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

CONTEXT MATTERS One word of caution, however: If you have chronically overconsumed supernormally stimulating, ...

second Good Food standards, does that mean they’re a healthy choice? First, legumes, like whole grains, ...

methods today is time-consuming—and frankly, it seems like a tremendous amount of work for a food that ...

THE MAGICAL FRUIT Because some of the short-chain carbohydrates (sugars) found in legumes aren’t properly absorb ...

common. This is one potential outcome that would cause legumes to fail our third Good Food standard (promo ...

symptoms, including dysbiosis and systemic inflammation. Fructans (another type of carbohydrate also i ...

Soybeans are particularly good at producing seeds more protein-rich than most other legumes (and all ...

healthy” or that “soy reduces the risk of breast cancer,” but those are radically simplified media sound ...

estrogens. (And for the men reading this book—do you think you need more estrogen?) So why would ...

botanically, they are legumes. All legumes contain protein structures that may be hazardous to humans—one type ...

short- and long-term health. These dangerous proteins violate our third and fourth Good Food standards—which means ...

same unhealthy proteins as peanuts. All nut butters are best eaten in moderation, for reaso ...

MAKE YOUR OWN CASE Admittedly, the scientific case against legumes isn’t nearly as strong as the case against, ...

You can participate in additional (small- scale) research on legumes by participating in our Whole30 program. Make ...

CHAPTER 11: DAIRY “During and following our family’s Whole30, my son Jeremiah’s (type 1 diabetic) blood sugars ha ...

The discussion of dairy* is one that interests many people and has no simple, black-and-white answers. There are ...

MILK: PERFECT Cow’s milk is the perfect food ... if you are a calf. Likewise, human breast milk is the ...

system. Milk is a blend of bioactive substances that not only promote aggressive growth of a very young ...

digestive systems and immune systems are complete. This means the growth and immunological messages from moth ...

—casein and whey. Casein makes up about 80 percent of total milk protein and acts as a source of amino aci ...