Food for thought

By John McDougall, MD This truth is simple and is, therefore, easy to explain. You must eat to live. But the choice of what you eat is yours. There is an individual, specific diet that best supports the health, function, and longevity of each and every animal. The proper diet for human beings should be based on starches. The more rice, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and beans you eat, the trimmer and healthier you will be—and with those same food choices you will help save the Planet Earth too. A recommendation for eating starches puts glazed looks on people’s faces. They think of starch as something used in the laundry to stiffen shirts. Starch brings back memories of pasty bland-tasting goop, and white, airy Wonder Bread. Most disturbing is that nearly everyone believes starches are fattening and nutritionally inferior foods. Fortunately, common knowledge is completely wrong and the proof is right before your own eyes. The most important evidence supporting my claim that the natu...

There are certainly a lot of good things when it comes to sports: good sportsmanship, camaraderie, teamwork, sports stimulate the economy, provides entertainment, gives underprivileged youths a chance to succeed, and more. Wealthy pro sports management does donate a portion of profits to worthy causes. Here's a recent internet article re: an under 17 girl’s soccer tournament in Costa Rica: The U.S. team girl’s soccer team was playing Haiti, a team of girls that two months ago was dealt an unlucky hand, an earthquake that killed more than 200,000. All of the girls arrived for the tournament in Costa Rica homeless. U.S. goalie Bree Haeberlin said she and her teammates started strategizing almost immediately about how to handle the Haitian girls. They weren't thinking of what kind of offense to run or how to shutdown Haiti's leading scorer. They were thinking about what they could do as a team to help the Haitian girls ease what must have been, Bree and her teammates thought...

Get a small portable blender, Magic Bullet, or the like. You can even use a larger blender, but for one to two people a smaller one works best. I like to use Rice Dream or any kind of rice "milk" as the liquid, but soy milk, almond milk, oat milk, etc works fine too. For 1-2 people: Place into the blender- One peeled soft, ripe, chunked banana One cored, peeled ripe, chunked pear 1/2 to 3/4 cup of liquid (Rice Dream, or soy milk, etc) Thoroughly blend That's it! (After use, rinse out blender immediately or it will be hard to clean.) Other options: Just use liquid and 1 to 1 1/2 bananas for a banana smoothie (Good!) or to the peeled soft, ripe, chunked banana 1/2-3/4 cup of liquid (Rice Dream, etc) add one of the following: Bing Cherries (a favorite!) Peaches (peeled) Mango Strawberries Raspberries Blueberries Fresh Pineapple Blackberries Asparagus (just kidding!) Other fruit? We've found that not mixing fruits works best. If you can take the majority of processed su...