Throughout history, cerain foods have been so important as to be considered sacred by the people who ate them. In North America, there are many examples of this. For the Plains Indians, it was buffalo. For the Hopi of the American Southwest, it was blue corn. And for Native Americans of the upper Midwest it […]
Considering the amount of them we eat, the potato has a curiously low profile. When I was growing up, we ate potatoes nearly every day with the evening meal. They were usually baked, sometimes boiled and invariably bland, although I do remember discovering at one point that baked potatoes are a lot better with a […]
If there were ever a beauty contest for vegetables, eggplant would be a serious contestant. Indeed, there are enough lovely varieties of eggplant to have a competition consisting of eggplant alone. In addition to the common deep purple Globe eggplant with its smooth shiny skin, you would have to give strong consideration to the long […]
It is widely accepted that diet is a contributor to many adverse health conditions, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, colon cancer, and tooth decay. Yet there still seems to be considerable disagreement about what the “ideal” diet is to prevent these afflictions. The question of what constitutes the ‘ideal” diet is not a new one. Over […]
Last time I wrote about the pioneering work of Weston Price, DDS. Back in the 1930’s Doctor Price conducted extensively documented studies of traditional peoples on 6 continents and found that those still eating their indigenous diets enjoyed robust good health and remarkable immunity from tooth decay. He documented his findings in a landmark book: […]
