Triple Threat: Three Reasons to Avoid White Flour

Bag of Robin Hood brand flour

Over the past year I’ve been telling people about this real food expedition, one of the most common questions I hear is around white bread: is it really that bad? After all, everybody eats it. Even the artisan bakers at my local farmers’ market question me about the values of 100% whole wheat – isn’t […]

If you gain weight, it’s YOUR fault, not ours

Clover Leaf Tuna Package with dietary advice "eat fish twice a week"

In 2008, I took a class as part of my Master’s degree called Food Policy. If you were sitting in the room with me, you’d remember me getting fired up about nearly every issue we discussed, from the fortification of flour with folic acid to genetically modified organisms (GMOs), sometimes to the point where I […]