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POPScoconutoil.com: learn the truth about coconut oil The more reading and research I do, the more it seems that we've been sold a bundle of lies about food. How many things that we were told were horrible seem to actually be fine? Butter, eggs, saturated fats, etc. And the things that were supposed to be healthy are really not. Vegetable shortening/margarine/other hydrogenated fats, canola oil, fat-free/sugar-free stuff, non-fat dairy products... I find myself leaning more and more towards Michael Pollan's advice: If your grandmother* wouldn't recognize it, you shouldn't eat it. *Your grandmother, or somebody else's – I don't think either of my grandmothers would have recognized fish sauce, chana dal, or pickled ginger, but if she'd been Thai, Indian, or Japanese, they would have.
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POPSDr. Daphne Miller on what healthy diets have in common
From another interview with Dr. Miller: "I don’t mean to sound self-righteous about this, but I don’t have hired help. I’m a doctor, I have two kids, I teach, I manage to exercise most days, and I still manage to cook. It’s just a matter of priorities. It’s a matter of deciding that this is the way you’re going to spend family time and relaxation time—not in front of the TV, not driving somewhere in your car, but actually just in the kitchen for a half hour or 40 minutes, making a meal.... But when people give me that as the ground rule—'well, you know, I just don’t have time to cook, so you’re going to have to find a solution for me that doesn’t involve cooking'—the answer is: Sorry. When people really get sick, they have all the time in the world. All of a sudden they go to all these doctor’s appointments and they have to stand in line at a pharmacy to buy their medications. And they have to go for testing and they have to go for follow-up, and they have to spend all the hours bei
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POPSDiet can shut off cancer genes "The findings could be particularly helpful for older patients whose prostate cancer shows up in a screening and could benefit from a less invasive intervention, such as lifestyle change, said biostatistician Ruth Etzioni of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle."
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POPShas coconut oil been getting a bad rap? If coconut oil were really as unhealthy as we've been told, you'd think everyone in Kerala (India) and Thailand, among others, would be keeling over right and left from congestive heart disease. Our shifting understanding of health and nutrition really feels like we're in a through-the-looking-glass stage: Wait, so it's vegetable shortening and canola oil that are bad for us, and butter and coconut oil that are good for us? I agree with Michael Pollan: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. And for goodness sake, stay away from the ersatz food-like products.
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