Alaska State Fair, 2012, World Record! |
Anyhow, I thought you might like to see how I make my sauerkraut.
Discussions on potato diets, resistant starch, gut health, prebiotics, probiotics, oil-pulling, cold thermogenesis, and other affairs of plain living...
Alaska State Fair, 2012, World Record! |
Kamut (top left), Farro (top right), Modern Red Wheat (bottom) |
Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes, says someday we might be able to improve our health by taking probiotics, but "we are still in the very early stages of working out how to do this."
...probiotics are products that contain beneficial microbes, and they have all sorts of health claims attached to them, but actually if you look at the evidence behind these products, they tend to be a bit medically underwhelming.
A lot of these species are being chosen for historical reasons because they're easy to manufacture and package, not because they're excellent at establishing themselves in the gut. And often they're very industrialized, very proprietary strains. You know, they enter and then they disappear or they pass through. They don't have a huge amount of impact.
Quinoa |
Over One Million Subscribers -- including tens of thousands of health professionals -- read and trust the Mercola.com "eHealthy News You Can Use" e-newsletter -- and that number is growing by an average of 1,000 subscribers per day!
My Picture |
Refined table sugar (sucrose) is processed in our bodies by insulin, which is produced by the pancreas. Honey is about 55 per cent fructose, a fruit sugar that's processed by the liver. Despite the chemical difference, our bodies still react to honey in much same way as it reacts to refined sugar - with a blood-sugar spike.
Easy Pico de Gallo (makes 2-3 cups)
- 2.5 tomatoes on the vine
- 1/2 onion, diced
- 1/2 jalepeno, de-seeded and diced
- juice from 1/2 lemon
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/4 cup green pepper, diced
- 1/3 cup fresh cilantro, diced
- 1 tsp. apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp. garlic powder
- salt and pepper to taste
At the end of the study, RS-rich diet failed to affect glycaemic control in prediabetic obese individuals in contrast to the regular fibre-rich diet, which indicated that fibre profile could be an important determinant of the effect of dietary intervention.