Culinary Medicine

Salt: Toxicity is in the Dose

Sodium is an essential element to humans, but toxic at high doses. Excess sodium is linked to high blood pressure, heart disease, strokes, and cancer.

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Why you should ditch your gas stove

Induction cooking is better than using gas, and preferred by modern chefs, because it is safer, more precise, and easier to control.

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Whole Grains Reduce Obesity

Whole grains decrease the risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and all causes of death. Fiber is an essential nutrient

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Are Vegetables just BS?

The “anti-nutrient” effects of plants are outweighed by benefit to the human diet. Fiber meets the criteria of an essential nutrient.

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The Green Mediterranean Diet

The Green Mediterranean Diet promises less fatty liver, less visceral fat, and less mental decline with aging than the standard Mediterranean Diet.

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LiverKing Falls From Grace

That LiverKing used conned some with steroids isn’t the sin. The sin was that LiverKing convinced people that his diet and supplements led to health.

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Leaky Gut: Facts and Fads

The leaky gut is a concept used to explain obesity, inflammation, and some chronic diseases. What repairs a “leaky gut?” It turns out the Mediterranean Diet.

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The Beer and Sausage Diet

The beer and sausage diet prove that caloric deficit works for weight loss. It proved that not one dietary item is responsible for obesity.

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Decreasing Cholesterol: drugs and diet

The discovery of LDL, statins and genetics led to an overall reduction in cardiac mortality. Risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure, and high blood sugars increase risk only with high LDL.

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