This week’s Gluten Free School Podcast explores the connection between food sensitivities and weight gain. JJ Virgin, nutritionist and author of The Virgin Diet, explains why seven common foods are not only keeping you from feeling better (despite being gluten-free), but actually making you fat. Many of us have more than one sensitivity to very…
Are you afraid to eat fat? I was until I began learning more about the benefits of filling my plate with healthy fats. Though I still feel like a “bad girl” for eating so much fat (especially the saturated kind), I’ve found some real benefits to a gluten free high fat diet (also known as…
Going gluten-free can be good for you, but it takes more effort than what the regular Joe and Jane usually allow for. That’s why I often refer to what most folks in the GF community are eating as the Standard American Gluten-Free Diet (SAGFD). It’s truly the crappy mirror image of the abysmally unhealthy Standard…
Since we recently heard from Dr. Barry Sears all about eating good quality fats, I thought it might be helpful for you to get your hands a little dirty in, well…fat. To be fair, many clients I met sheepishly admit to knowing very little about what fats are food and what are ‘bad’. So, I…
“The Ancient Greeks described inflammation as the ‘internal fire’…which suggests that our understanding of inflammation hasn’t increased that much over the past 2,000 years!” ~ Barry Sears, Ph.D. from Toxic Fat Got inflammation? I’m willing to bet that you’ll answer ‘no’ to this question and most likely you’re wrong. Dead wrong. The reason I…
