Diet

Your heart beats about 100,000 times a day. That's 35 million times a year. And every single beat depends on what you put on your plate. What should we...

Fall 2025

Intuitive eating is about following your gut when it comes to eating, essentially eating like a child. Rather than relying on diet advice, diet plans,...

Fall 2025

Strong muscles are an advantage as we age. It's not about big biceps. It's about how fast and easily you can move when it counts. Muscle power lowers...

Spring 2025

Losing weight is not easy. It is even harder to keep from regaining lost weight. Weight loss drugs are becoming increasingly popular, but many have...

Fall 2024

Blood sugar is the primary energy source for cells. The brain especially depends on blood sugar (or, when sugar is not available, a compound your liver...

Fall 2023

Some mushrooms make you high, but all mushrooms have some magic.

Fall 2023

Ideally, we wouldn't add sugar or any sweetener to anything. We would feel better and be healthier if we didn't. But that's not realistic for most of...

Spring 2023

Beets, or beetroot, is a versatile vegetable. Both the tops and the roots are eaten. Because of their deep red colour, they are often used to colour...

Fall 2022

When you eat is important. We have been hearing for the past 25 years to eat multiple small meals spread out throughout the day. This is wrong, and...

Fall 2021

Heart disease is the leading cause of death and the quality of life---more than cancer and even more than COVID in a pandemic. Everyone has some risk...

Summer 2021

Food is wonderful --- the smell, the taste, the texture, the colour. There are many delightful things about good food, but how can we enjoy food more...

Winter 2021

We know that genes control a lot of who we are. Genes determine our height and, to some extent, our weight, our personality, and many of the things...

Fall 2020

The only sure way to keep your New Year's resolution is to not make one.

Winter 2020

To succeed in life, you have to be a loser.

Fall 2019

Sparkling Delight - an article from Panacea Magazine, Fall 2019

Fall 2019

Dairy fat is mostly saturated fat. Traditionally, saturated fat is linked to high cholesterol. Often, we are told to reduce our saturated fat intake....

Summer 2019

Alcohol: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Winter 2019

Although it sounds like it, carb cycling has nothing to do with riding a bike. It is an eating plan that involves increasing carbs on certain days of...

Winter 2019

Habits that Rob Years

Winter 2019

Health Came To Those Who Fibre Ate - an article from Panacea Magazine, Winter 2019

Winter 2019

You Are When You Eat

Winter 2019

Food Poisons - an article from Panacea Magazine, Fall 2018

Fall 2018

Organic - an article from Panacea Magazine, Fall 2018

Fall 2018

Why would anyone go without food? Surprisingly, the answer is simple. It's good for you. The fact is that humans cannot go without water, but going...

Summer 2017

Fight Inflammation by Going Gluten Free!

Spring 2017

Gary Taubes is a science and health journalist and author of The Case Against Sugar (2016). The Harvard graduate has degrees in journalism and applied...

Winter 2017

Making smart choices about what you put in your grocery cart should be an easy task, but food manufacturers often use misleading wording to sell their...

Winter 2017

The disease of kings, gout was associated with lavish banquets and goblets of wine. Many people think gout is limited to men who dine well and drink...

Winter 2017