Imagine a simple dietary swap that could boost your heart health, stabilize your blood sugar, and even enhance your cooking with rich, natural flavors. Meet fruit oils—olive, avocado, and coconut oils—nature's gift from the flesh of fruits, not seeds or grains like their vegetable oil counterparts. While vegetable oils like canola or soybean have been linked to inflammation and chronic health issues, fruit oils offer a nutrient-dense, heart-healthy alternative that's been celebrated for centuries. In this post, we'll uncover what makes fruit oils unique, why they outshine vegetable oils, and why it's time to give them the name they deserve to help you make smarter choices for your well-being.
Read MoreThe Tukisenta tribe, residing in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, presents a fascinating case study in nutrition and health. Despite deriving 90% of their traditional diet from sweet potatoes, the Tukisenta people exhibit none of the chronic diseases that plague modern societies, such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, or high blood pressure. This fact would not have been surprising because, since the '90s, high carb-low fat diets have been most popularly recommended. However, this intriguing paradox challenges the newly prevailing "low carb" diet trend and raises important questions about the true culprits behind these health issues. In this post, I will cover their diet and a few other “extreme” traditional diets and discuss the real culprits behind the ever-increasing amount of chronic illnesses.
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