Whole Food Nutrition

High fructose corn syrup (HCFS). As plentiful in foods as winter rain is in Oregon. And apparently just as harmless. At least according to any of the recent HFCS commercials on TV lately which have apparently stoked the fires of a new debate: HCFS - malignant or benign?

This is one colleague’s response to these commercials:

Read the aritcle by Dr. Christine Gonzalez on TheHolisticOption.Com.

Joshua Rosenthal is the Founder and Director of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. He was interviewed recently on Martha Stewart Radio Living Today.

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Quinoa (pronounced keen-wah) is an ancient food that is not yet well known in North America. It has been cultivated in South American Andes since at least 3,000 B.C. and has been a staple food of millions of native inhabitants. The ancient Incas called quinoa the “mother grain” and revered it as sacred. Each year at planting time it was traditional for the Inca leader to plant the first quinoa seed using a solid gold shovel! Quinoa was used to sustain Incan armies, which frequently marched for many days eating a mixture of quinoa and fat, known as “war balls.” Beginning with the Spanish conquest in the 1500s, there was a 400-year decline in the production of quinoa. It became a minor crop at that time and was grown only by peasants in remote areas for local consumption. Read the rest of this entry »