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Food Additives To Avoid

In an ideal world you would avoid all food additives that don't have any useful nutritional value. As a rule preparing food from scratch, using whole foods, is often the healthiest approach. However this isn’t always practical in today's busy world where social and/or work commitments come first or where certain food ingredients simply aren’t available in their raw form. Read more.

Cosmetics, Helpful or Harmful.

What ever happened to simple? If you are like a lot of people who question food, drug and cosmetic quality, you might be trying to understand what is really in your favourite cosmetics and whether they are doing you good or harming your health? Read more.

The Compromising Effects of Phytates

Phytate, also known as Phytic acid, is a nutrition-compromising substance (anti-nutrient) that binds to essential minerals like calcium, iron and magnesium. Once bound, these minerals may not be absorbed as easily in the intestines. Read more.

The Dangers of Lectins

Lectins are proteins normally bound to carbohydrates found in almost all plant foods. They are chemicals naturally produced by plants as a defense against insect attack and high concentrations of these substances are found in grains, beans and nuts. Read more.

W.H.O. and Red Meat

Recently the WHO announced that “red-meat” was a carcinogen, as bad for you as smoking. At least that’s how media immediately presented it. Of course this flies in the face of 2,000,000 years of evolution as an omnivore and the fact that hominids as far back as homo-erectus were using fire to cook meat. Read more.

The Various Hidden Names of Sugar

It's no wonder when sugar is added to everything why there is rising obesity, diabetes and autoimmune disease. From personal experience we at LEN know that removing sugars and starches from the diet is the tested solution to controlling body fat levels. Read more.

What's Up With Sugar

Research has shown that consuming excess sugar is detrimental to health. The implication is that the food pyramid might be upside down. Read more.

The Power of Omega 3 Fatty Acids.

As part of a low starch low sugar diet, the advantages to health of Omega 3 fatty acids are understated. Because our modern western diet is so low in fats and high in sugars people tend to get too little omega 3 (three). With the vegetable oil industry selling the benefits of grain-based polyunsaturated oils most people may be eating too much omega 6; a fat often associated with cancer, heart disease and inflammation. Omega 3 from fish oil in that case is known to be a natural mitigator. Read more.

To GMO or not to GMO

We at LEN are not necessary against GMO products (genetically modified organisms) but we do feel they need to be carefully researched and fully tested independently and documented transparently before being released to the public. Besides the immediate safety of using GMO products there are often a lot of environmental questions to consider. For example: When GMO technology is applied to crops, can insects become immune to the proteomic effects designed into the plants. Does that make them harder for organic farmers to control ? Additionally if GMO designers make a plant resistant to herbicides so it can be drenched in stronger poisons over its lifetime, how are the fruit or grains that the plant produces affected? Who gets to decide how much herbicide in our diet is ok? Perhaps the voting public should get more of a say. Read more.