To understand this pandemic, we have to go back to the beginning. The 'Germ Theory of Disease' is the foundation stone on which the entire edifice of Modern ...

Everyone has seen the pictures from Italy and Wuhan, the chaos in the hospitals, make-shift quarantine wards, and tracked the ever-rising death toll. The gre...

The NutriRECS Report last week that stated there was no good evidence for excluding meat from your diet has dealt a body blow to the nutrition establishment....

Why do we eat ? Simple question, usually answered in mainstream thinking with the word ‘energy’. This is wrong, the correct answer is ‘for nutrients’, and am...

Avoiding salt has to be the most stupid idea ever produced out of the nutrition mainstream. Why ? One word – ‘homeostasis’ - the body’s ability to establish ...

Philosophy enters the picture because at its heart the nutrition debate is about ETHICS, what it is to eat well, to live well, and ethical questions belong f...

'Eat as much junk food as you like, its fine, we have a pill that will make it all OK'. This is the Holy Grail of our social order, and of its science, activ...

Crop agriculture is only viable on account of oil and gas. It is dependent on the production of vast amounts of fertiliser through the use of hydrocarbons, i...

The UK’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) released its Report this week on ‘Saturated Fats and Health’. It recommended retaining the current...

Science gives way to art in the face of complexity. The immune system provides a good example of this in action. As this text book highlights, the problem is...

If science isn’t there to tell us what to eat, then what is its function in nutrition ? It is to demolish the mainstream position. Why ? Because the nutritio...

Good nutrition, eating well, is an art not a science. Why is this ? Think plateaux, most of us have experienced these. Plateaux are useful for our discussion...

Is nutrition a science or an art ? What does philosophy have to do with it ? Why is tradition the key to everything ? In this short series I want to address ...

Modern medicine has only a negative definition of health – the absence of disease. But what does a positive understanding look like ? And what does it say ab...

“Nicotinic acid cures pellagra, but a beefsteak prevents it”. This quote from Sigerist appears in Michael and Mary Dan Eades’ ‘Protein Power’ (p.169), and it...

Mainstream nutrition breaks food down into three macronutrients – carbohydrates, protein, and lipids. Is this helpful ? No, it leads us astray. The focus on ...

Beauty is the ultimate feminine value, and is intimately connected to health. Catherine Shanahan’s ‘Deep Nutrition’ is a book of immense importance, because ...

Gym shot, taken today. I'm 57 years old, hitting lifetime personal bests. This is what eating carnivore does. Sorry, had to brag. Do feel good though, energy...

I've set up a Patreon account for those of you who find this blog of value and want to support me on my journey through the mainstream world of nutrition. I ...

The main health claim for fibre is that it GETS IN THE WAY of the digestive process – it is an anti-digestive ‘food’. Likewise the sugar in fruits prevents p...