Sustainability
Surviving the Survival Mechanism
It shouldn’t be a surprise that North Americans have failed to overcome this obesity epidemic with dieting. Humans have an innate, survival mechanism that…
Tag: Moderation
Blood Sugar Stabilization
Can We Really Blame Fructose For Causing Metabolic Syndrome?
When it comes to survival, the body will do anything it can to beat the odds. Breaking down ‘fructose’, a naturally occurring sugar, is one of those survival tactics that the body figured out millions of years ago – a time when animals and some humans needed to hibernate. Unfortunately we are now stuck with
Food Guide
Canada’s Food Guide – It’s a …..!
It’s here! The new Canada Food Guide was announced on Jan. 22, 2019 at 10:00 am in Montreal, Quebec by the Honourable Minister of Health Ginette Petitpas-Taylor. Being so anticipated, it was more like a birth announcement than a revealing. Here’s the scoop. Where the food guides from the past have had specific instructions based
Eating
How Do We Survive Without Holidays?
Everything in life serves a purpose, including the holidays. Without them we may be tempted to just keep working. Perhaps the holidays help us to keep everything in moderation by ensuring we balance both our work time with our play time. This would deem the holidays as essential. With that in mind, the question is
Food Science
Not Cool, Beans!
No one can deny the obvious discontent that the human body feels after eating a serving of beans. Beans, like grains, contain elements in the shell that protects them from predators . . . . predators like humans. One of these elements is a sugar, oligosaccharide, which ferments in the intestine and produces that