Recovering from Soy: The Toxic Metal Component

by Dr. Kaayla Daniel

What’s the first step in soy recovery? Eliminating soy from the diet, of course, but for the average American this is easier said than done. In brief, we must cut out processed, packaged and fast foods and return to a traditional diet based on whole foods, real foods and slow foods. The next step is [...]

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Recovering from Soy

Hidden soy exists in thousands of everyday foods and cosmetics as well as products such as cardboards, paints, cars, biodiesel fuels, fabric softeners, mattresses and even books printed with soy ink. This is a nightmare for people who are allergic to soy and a challenge for those who are sensitive to it or who just [...]

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Heart of the Matter: Plant-Based Diets Lead to High Homocysteine, Low Sulfur and Marginal B12 Status

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that 16.7 million deaths occur worldwide each year due to cardiovascular disease, and more than half of those deaths occur in developing countries where plant-based diets high in legumes and starches are eaten by the vast majority of the people. Yet “everyone knows” plant-based diets prevent heart disease.  Indeed [...]

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Creepy Foods!

    It’s Halloween time, and once again our newspapers are spooking readers with stories about “creepy food.” So what are these creepy foods?   Heart, liver, kidneys,, sweetbread, tripe and other organ meats.   Bones are considered especially gruesome as can be seen in blood curdling photos of chicken feet “clawing” their way out [...]

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Not Taking the EWG Pledge!

The Environmental Working Group has asked Americans to go meatless once per week and “Take the pledge to eat less and greener meat!”   Chef Mario Batali and other celebrities have gone on board to help EWG enlist 100,000 people who will sign the pledge, commit to eating a more “veg centric” diet, and “build awareness” [...]

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Lose your Veganity!

Think a vegan diet is the ticket to personal and planetary health?   Seen Forks Over Knives and become convinced that animal products will be the death of you and the planet?  Then it’s time to lose your veganity! Yes,  lose your veganity.   Let go of the wishful thinking that pervades vegan myths and open up [...]

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Ice Cream/Vice Cream

Do you prefer your ice cream, hard or soft?    Hard ice cream can be good for health and libido, if and only if, formulated with cream, sugar, nuts, fruits or other real food ingredients.   As for the soft serve, it’s mostly full of cold air.   Problem is the remaining ingredients of corn [...]

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Soy Hidden Health Dangers

Over the past two decades, soy has been widely promoted as a ‘miracle’ food that can prevent heart disease, fight cancer, fan away hot flashes and build strong bones and bodies in far more than 12 ways. Sales of soy foods topped $4bn in the USA for the first time in 2004, with most segments [...]

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Talking Tofurky

Eager readers want to know how to incorporate the “health benefits” of soy into their Thanksgiving dinners. As The Naughty Nutritionist, I suggest we not eat soy this Thursday but speak it.    In other words, let’s talk tofurky.   Given that laughter is the best medicine, I present a baker’s dozen examples of soyspeak [...]

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Soy to the World: Holiday Wishes from Whole Foods Market

This holiday season Whole Foods Market is offering gift boxes and certificates brightly printed with the wish “Soy to the World.” Whole Foods Market, of course, perceives soy foods and soy milk — particularly modern packaged and processed soy products — as a major profit center.   Soy also fits nicely within CEO John Mackey’s [...]

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Plants Bite Back!

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” That’s Michael Pollan’s response to the question of what we should eat, and few people doubt that answer today. Whether it’s Whole Foods Market’s recent decision to downplay animal products or vegan actresses touting “kind diets,”it sometimes seems as though every educated man, woman and child in the [...]

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Plants Bite Back!

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” That’s Michael Pollan’s response to the question of what we should eat, and few people doubt that answer today. Whether it’s Whole Foods Market’s recent decision to downplay animal products or vegan actresses touting “kind diets,”it sometimes seems as though every educated man, woman and child in the [...]

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The Wit, Wisdom and Naughtiness of Julia Child

Julie and Julia comes out this weekend and I can hardly wait.  Child has long been one of my heroes and we share the same birthday — August 15.  How great to celebrate mine this year with this very special movie. As a naughty nutritionist who goes against the grain, I cannot help but love [...]

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A Naughty Banquet Menu

            A Slightly Facetious Proposal for an Upcoming Conference   APPETIZERS Caviar Oysters Calf Testicles Fried in Bacon Sweet Meats SOUP Boner Broth SALAD Cucumber in Quivering Gelatin Salad INTERCOURSES: Love Birds Zucchini, Artichoke, Asparagus Fingerling potatoes DESSERT   Banana Split: Two balls ice cream, chocolate sauce (Presented with banana [...]

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Dr Hazel Parcells: The Original Naughty Nutritionist

Frisky enough to follow me to San Francisco?    Lots to arouse your interest at Wise Traditions 2008, including my introduction to the work of the original Naughty Nutritionist, the incomparable Dr. Hazel Parcells (1889-1996). Dr. Parcells was a feisty redhead with straight shooting advice.  “Honey, if you are ever to be healthy and stay healthy, [...]

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Singing the Low Carb Blues

  Over the past decade, soy has been widely promoted as a “miracle” food that can prevent heart disease, fight cancer, fan away hot flashes and build strong bones and bodies in far more than 12 ways.    Lately its health-building reputation has been kicked up yet another notch as the perfect solution for low-carb [...]

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George Clooney Declines to be the Scent of Mr. Tofu!

Several years ago the LA Tofu Festival asked, “Who is Mr. Tofu’s  Match?”   If PETA — the animal rights organization  known for bringing attention to its cause through blood, gore and nudity –  gets its way, Mr. Tofu will finally become irresistible — with the smell, if not the looks — of George Clooney. [...]

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Like Sex or Chocolate

Cadbury Chocolate did a survey, and announced with great fanfare last month that more than half the women in the UK would rather curl up with chocolate bar than let a man get a leg over. That’s not good news for those British men who like to boast that they’ve got more than a stiff [...]

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SOY NAUGHTY!

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69 Weird and Wickedly Funny Facts about Soy by Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN 1. The Los Angeles Tofu Festival this year stars a blocky “Mr Tofu,” a spongy fun guy who says “it’s hip to be square.” Has soy fried his brain or have things changed since I took geometry in 1967? Looks like [...]

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MR. TOFU GOES DATING

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The theme for this year’s L.A. Tofu Festival held last weekend was finding Tofu’s “perfect match.” To this end, hundreds of ingredients went on “blind dates” with Tofu and soon after gave birth to “an exciting assortment of specialty dishes.” Or so the publicists would like us to believe.         Among the [...]

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PRACTICE SAFE SOY

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Lots of talk these days about sex education and safe sex. That got The Naughty Nutritionist™ thinking about what it might mean to Practice Safe Soy. Here’s seven hot tips, with none too hot to handle. • Use soy as a condoment . . . err, condiment. Soy was traditionally eaten in Asia as a [...]

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