Nutritionist and speculative fiction writer.
Our metabolism is like a campfire. When we eat food and drink, it's sent to the liver to be metabolized and burned away like wood to produce heat (calories). If we hork down too much, like three out of every four people in America, we’re tossing a large amount of wood on a fire that... Continue Reading →
Gone are the days when we simply looked at the Total Fat value on a nutrition label and could tell if a food was healthy or unhealthy. If the fat was too high, it was bad for us; if the fat was low, it was good for us. Done! Well, it’s not the 1990s anymore.... Continue Reading →
The word Antioxidants is tattooed everywhere we shop for food—from cereal boxes and sports drinks to waters and nutmilks—you'd think consuming them would lead to immortality. But through all this antioxidant hype from food marketers, there’s one question that comes to my mind: What in the hell is an antioxidant? As a registered dietitian, I... Continue Reading →
Mike Sieminski 