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Why Do I Feel So “Blah” During Winter and What Can I Do About It?

  by Catherine W. Britell, M.D. The alarm clock rings.  It’s pitch black outside.  It’s so cold out there; so warm under the covers.  You roll over and hit the “snooze” button.  After the third “snooze” you reluctantly slip out of bed and into the shower,  get dressed, eat a quick breakfast and rush out the […]

Eat Flaxseed Oil, Gain 100 Pounds?

Flaxseeds are one of the highest-quality and most SANE foods around. Their high fiber content makes them Satisfying…they fill us up quickly and keep us full for a long time. They’re completely unAgressive, and are therefore unlikely to be stored as body fat. They’re also Nutritious thanks to all the clog-clearing and fat-burning omega-3 fatty […]

Study Shows Obese Teens Eat **Fewer** Calories Than Peers

  “Overweight children aged from 9 to 17 years eat fewer calories than kids of normal weight in the same age group, researchers from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine reported in the journal Pediatrics.” In other news, rather than digging deeper and seeking out the hormonal issue that explains this elegantly, researchers […]

A Few BMJ Researchers Conclude: Eating More Protein Requires a Reduction in Vitamin, Mineral, and Fiber Intake. What?!

<Unedited Rant Warning :)> The BMJ recently gave science a bad name reporting online that avoiding an extremely high-carbohydrate diet increases heart disease risk. Thankfully, we’ll likely avoid another Ancel Keys-esque “get data from 22 countries and only report the 6 that support your preconceived notions” as other researchers are already publically pointing out the […]

even bureaucrats recommend a natural balanced diet

  In SANE we’ll chat about the natural balanced way we ate for 99.8% of our evolutionary history. Natural because it’s all about eating foods found directly in nature. Balanced because eating foods found directly in nature enable us to automatically get about a third of calories from carbs, a third from fat, and a […]