Tag: Moderation

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…

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

How Important is Consistency?

There are 5 voluntary tasks that we as humans must do to keep the body alive. These are 1) drink fluids, 2) eat food, 3) sleep, 4) go to the bathroom, and 5) dress to maintain body temperature. The body has internal alarms set for all of them – 4 of which are loud and

Ohhhh Shhhhhugar, It’s Tempting!

You know that feeling that is so hard to resist. You think “just one more” then you’ll stop and use some restraint next time. But it happens again – not on a regular basis but in moments when no one is looking, or when you think you’ve earned it. Wait! What are we talking about

Why are Comfort Foods, so Comforting?

Comfort foods are calorie dense and nutrient specific. When our bodies encourage us to eat comfort foods, it is looking for calories and more specifically, a certain type of them. We crave those comfort food calories because there is something…increased stress, lack of sleep, cold temperatures, fighting off infection, or simply skipping a meal… that

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