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....

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...

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...

“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 ...

I say NO. But who am I to make such a statement ? What qualifies me to do so ? Let me respond to these questions, and clarify the basis of my claim. I am a f...

The articles below were cited as supporting evidence by a vegan during a twitter debate with me last week. So I took a look at the first six, in order to see...

Proteins form the building blocks of our bodies. Plant proteins build plants, we are not plants (at least I'm not, are you ?) Humans should source their prot...

Controlled clinical trials are among the gold standard of nutrition science. So how do they fare against tradition and experience as a reliable source of know...

This article is part of the current 'War On Meat' (see here). It is also the result of faulty reasoning. Meat is not the problem, over-production of grain is...

Polar explorers had to decide what foods to take with them on their expeditions. 'Scott of the Antarctic' listened to the nutrition 'experts' of his day. Tha...

In his tweet, Dr. Shawn Baker enters the terrain of ethics, our conception of the good life, and stakes out a position for the Carnivore diet. Here, I want t...

The perspective of the nutrition mainstream is a feminine one. This is not a criticism, simply a statement of fact. It reflects a deeper reality, that the en...

The Australian Dietary Guidelines claim to be the product of 'evidence based science'. They are not, instead they rest on an article of faith. They are a rel...

"Adherence to dietary recommendations in Australia is poor". How poor ? As few as 2 out of 10,561 according to one study. But why ? Could it be something to ...

Media headlines recently ran with yet another study claiming to prove how bad meat is for our health. The study did nothing of the kind. So what is the agend...

Modern health care claims the eradication of tuberculosis in the West through anti-biotics as one of its greatest triumphs. But the truth is TB only AROSE as...

Well, maybe we would buy our food from PEOPLE we knew, and trusted ? As opposed to relying on brand reputation, and printed lists of ingredients ? Why do we ...

My nutrition textbook has a section on how to read food labels. Easy. If the object in your hand has a label, do not buy it, do not eat it. Buy local instead...

The idea that LDL is the 'bad' cholesterol is pivotal to the entire approach of mainstream nutrition. If this falls, the whole thing collapses. And it is fal...