Farmer’s Markets, Not Factories, Please

Come on, have a little bit of cornflakes, just like mom used to have when she was little, and her mom before her. As reflected in this image from a Kellogg’s Manufacturing Plant, starting the day with a healthy bowl of cornflakes is the way to go. What? Don’t worry, I’m being facetious.     […]

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Too Much to Choose From

Before my afternoon flight the other day, I had about thirty minutes before I boarded, so I took the opportunity to eat my pre-plane snack of steamed broccoli, lime, olive oil and turkey.  (Pre-plane, because even though I do bring veg on board, I prefer to not bring those of the more, well, odoriferous type, […]

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Getting Back on Track

It happens to all of us.  When I first started following The Paleo Diet back in 2005, I definitely had a slip up or two. After having cut gluten and found all my GI symptoms disappearing in a matter of days, I was nearly completely convinced.   It was right around Christmas time and I […]

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Is It Really Fructose Intolerance?

“I can’t eat any fruit”, a client told me. Assuming she must have been tested for fructose malabsorption, which, according to Wikipedia, “is formerly named “dietary fructose intolerance,” is a digestive disorder in which absorption of fructose is impaired by deficient fructose carriers in the small intestine’s enterocytes. This results in an increased concentration of fructose […]

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