Dr. Mercola Non-stick cookware – are they safe to use? According to ‘The Intercept’: “Concerns about the safety of Teflon, C8, and other long-chain perfluorinated chemicals first came to wide public attention more than a decade ago, but the story of DuPont’s long involvement with C8 has never been fully told… [A] long trail of documents has emerged that casts new light on C8, DuPont, and the fitful attempts of the Environmental Protection Agency to
Is it possible to exercise while fasting? This is a common question we hear all the time. People think that food gives them energy and therefore it will be difficult to fast and exercise at the same time. Some people with physically demanding jobs feel that they could not fast and work properly. What’s the truth? Well, let’s think about this logically for a second. When you eat, insulin goes up telling your body to
If you’ve been wondering how to do intermittent fasting, this is your go-to guide. Intermittent fasting is possibly the least expensive and at the same time, the most powerful healing method available to us. Every religion has an element of fasting—whether it’s the 30 days of Ramadan or the various one day Hindu fasts. Our ancestors definitely knew what they were doing. Our ancestors ate whatever was freshly available. But often they couldn’t find anything to
The war on fat is the biggest mistake in the history of nutrition. As people have reduced their intake of animal fat and cholesterol, the incidence of many serious diseases has gone up. We are now in the midst of worldwide pandemics of obesity, metabolic syndrome and type II diabetes. Studies conducted in the past few decades conclusively show that neither saturated fat nor dietary cholesterol cause harm in humans. Scientists are now beginning
Sarah Berry Weight problems cannot be measured by numbers, according to David Ludwig. Overeating isn’t making you fat. Rather, getting fat makes you overeat. This is the word of Dr David Ludwig, an obesity expert and professor of nutrition at Harvard. “It may sound radical, but there’s literally a century of science to support this point,” Ludwig tells The New York Times. So what, if not overeating, is causing an obesity crisis of epidemic proportions? There