Spoiler alert, it is. Recent evidence supports meat's benefits for longevity and challenges old claims that it causes heart disease. If your health, religion, or ethics preclude dietary meats, vegetarian and vegan diets can be healthy with dairy and artificial supplements.

New American dietary guidelines recommend eating real, nutrient dense food of the types we have evolved to eat. This represents a significant improvement over previous guidelines and emphasises how good health begins on our plate, not at the doctor, and that prevention is better than cure. In are healthy meats, dairy, vegetables and fruits. Out are unnatural, highly processed food and seed oils that have resulted in chronic diseases.

Two important lessons:

1. Teach kids to cook from scratch

2. Doing your best is all that’s required

Another article in the popular press, this time highlighting the health benefits of reducing industrially processed food and cooking from scratch.

Spring in the north is a time of a rapid increases in daylight hours and temperature. These drive equally rapid growth in biological activity in the world around us and in our own bodies. If we connect with the natural world at this time of year we can literally feel the increased energy. This article describes how I do that.

Here comes the sun…get a suntan…safely

This is the inspirational story of one young man finding the strength to figure out for himself how to use his diet to reverse poor mental health.

If, like me, you believe that exposure to the natural world is important for a healthy life, how can that be achieved? I believe we are adapted to consume real, local food, regularly replenish our microbiome, feel the sun’s warmth, and benefit from touching the earth. This article is the first in a monthly series describing how I do that…even in chilly February.

I’ve never been good at predicting things, especially the future. We’ll see if this plan survives exposure to the field of battle. Two big things…we need to take care of ourselves…this means being exposed to the natural world we evolved alongside. Think real food, the microbiome, sunlight, and the earth’s electrical charge.

My wife and I initially struggled with how to eat more healthily. These 11 cookbooks gave us the confidence to get rid of the seed oils, sugars and starches, and grains that formed the basis of our unhealthy eating habits and the roadmap to adopt a new, healthy lifestyle. Eating healthily can be cheap, easy, quick, and delicious. No matter what we’re in the mood for, there are tasty recipes available.

Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) was the main topic of a recent conference I attended. I learned a lot about the cause, detection and treatment of T2D and wrote this article to summarise what I saw and heard.

“Food is the bedrock of health. Our food choices can either lead to disease or create health and vitality.” I defy you to read this story and not be inspired by one woman’s story of how she reversed the debilitating symptoms of multiple sclerosis with food. She now leads a healthy, relatively normal life