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Grazers Immunity

February 22, 2016 by joshua iufer

I was thinking the other day during my annual flu shot about this idea of herd immunity. For those that don’t know, herd immunity is the idea that when you have a group of 10 people, if 9 of them receive a vaccine then the last person is indirectly protected (at least within their normal circle of friends). This has been shown countless time with the HPV vaccine most young girls receive. I wondered whether this might show up elsewhere in […]

Categories: NUTRITION • Tags: Diet, Dietitian, Food, Health, Meals, moderation, Paleo, real food

(Un)Healthy Showmanship

December 12, 2015 by joshua iufer

Hey Foodies! Sometimes picking my fingers back up feels like waking from a long nap, slightly creaky, a little groggy. Part of my quiet has been a major life change, a move, closer to family and childhood friends. But the other part is simply a lack of inspiration. I have always held that I didn’t want to write about something that I didn’t feel strongly about. I’m not in this for the views, I’m just looking to provide a reasonable perspective on […]

Categories: NUTRITION • Tags: Diet, Food, Meals, Nutritionist, Paleo

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Who Says You Shouldn’t Eat Meat?

February 27, 2015 by joshua iufer

Have you ever wondered whether us humans were meant to eat meat? What about animal products in general? I don’t want to convert you or convince you and I certainly don’t want to delve into ethics or the environment. All I want is to present a case for our biological preference for animal-foods, without all the politics. In a roundabout way, Nutrition is really the science of what our bodies can’t make themselves. After all, if humans could photosynthesize like plants, […]

Categories: NUTRITION • Tags: Diet, Dietitian, Health, Meat, Omnivore, Paleo, Vitamins

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A Modern History of Diets

January 12, 2015 by joshua iufer

It’s an interesting thing that so little of my actual experience revolves around “fad” diets. With a title like Dietitian you’d think there would at least be some course or seminar somewhere in my career that broke it all down. It’s the opposite in fact, I could probably count the number of fad diets mentioned in a medical setting on one hand. Step out into mainstream nutrition and suddenly everything is “diet this” and “diet that”. So over time I’ve […]

Categories: NUTRITION • Tags: atkins, Dieting, Dietitian, History-of-diets, ornish, Paleo

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Brave Nutrient World

September 24, 2013 by joshua iufer

Admit it or not, our lives are increasingly run by algorithms. Little mathematical computer programs choose what we see, how we see it, and when we see it. I took a short course in Anthropology in college, lot’s of assumptions, ample amounts of political correctness. What stayed with me however, was this concept of ethnocentrism. Put simply, it states that you and I, are in no place to judge those from different backgrounds. We were raised with different biases, effectively […]

Categories: TECHNOLOGY • Tags: Algorithm, Ethercentric, Filter, Health, Internet, Nutrition, Paleo

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The Pursuit of Truth

July 18, 2013 by joshua iufer

To learn what we don’t know, we must question what we think we know. This is the sign of a true scientist. Us humans are strange creatures, we carry our pride like a blindfold around our faces. Instead of keeping an open mind to new perspectives, we tighten our blinders and dig our heals in. I myself am not immune to this phenomenon. Despite years of training, I find myself mentally fighting the urge to reject “out of the box” […]

Categories: DIETETICS • Tags: Diabetes, Nutrition, Obesity, Paleo, Peter Atia

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Tip of the Iceberg Lettuce

February 20, 2013 by joshua iufer

The world of Dietetics is enormously minuscule, mind the contradiction. Registered Dietitians, R.D.s for short, pop up in just about everyplace where food or medicine is federally funded. Why then do they seem sparse? Go up to your friendly neighborhood stranger and ask them where to go for nutrition advice, the answer in 9.5 out of 10 of them will undoubtedly be “Nutritionist”, condolences to the half person. If you are lucky enough to get the real answer of Registered Dietitian, 50 Bucks […]

Categories: DIETETICS • Tags: Diet, Dietetics, Keto, Nutrition, Paleo, Science