Choosing a Healthy Diet
By Steve Gagné
What is Healthy Food?
Just what is “healthy food”? Ideally speaking, healthy food can be defined as natural foods: plant foods that are grown either organically or biodynamically, and animals …
Read More...Dangerous Brains
By Steve Gagné
Diet Extremism in the 21st Century
Part 1: Reexamining the Case for a Low-Carbohydrate Diet
Proponents of a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet use the following general outline of human evolution and reasoning to …
Read More...Traditional Ancestral Diets
By Steve Gagné
Two Ancestral Lines
When considering traditional ancestral diets as a model from which we can draw to improve our own food choices for better health, we must understand that these diets …
Read More...The Golden Spiral of Traditional Foods
By Steve Gagné
The following chart is a representation of dietary proportions roughly based on the well-known mathematical model called “The Golden Rectangle.”
This fascinating …
Read More...The Energetics of Food
By Steve Gagné
In this age of chemical additives, preservatives, and the onset of GMOs (genetically manipulated organisms), we are faced with serious concerns about the quality of our food and its effect …
Read More...The Origin of Agriculture
By Steve Gagné
Theories of Plant Domestication
In the distant past, a few Homo sapiens made a decision that altered the biological, psychological, and spiritual essence of humanity. That decision was to work in …
Read More...The Prehistory and Re-Emergence of Agriculture
By Steve Gagné
Reconsidering Human Origin
While the age of information progresses at an ever-increasing speed, we Homo sapiens are faced with extraordinary challenges individually and as the reigning species on this planet. More …
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