by Jonny Bowden | Anti-Aging, Blog
Whenever someone tells me how confused they are about diet—which is pretty much every day of my life—this is what I tell them to do. It’s the simplest, easiest “intervention” you can do. It doesn’t require counting grams, calories, ounces. It doesn’t require that you...
by Jonny Bowden | Blog, Everything Else, Recipes
Spoiler alert: I’m going to talk about vaccinations. This subject has become so polarizing that any slight deviation from the establishment line on this—no matter how nuanced or reasonable—gets you lumped in with the antivaxxers, widely derided as crazies,...
by Jonny Bowden | Blog, Nutrition
When I was a kid, my grandmother was always trying to get me to eat a lot of foods you had to chew a lot. “Gives you roughage”, she’d say wisely. “Keeps you regular”. Well, that was then, this is now. Our prune-eating grandmothers were onto something, but they had...
by Jonny Bowden | Blog, Nutrition, Recipes, Weight-Loss
The saddest thing about this week’s “shocking” revelations regarding the sugar industry is not what the sugar industry actually did but; what’s really sad is that this is the first time most people are learning about it. If you happened to miss the headlines of the...
by Jonny Bowden | Blog, Nutrition
Watermelon owes its claim to fame as one of the world’s healthiest foods to three facts: One, its high water content (about which, more in a moment); two, its high content of lycopene; and three, its high levels of vitamin A and carotenoids, including the important...
by Jonny Bowden | Blog, Recipes, Weight-Loss
This is a fact: Cows weren’t meant to eat grain. Seriously. It’s just not their natural diet. You can make them eat it, just like you can make lions in the zoo eat Cheerios, but it’s not what they normally eat, and they won’t do well on it. And you won’t do well if...
