I recently attended a food conference where a session about animal welfare was sponsored by the USFRA (however I was not paid to write this post). One of the speakers, Brad Greenway, is a pig farmer from South Dakota, and I've used some of the content from his lecture [...]
Variety is key to a healthy diet, so if you've found yourself in a rut, eating the same fruits or veggies every day, it's time to shake it up a little. We are so fortunate to have all sorts of fruit available through every season, no matter where [...]
I just arrived home from a conference about some of the hottest topics in nutrition right now: Food safety/allergy, dietary fat and heart health (omega-3 fatty acids, dairy fat), food intolerance (gluten, wheat, sugars, dairy protein), plant-based proteins, diet and irritable bowel disease, gut health and the microbiome, [...]
By now, you've heard that DASH Diet is voted one of the best diet plan to follow. I'm talking lifestyle here. For life. Just about any sensible diet plan, that's supported by science, will be recommending you add more vegetables to your diet. You know you are supposed [...]
How much farther can we go with the "Detox" craze? What once was a hollywood fad, has become mainstream, and January is the month to market the hell out of it. Just search the word "detox" and you'll get 11,700,000 hits (yes, that's over 11 million!) with many [...]
Best Diet. Seven years in a row. Do you think this suggests you should learn more and try it? I do! US News and World Report has once again ranked the DASH Diet as the Best Diet. Despite being ranked as the Best Overall Diet for 7 years in [...]