Reading Time: 4 minutes Far too many products in Canada’s stores give us lots of calories but little nutrition. And we have dangerously abandoned cooking and meal-time routines
Tag: Nutrition
The invaluable power of healthy skepticism
Reading Time: 4 minutes Usain Bolt became the fastest human being ever by eating – wait for it – Chicken McNuggets, not following the latest health care fad
Taking a bite out of the dangerous notion that food is medicine
Reading Time: 3 minutes Pseudoscience and quackery love the food-is-medicine philosophy because it helps them sell their nutritional supplements, diet books and therapy sessions
Three nutrition trends to stay away from
Reading Time: 3 minutes Skip the cleanses, alkaline diets and IV vitamin therapy; there’s no evidence they work and plenty of evidence they can be harmful
The red meat merry-go-round
Reading Time: 4 minutes The protein war isn’t about the amount of meat we should eat, but rather about how studies on nutrition should be interpreted. It’s messy
The dark side of the Non-GMO Project
Reading Time: 3 minutes Suggesting that food products with the Non-GMO Project label are safer and more nutritious is simply misleading and rests on scrawny scientific evidence
The great protein war pits chain against chain
Reading Time: 4 minutes Proteins are dividing us more than ever and this summer, major restaurant chains are not helping. We need a truce, and fast
Scheer’s food guide criticism may come back to bite him
Reading Time: 4 minutes Weaponizing Canada’s Food Guide to promote certain foods against other sources never results in a positive outcome.
National food policy can play key economic and social roles
Reading Time: 3 minutes But a great deal of work must be done to turn the vision into a reality that serves all Canadians
Hey vegans, it’s time to grow up
Reading Time: 3 minutes Vegan activists are wilfully interfering with the livelihoods of farmers and invading the social interactions of consumers celebrating food