Adventures in Whole-Food, Plant-Based Eating
What is the question? There are more than one, including: Why do people keep smoking when they know it is killing them? Why do people seek out excuses to cheat on their diets? Why do people gamble with money they can’t afford to lose? Why is porn damaging so many...
It is summer of 2022. I just wrote a post about Keeping Kosher, which translates somewhat literally as “eating clean.” Lately, I have been hearing the phrase, “eating clean,” in the miasma. Friends are doing it, or trying it. Someone actually claimed that I claimed to do it. I don’t...
I grew up in a Reform Jewish family. We didn’t eat pork, but we did eat pepperoni pizza, so we clearly were not strictly Kosher. I only learned much later in life that pepperoni is a sausage made from pigs. I did learn the most important rules, however. Only later...
There’s a new player in the cholesterol game, called Apolipoprotein-B. Of course, you will not hear the story in this way from your doctor. Around the time that I was bornScientists began to warnOf a molecule calledCholesterol The body makes it in the liverSo that organ can deliverAll that’s necessaryFor...
Hypothetically, if you saw a headline reading Bowlers need to stop exaggerating the health benefits of their sport, would your reaction be: to wonder which benefits bowlers exaggerate, and eagerly read the article for details to skip the article, but mentally note that bowlers make false health claims to skim...
Answered Mostly with Questions I hate tofu and sprouts. Where do you get protein? What’s the best meat substitute? What do you do when you eat out? What supplements do you need? What about fish? What about honey? Where do you get iron (or most other nutrients)? How can I...
One of the most persistent myths about nutrition is that we put on weight by consuming more calories than we burn. Were this true, it would follow that the only healthy way to lose weight is some combination of eating fewer calories and exercising more. While this approach certainly works...
It’s October 2010, and I have been eating whole food, plant-based for almost one year. I’m spending a weekend at the Healthy Lifestyle Expo, which is held at the Warner Center Marriott. It is my first time there and I am glad to meet some people who eat healthy like...
Dear Dr. G, I appreciate the efficiency with which you prescribed Lipitor and baby aspirin in reaction to my cholesterol numbers, and the streamlined system by which Kaiser encourages me to comply with your prescriptions. Believe me, I am quite disturbed by the numbers, total cholesterol 216 mg/dL and LDL...
