It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

just kept feeling better—to the point at which I feel healthier now than I did before I had Lyme, as ...

flavors without providing the nutrition that nature intended. These are foods- with-no-brakes, promoting overconsumpti ...

Food standard by default also fail the fourth. 4 . These foods fail our fourth Good Food standard: sup ...

want to ask you a few simple questions. Is it just fine that some of the foods you eat are controlling your ...

Remember your answer to these questions as we move through this section. At some point, you will have ...

contributes positively to our health? * What may surprise you is that both sugar and artificial sweeteners fail ...

times sweeter than table sugar. Remember the Vegas Strip analogy? Artificial sweeteners are the very definiti ...

woman shyly raised her hand and asked, “But if I can’t sweeten my strawberries with Splenda, how do I ma ...

you eat more to satisfy your craving. See how that plays right into the supernormally stimulating a ...

cravings, which generally means you reach for more sweet foods with lots of added sugar. It’s a v ...

Sugar also messes with the healthy environment of our guts, specifically altering the delicate balance of “go ...

definition an inflammatory condition in the gut. NOT SO SWEET? Numerous reports have associated the use of ...

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s talk about what we mean by “added” sugars. First, we’re ...

Sugar = Sugar = Sugar. There are some metabolic differences between specific forms of sugar (glucose, fru ...

table sugar. (And stevia isn’t any better. We dare you to find a stevia leaf and chew on it ...

This section is going to be short, because alcohol has no redeeming health qualities. We don’t care what y ...

symptoms when use is reduced or stopped. Regularly consuming things that are known to be clinically addicti ...

drink or three on a Friday night may lead to a weekend’s worth of poor food choices. You may know w ...

Ready for some math? If sugar is “empty calories,” and alcohol has almost twice as many calories per gram ...

way alcohol affects your immune system: both acute and chronic alcohol use impair cellular immunity, leaving your ...