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What Happened to Dose and Context?

By preston | Published: October 27, 2010
Fat is evil. Carbs are evil. Fructose is evil. Gluten is evil. Meat is unhealthy. Vegetarians are unhealthy. You have to eat ‘clean’ to be healthy. Absolute statements like this fill the nutrition and health headlines but are always off the mark. These and other extreme positions fail because they do not allow for the [...]
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The Power of A Local Food Group and Community Supported Agriculture!

By preston | Published: September 14, 2010
Although the idea of local food and community supported agriculture is not a new one, growing consciousness about how wrong things are in the mass-production food industry and recent films like Food Inc. and King Corn have created a surge of interest in urban gardening and farm-to-table food. The benefits of getting most of your [...]
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Why Dean Ornish is Wrong

By preston | Published: September 11, 2010
Hot Air in the Huffington Post In a much-publicized brouhaha this week, Dr. Dean Ornish wrote an article in the Huffington Post summing up his take on a recent observational study comparing animal and plant-based diets.  The cohort study, which was published last week in the Annals of Internal Medicine, studied long-term mortality rates among [...]
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Debunking Junk Science: Goodbye China Study

By preston | Published: July 11, 2010
This extremely well-done skewering of T. Colin Campbell’s The China Study has set the blogosphere ablaze in the last week.  But I had to re-post it here as it deserves all of the attention it can get! Denise Minger, a raw food enthusiast and freelance writer from Portland, Oregon  has done an incredible job of [...]
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This Saturday at South Park Fitness!

By preston | Published: May 28, 2010
Every Saturday from 9:30am-12:30pm I’ll be at South Park Fitness meeting with nutrition/wellness clients and answering anyone’s questions.  Feel free to drop by and check out this beautiful facility located in a remodeled 1912 fire station.   SPF is located at 2211 30th Street San Diego, CA. 92104 in the South Park neighborhood. SPF is run [...]
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Welcome to the Abundant Brain & Health blog!

By admin | Published: May 20, 2010
Welcome to the new site!  I will be blogging here regularly on topics of nutrition, supplementation, scientific research, neurobiology, metabolism, physiology, preventive health and wellness, lifestyle, and other related fields.   Feel free to leave comments and ask questions here in the blog.  You can also use the contact form on the site if you want [...]
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