn’t raise me to be a lobbyist. But there I was on Wednesday, jawboning congressmen and aides to the U.S. Senate on the virtues of legislation that would give the U.S. Department of Agriculture authority to prohibit junk food in the nation’s schools. Say bye, bye to vending machines spewing chips, candy bars, sugary […]
Meg Wolff has been a loyal and encouraging reader of The Slow Cook and for the life of me I don’t know why. Where Meg is a spiritually enlightened lover of whole grains and macrobiotic vegetables, I am an unreformed heathen of a meat eater. Yet we share a common belief in “real” food, in […]
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