Archive for June 2009

Making Sense of Nutritional Advice

Posted Jun 12th, 2009 and has No Comments »

A friend of mine recently told the story of going to a nutritionist and being advised to completely “cut out all dairy and wheat products” from their diet.  This is the second time within the last two days that I’ve heard about people being given this advice so I had to say something. Now, I can understand someone saying “cut …



Forget Dieting – Read This Book Instead

Posted Jun 1st, 2009 and has 1 Comment »

I just finished reading a great book that finally makes sense of all of the conflicting nutrition info that’s out there.  It’s called “In Defense of Food – An Eater’s Manifesto” by Michael Pollan.  You need to read this.  No seriously – you need to read this.  Period.  It’s that good. This book is written for the layperson so there’s …