Number of words: 409 Here’s where the long-term problems occurred. Since carbs are energy food and should be eaten in quantities that match a person’s individual metabolic health and activity level, when you eat more energy than you are currently burning you’ll gain weight. But Americans weren’t given this message. They were virtually badgered into … Read more

Number of words: 260 Anyone who is going to undergo gastric bypass would be wise to develop a relationship with a qualified clinical nutritionist who is capable of planning a nutrient-dense meal plan of real food, so that starvation can be achieved in the healthiest way possible, as bizarre as that sounds. Your doctor may … Read more

Number of words: 53 One hundred years ago, a hard working man ate 6,000 to 6,500 calories and hard working women ate 4,000 to 4,500 calories per day. Today an average woman needs 2,000 to 2,500 calories and an average man needs 2,500 to 2,800 calories. Excerpted from page 174 of ‘Death by Supermarket’ by … Read more

Number of words: 85 Dr. Epstein is an outspoken critic of cancer organizations’ focus on cancer drugs rather than prevention. “The National Cancer institute’s budget has increased from 200 million in 1971 to 4.6 billion today,” he said. “Paralleling this increase is the increasing incidence of nonsmoking cancers. Very little money is spent on preventing cancer. … Read more

Number of words: 489 In the 1860s Louis Pasteur discovered that heating milk killed of pathogenic microorganisms that led to many infectious diseases (and launched the germ theory of disease). There were two courses of action the food industry could have taken to halt the spread of infectious diseases through swill milk: They could have … Read more

Number of words: 189 In Charles Frazier’s civil War novel Cold Mountain, a wounded Soldier, Inman, travels perilously back home and along the way is helped and hindered by others, including a goat woman who takes him in and feeds him. Frazier writes, “A little spotted brown- and-white goat came to her and she stroked … Read more

Number of words: 166 According to Dr Daniel, edamame, which are boiled green vegetable soybeans, are safe to eat – occasionally – since the soybeans are harvested young before developing mature levels of antinutrients and toxins. But she is concerned that many people today are “noshing on edamame like it’s popcorn.” Tofu is made by … Read more

Number of words: 178 If isoflavone supplements are questionable, what about eating soy, and how much soy should we eat? We continue to hear that Asian have less disease because they eat a lot of soy. But how much soy do Asian really eat? In ancient times, farmers cultivated soybeans to instill nitrogen into the … Read more

Number of words: 203 Normal elimination is once or twice a day. Primitive humans likely didn’t have problems with constipation because their rough, fibrous foods, stimulated peristalsis, which is the organized, rhythm – like movement that moves foodstuff from the mouth through the digestive system to elimination. But since refined food products immediately turn into … Read more

Number of words: 44 Heroin, cocaine, caffeine, refined, white flour, and sugar are all white, powdery, highly addictive substance. Sugar happens to be a socially acceptable addiction, and it’s one ingredient that keeps us eating factory-food products. Excerpted from page 12 of ‘Death by Supermarket’ by Nancy Deville