Frederic Patenaude's Blog, page 17

Why Raw-Foodists Have Such Bad Teeth and What to Do About It

What I’ll share with you in this article may come as a shock to you, but there are some things that need to be said about the real *weak link* of the raw food diet.

Metabolic Types and the Raw Food Diet

QUESTION:

Are you familiar with Metabolic (or more, recently, nutritional) Typing as recommended by doctor Mercola? I suspect that your recommendations are accurate for a carbo type but may not be accurate for protein type or mixed type.

Why I Quit Caffeine: Lessons From My Caffeine

I’m going to be frank and honest with you, in a way that many “gurus” of raw foods and natural health never are.

The Raw Superiority Complex

When I first became a raw-foodist, I would refer to my life prior to my discovery of raw-foods as “when I was cooked” and I would often express annoyance with my “cooked” friends and family.

Taking Massing Raw Food Action!

Do you sometimes find yourself in a state of low energy, a little depressed perhaps, or just “gross” in general? Maybe you wake up one day and realize that for the past few days you’ve been feeling kind of low.

Health Obsession and Fear-Mongering

A few months ago, I spent time with a guy who’s well known in some raw food circles. He considers himself to be quite an expert in the topic of raw foods and alternative health, and indeed knows a lot about it.

Are Grains Healthy to Eat?

Should you eat grains? The debate rages on in the diet community, and many people are still confused about the role of grains in the human diet.

The Coconut Trend Is Getting Worse

Last year, I talked about the fact that coconut oil was more popular than ever among natural health enthusiasts, despite solid evidence that’s it’s one of the worst oils you can put in your body. 

The No-Pleasure Trap

There’s a great book by Alan Goldhamer, director of the TrueNorth fasting center, and Doug Lisle, a psychologist who’s done a lot of work in collaboration with Dr.

From Always Travel to Never Travel

Way before the pandemic hit the world, I had fallen out of love with world traveling and what some people describe as the “nomadic lifestyle” or “digital nomad lifestyle.” I went from traveling all the time to not traveling at all.