Food & Water

Blackberry: A Tale of Two Fruits

Blackberry: A Tale of Two Fruits

Pictured is one of the plants that provided our morning meal of common blackberry (Rubus allegheniensis) fruits.  These fruits are delicious, sweet, crunchy (yes, crunchy, read on), and extremely nourishing.

Dietary Diversity: The Forgotten "Vitamin" in Successful Diets

Dietary Diversity:  The Forgotten "Vitamin" in Successful Diets

This article is a result of recent discussions with a number of people who practice the Paleo Diet.  For the record, these discussions were polite and the dialogue centered on pursuit of evidence and application of logical actions in the diet.

Dear Mark Sisson: Where Paleo Recommendations Stand in Contradiction to Real World Observations

Dear Mark Sisson: Where Paleo Recommendations Stand in Contradiction to Real World Observations

Dear Mark Sisson,

I came across your article entitled “Why Grains Are Unhealthy” that was published on the Huffington Post (shared on Primal Docs).  For those of you that missed it, it is posted here.  It is a nice article that presents some important information many are unaware of.

How Kinds of Plants Stack Up for Health

How Kinds of Plants Stack Up for Health

What follows is a brief description of four kinds of plants humans can utilize as food and the benefits/detriments of those plants to world health

Coconut Water and it's "Green Packaging"

Coconut Water and it's "Green Packaging"

Coconut water and its commonly used “green packaging” (the Tetra Pak) is not the health conscious choice that it is made out to be—not for the consumer and not for the world.  To be sure, there are far worse things on this planet, but in the same vein, there are better options for much of North America.  Let me explain.

Breeding Nutrition Out of Plants

Breeding Nutrition Out of Plants

A recent article in The New York Times (by the same title as this one) discussed changes in modern produce and presented evidence that our supermarket fruits and vegetables are not as nutrient dense as their wild progenitors.

Why We Should Question Information from the USDA

Why We Should Question Information from the USDA

I am going to provide an example using raw milk.  You may not like milk, you may not think people should drink milk, it may even be against your religion.  None of that is being challenged here.  This writing isn’t meant to convince you to drink milk.  It is just an example of the faulty information being presented by an organization that is supposed to protect us and promote our health.

Intergenerational Nutrition

Intergenerational Nutrition

I’m going to begin this brief article with a hypothetical example.  Let’s assume we have a woman who has come to the realization that her diet, which is rich in highly processed foods containing synthetic ingredients and grown in contaminated soils, is causing her health problems.