Adventures in Whole-Food, Plant-Based Eating
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...
I am very averse to taking medicine, and since reading The China Study I have put away all my supplements except for B-12. I have seen and experienced good Western medicine for things like bacterial infections and broken bones. But I have also seen questionable medicine for many other things....
The old management maxim holds that we can improve only what we measure. While there is a useful truth in there, the downside is that it can lead to obsession with measurement. Worse, we become tempted to affect the measurement itself in ways that are not consistent with the value...
We have raised two generations of people who don’t know how to cook. Many are quite proud of it, as if being able to cook implied a lower caste upbringing. Most people I ask tell me that they eat pretty healthfully. They often say they don’t eat much red meat,...
Most people understand “vegan” to mean a person who does not eat any animal-based foods. Just avoiding animal-based food does not guarantee one a healthy diet, and indeed there are many fat and sick vegans. Usually this is because they eat large amounts of nuts, vegan cheeses which are just...
