The average American consumes approximately four times as much sugar as nutritionists recommend, and that may be a conservative estimate. Given the grim statistics about the rise in chronic illnesses, many of which may be linked to what we eat, that’s probably no surprise. But did you know that added sugars not only impact our waistlines and health outcomes, but can also have profound effects on the ways our brain work?
At its most basic, the biome is a habitat. And as it turns out, our bodies are home to more microbiomes than we can count. “One of the areas where there’s huge expansion right now is the finding that almost each region of the body seems to have its own unique microbiome,” says functional medicine specialist Dr. Jeralyn Brossfield of XO Health and the Brain Treatment Center in Rancho Mirage.
Eat more protein? Check. Eat more fiber? Check. Eat more fat? Wait — really? Few topics in nutrition stir as much debate as fat: how much of it we should eat and what kind. Starting in the 1970s, the U.S. government began urging Americans to adopt low-fat diets.
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“My brother used to joke, ‘Why would I go to Vegas? I gamble every day at work,’ ” George Tudor says. “That’s what farming is, especially when you farm a permanent crop.” As the president of Tudor Ranch, a third-generation family farm located in Mecca, he grows mostly...
We may not know where they come from, but we sure like to drink ’em.
