Nutrition

know your salmon

Know Your Salmon

Wild salmon consist of five distinct species. Each of those species has different characteristics for taste, texture, color and nutritional content. I once spent a summer in Bristol Bay Alaska working with Spearfish’s Corey Brost on his salmon fishing crew, and learned to quickly identify each species. Corey and Fisher Brost King, or Chinook salmon […]

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food status

Food as Status

Stop buying stupid things. A common form of objection when it comes to eating healthy food is cost. Recently, eating quality food has been referred to as a form of elitism because it costs more than it does to eat comparable amounts of junk food. Does food as status really make sense? I must clarify

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healing power of lard

The Healing Power of Lard

The healing power of lard? If you’ve paid much attention to nutrition in the past few years, you’ll know that the saturated-fat is-evil-eat-more-wonderbread-food-pyramid lipid hypothesis has been pretty solidly disproven. Yes, there will always be a few diehards clinging to what the USDA taught them in grade school, but not too many people are still convinced that

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fairy dust

Fairy Dust

Fairy dust? I frequently get requests from friends and clients for advice on supplements that they’re taking. Often, what they’re taking is ridiculously overpriced, under-dosed and at times even counterproductive. There are quite a few reasons behind this, but for this article I’m going to focus on one concept in particular. Dubious manufacturers in the

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Cereal Technology

Cereal Technology

Why is it that crappy foods are so commonly and aggressively marketed as health foods? If people want to eat quality food, why not just give it to them? The answer lies in economics. There are only a limited number of people in the U.S. market, and they will only eat a certain amount of

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It's Not Health Food

It’s Not Health Food

Most people would agree that getting in a fender bender in the parking lot is preferable to flipping your car three times on the highway. Not getting in a car wreck in the first place, however, is still your best option. There is a substantial difference between that which is better and that which is

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Real Food

Protein shakes have been a dietary staple of mine for much of my life. I loathe MRE’s; the “Meals Ready to Eat” given to military personnel in the field consisting of roughly a thousand calories of mostly flour, soybean oil and corn syrup. On deployments I would often live exclusively on meal replacement shakes, flax

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