15 Myths & Truths On Vegetarianism: #5
Posted by Guy in Bone Health, Nutrition & Lifestyle on 30. Oct, 2011 | 1 Comment
Myth #5: Meat-eating causes osteoporosis, kidney disease, heart disease, and cancer. Oftentimes, vegans and vegetarians will try to scare people into avoiding animal foods and fats by claiming that vegetarian diets offer protection from certain chronic diseases like the ones listed below. Such claims, however, are hard to reconcile with historical and anthropological facts. All [...]
15 Myths & Truths On Vegetarianism: #4
Posted by Guy in Nutrition & Lifestyle on 30. Sep, 2011 | No Comments
Myth #4: The body’s needs for vitamin A can be entirely obtained from plant foods. True vitamin A, or retinol and its associated esters, is only found in animal fats and organs like liver (27). Plants do contain beta-carotene, a substance that the body can convert into vitamin A if certain conditions are present (see [...]
15 Myths & Truths On Vegetarianism: #2
Posted by Guy in Nutrition & Lifestyle on 30. Jul, 2011 | No Comments
Myth #2: Vitamin B12 can be obtained from plant sources. Possibly of all the myths, this is the most dangerous. While lacto and lacto-ovo vegetarians have sources of vitamin B12 in their diets (from dairy products and eggs), vegans (total vegetarians) do not. Vegans who do not supplement their diet with vitamin B12 will eventually [...]
15 Myths & Truths On Vegetarianism: #1
Posted by Guy in Nutrition & Lifestyle on 30. Jun, 2011 | No Comments
by Stephen Byrnes, PhD, RNCP Originally published in the Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients, July 2000. Revised January 2002. “An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.”—Alfred North Whitehead Bill and Tanya sat before me in my office in [...]
Blasting Nutritional MYTHs With Metabolic Typing
Posted by Guy in Nutrition & Lifestyle on 22. Mar, 2011 | No Comments
You may have heard many years, so-called nutritional experts advocated a low protein, low fat, high carbohydrate diet as the perfect diet for all of us. They promised that we’d lose weight and lower our cholesterol while simultaneously improving our health and fitness, hmm. Well, they turned out to be wrong, dead wrong for some [...]
