Funnies & Foodies
Halloween Toon & Bad Seeds
Giggle: Pucker Up!
Count Dracula stole the little ghost's candy bucket and the other kids' candied apples. He tricked the three strumpets: Ms. Brides, Narcy, and Teary, to expect Romeo behind the kissing booth, not TG. Now he is ready for his next bite… Deary faints dead away.
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Gab: Tricky Seed Oils
Just when I thought I had cooking oils figured out, more evidence is revealed regarding seed oils and our health. Leading metabolism expert and New York Times bestselling author of Deep Nutrition, Catherine Shanahan, MD is a Cornell-trained biochemist turned family physician. In her fourth book, Dark Calories: How Seed Oils Are Destroying our Health and How We Can Get It Back, she exposes the eight common seed oils that cause the cellular damage, which underly chronic disease. The “Hateful Eight: include canola, corn, cottonseed, soybean, sunflower, safflower, grapeseed, and rice bran oils.
Dr. Cate also introduces readers to other highly respected scientists who warn that vegetable oils are a public health disaster, “wreaking havoc on our bodies’ cells by depleting antioxidants and promoting free radical toxicity.” Side effects include “uncontrollable hunger, inflammatory fat buildup, blood sugar swings, disrupted brain energy, intracellular oxidative stress, and gut inflammation.”
Dr. Cate also exposes the corruption that deceives doctors and consumers, sharing the financial connections between industry and academics. “Americans were enticed into buying these oils based on their cholesterol-lowering property, but the idea that cholesterol-lowering is beneficial was pushed on us without solid evidence to support it.”
And Dr. Cate outlines a clear roadmap of recovery. She proposes a clear, no-nonsense plan that aligns with “our genetic needs and nature’s laws.” With the right nutrients that benefit all medical conditions and recover our sense of taste, and wholesome, nourishing food cravings.
I would buy the book for any one of the three sections. The first section is highly scientific. The second section focuses on how we got here. And the third on gaining back our health. And you don’t have to start at the beginning. I read the third section first.
Goods: Free Resources
On Dr. Cate’s website, she has many free articles and other resources including a free newsletter. You may also make a medical appointment with her. And all her books are available for purchase.
Deep Nutrition: Defines the human diet and how it supports human health, as well as what health truly is. Builds on the brilliant work of Dr. Weston A Price.
Food Rules: How to control inflammation with food and common meds you don’t need once you fix your diet.
Fatburn Fix: Defines metabolism as a network of 4 interconnected systems, and describes how oxidative stress disrupts the network and makes us insulin-resistant long before we gain weight.
Dark Calories: The first book to clearly define junk food and processed foods so you can avoid them and discover exactly how they make you sick.