Natural sweeteners: A quantity and cost comparison

Found on: http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2016/06/natural-sweeteners-quantity-cost-comparison/ Here’s an interesting comparison I did in my kitchen. In the Wheat Belly lifestyle, we occasionally desire non-wheat, non-grain snacks, desserts, and treats made without sugar or other unhealthy sweeteners. We therefore reach for natural non- or minimally nutritive sweeteners that allow us to have, for example,…

Smoke low-tar cigarettes? The fatal flaw in logic of nutritional studies

Found on: http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2016/06/smoke-low-tar-cigarettes-fatal-flaw-logic-nutritional-studies/ Just because something bad is reduced or eliminated in cigarettes, it should not logically follow that cigarettes must now be good, right? Low-tar, filtered cigarettes may be less harmful than full-tar, unfiltered cigarettes, but still contain heavy metals like mercury, lead, and cadmium, as well as nicotine,…