Posts tagged Bioavailability
Rethink Your Diet: Embracing Whole Foods, Animal Fats, and Avoiding Processed Carbohydrates and Vegetable Oils

In the maze of modern dietary advice, one truth seems to be emerging with increasing clarity: our bodies thrive on nutrition that mirrors what our ancestors consumed. This isn't about nostalgia; it's about health. The industrial food revolution has brought us convenient, cheap, and highly processed foods, but at what cost? This post delves into why a diet rich in whole foods and animal-based fats, while avoiding processed carbohydrates and vegetable oils, could be the key to reclaiming our health. We'll explore the nutritional superiority of whole foods, the detrimental effects of processed carbs, the industrial horrors of vegetable oil production, and the often overlooked benefits of fats from animal sources. Join me as we explore a path back to natural, sustainable eating that aligns with our biological needs.

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How Do You Get All Of Your Nutrients?

For many years, the prevailing wisdom has been that vegetarian and vegan diets offer superior health benefits compared to diets that include animal products. This perspective is usually coupled with unfounded concerns over the health impacts of consuming meat, eggs, and animal fats and legitimate ethical considerations about animal welfare. When I inform people that I am on the carnivore diet and choose not to eat many fruits, nuts, and vegetables, the question I get asked most often is, " How do you get all of your nutrients, then?" The reality is that question should be posed to those who choose vegan and vegetarian diets because, as we will see, plant-based foods don't contain all of our required nutrients. However, animal-based diets do. This post will cover the misguided belief that plants provide complete nutrition and cover which nutrients are the most likely to be missing or deficient.

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Dietary Evolution

Today I want to clarify a few misconceptions about how science classifies and describes the diets of animals, where we fit into the diet picture, and our evolutionary journey here. Interestingly, most omnivores specialize by being either closer to being almost entirely herbivorous or carnivorous. You may be surprised to see where we fall in the spectrum.

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Chew Your Food More To Be Healthier:Sound Advice or BS?

Are there people who just don’t chew enough to absorb enough nutrients to be healthy, even though they could if they wanted to? How do we know when we have safely masticated food enough to safely swallow? Are all of the recommendations to chew more based on legitimate science? Let’s find out…

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