Is Gluten-Free a Fad, or Is Modern Wheat Really Toxic?

The mainstream media is conducting an all-out assault on the gluten-free diet. Daisy Luther explores whether gluten-free is a fad, or is modern wheat really toxic?

If you shop in the health food section of the grocery store or read the foodie blogs, you may have noticed a trend over the past couple of years: gluten intolerance seems to be on the rise.

Kristen Michaelis explains this intolerance very clearly on the website Food Renegade: Read more

The Super-Common Food That's Ruining Your Skin, Joints, and Blood Sugar

One reason we have an obesity and diabetes epidemic is because one super-common food has been changed almost beyond recognition.

Sometimes it’s difficult to discern trend diets from the truth about nutrition. It seems that everyone has an agenda, a special diet, a “limited time offer.” However, we’re here to tell you about one incredibly common food that is absolutely wrecking most people’s skin, joints, and blood sugar.The best part? There’s no agenda here. The worst part? This food is probably in just about every one of your meals. Curious to know what we’re talking about? Wheat.

Why Wheat Isn’t All That Great

Let’s start at the beginning. The “wheat” we’re referring to is hardly wheat at all. In fact, if you could give someone from the 18th century a baked loaf of bread (even whole wheat), they would hardly even recognize it. Read more

Cut Out the Wheat and Lose Weight

Your daily bread could be making you fat.

New year, new you and a new round of that eternal struggle – lose weight. It’s often the resolution that tops everyone’s lists but weight loss eludes many of us, the perpetual pushing of that boulder up the mountain.

For decades we’d been told that carbohydrates are the enemy but now a new school of thought within nutrition is gaining ground, stating that we need carbohydrates as much as we need vegetables, but there is one culprit among them that may be doing some real damage: wheat. Read more