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Healthy eating isn't just about which foods you eat, but how they're prepared. Cooking food wrong can create toxic chemicals that make you sick. These chemicals are called Advanced Glycation End Products, or AGEs. An average person accumulates excess AGEs just from eating common processed industrial foods and beverages. AGEs cause inflammation and contribute to heart disease, diabetes and other problems, including damage to the overall immune system. AGEs can simulate premature aging by damaging skin collagen, promoting arthritis and hardening arteries. Of course, the body is capable purging itself of the small level of AGE intake that results from a natural, whole-foods diet cooked properly. But a typical industrial diet overwhelms the body's ability to keep up, so they accumulate. You should also know that your body's ability to remove AGEs decreases with age (no pun intended). When meat, or foods high in sugar or fat, are fried, grilled or even baked at high temperat...

Pesticides, herbicides, artificial fertilizers, ripening agents, genetically modified grain, the use of radiation and other "conventional" methods improve crop yields. A far greater percentage of fruits or vegetables or beans survive until harvest, at which time the producer has more to sell, as measured by weight. Conventionally grown foods are artificially coddled, protected and babied. Their natural defenses may atrophy, as they're supplanted by artificial defenses. Contrary to nature, the weakest plants and fruits survive until harvest just like the strongest do. With organic foods, on the other hand, only the strong survive. An organic Apple for example, survived until harvest not because it was sprayed with man-made poison, but because it engaged in a battle against insects and plant disease using its natural defenses -- and emerged victorious. Conventionally grown foods are weak, and they pass their weakness on to the person who eats them. Organic foods are strong,...

Don't look now, but you're not alone. Inside your digestive system, trillions of microbes play a central role in your health. The vast majority of both cells and genes in your body, in fact, aren't human, but intestinal gut flora cells and genes present in the hundreds of species that have colonized different parts of your digestive tract. They are so numerous that they collectively weigh between between two and five pounds. (Note that a gallon of water weighs about 8.3 pounds.) These gut microbiota not only digest and process your food, they are the foundation of health. They manufacture hormones, biotin and vitamin K, suppress the growth of harmful bacteria and "train" the immune system, among many other tasks. You can upset the normal balance of intestinal microbes by eating processed food, taking antibiotics, experiencing stress, not drinking enough water and in other ways. The simple act of eating domesticated animal meat, for example, may trigger the gut ...

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The entirety of ancient Sparta's rich and fascinating food culture is often reduced to a caricature of brutes grunting over a nasty concoction of pork-and-blood soup in a solemn nightly ritual. The horribly inaccurate Wikipedia entry on "Ancient Greek cuisine" sums up the misperception nicely: "Spartans primarily ate pork stew, the black broth." This view is misleading, a misreading of history, devoid of Spartan context and purpose and easily invalidated. Ancient observers of Sparta obsessed over aspects of Spartan culture that were unusual or unique. One of these was the famous group dining clubs, or syssitia, to which all citizens (males in good standing over the age of 20) were required to belong, and all members required to attend most nights for dinner. Because this meal was so heavily commented upon, many have made a bizarre leap to assume this was the only possible meal in ancient Sparta. Let's explore just how easily this widely held notion can be in...

There are many versions of the modern Paleo diet, which intend to re-create or simulate the diet of humans during the Paleolithic era (starting about 2.5 million years ago and ending about 10,000 years ago with the advent of agriculture). All these variants share an opposition to the consumption of grains, such as barley, wheat, rice, quinoa, kasha, oats, millet, amaranth, corn, sorghum, rye and triticale. That anti-grain stance is based on the belief that since Paleolithic man didn't eat grains, we shouldn't either. Archeology is now proving that Paleolithic man, in fact, ate grains as a regular part of the original "Paleolithic diet." That's right: The entire premise of the Paleo diet's anti-grain stance is false. How did this misunderstanding happen? Archeological evidence is skewed toward materials that survive the centuries, such as stone, bone and other hard objects. Soft materials (such as grains) don't survive unless hard objects were used to proce...

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