A link to the World Health Organization’s FAO paper on the effects of our dietary choices on the environment seems timely, given recent weather related disasters brought on by climate change. It’s late in the game to make an impact, but it is not too late. https://www.fao.org/3/a0701e/a0701e00.htm →

To put it bluntly, it’s irrelevant. Why? Because humans are still evolving. If our evolution had come to a halt over ten thousand years ago, before agriculture was invented, then, yes, our ancestral diet might still matter. Agriculture, however, has changed many things, including our genome (Carmody et al, 2016). Prior to the onset of →

It is a little known fact that most medical doctors (MD’s) in the United States (and probably Canada) know little more about nutrition than the average person, regardless of the latter’s occupation.  During the 70's – 80's, a handful of medical schools provided some semblance of nutrition training.  In the 90's, as the roles of →