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Improperly Prepared Grain Fiber can be Harmful Last year, I published a post on the Diet and Reinfarction trial (DART), a controlled trial that increased grain fiber intake using whole wheat bread and wheat bran supplements, and reported long-term health outcomes in people who had previously suffered a heart attack (1). The initial paper found [...]

In 2006, Drs. Gerard Ailhaud and Philippe Guesnet hypothesized that industrial seed oils such as corn, soybean, safflower, sunflower and cottonseed oil are at least partially responsible for the current obesity epidemic (1). These oils were not a significant part of the human diet until very recently, yet they have been promoted due to their [...]

Firstly let’s clarify what affiliate marketing is.  Affiliate marketing is, simply put, earning commission through referrals. You become a commission-only sales person for a chosen company, or companies. Typically you would sign up to an affiliate network – such as Commission Junction, Trade Doubler just to name a few of the hundreds (if not thousands) [...]

It is well after lunch but not quite dinner, your stomach is growling, what are you to do? While it may be tempting to give in to the vending machine there are many more healthy and nutritious options to indulge in. Particularly if you are trying to lose weight the following options are especially for [...]

Gary Taubes gave a lecture at UW last Thursday. Thanks to all the Whole Health Source readers who showed up. Gary’s talk was titled “Why We Get Fat: Adiposity 101 and the Alternative Hypothesis of Obesity”. He was hosted by Dr. Philippe Hujoel, the UW epidemiologist and dentist who authored the paper “Dietary Carbohydrates and [...]

Sources of Copper It isn’t hard to get enough copper– unless you live in an industrial nation. I’ve compiled a chart showing the copper content of various refined and unrefined foods to illustrate the point. The left side shows industrial staple foods, while the right side shows whole foods. I’ve incorporated a few that would [...]

Yesterday I was sent a link to an article at the New York Times website that had a great feature. When you scrolled to the bottom of the article, a little blurb slid into view suggested another article I might be interested in reading. Because I was nearing the bottom of the page, this made [...]

At this year’s Superbowl, Google’s ad was probably one of the most memorable. It told a story through search about finding love and building a life in Paris in just 7 searches. They’ve released a tool to allow you to build your own search-story in a few easy steps. Here’s one I made about working [...]

I just saw a paper in the AJCN titled “Dairy consumption and patterns of mortality of Australian adults“. It’s a prospective study with a 15-year follow-up period. Here’s a quote from the abstract: There was no consistent and significant association between total dairy intake and total or cause-specific mortality. However, compared with those with the [...]

In 1942, Dr. H. W. Bennetts dissected 21 cattle known to have died of “falling disease”. This was the name given to the sudden, inexplicable death that struck herds of cattle in certain regions of Australia. Dr. Bennett believed the disease was linked to copper deficiency. He found that 19 of the 21 cattle had [...]