I try to eat fermented foods at least once or twice a week to facilitate the restoration of beneficial bacteria and a healthy gut. Like fat and organ meats, this is one of those stellar foods that most folks are lacking in their diet. Since I have not yet found the time to ferment my own [...]

When Tom Woods first announced, a couple of months ago, that he was considering kicking the federal food pyramid out of his house, he got amazing responses. I believe Tom mentioned that he had more comments from his “Should I go Primal?” post than any other previous post on his website. This is a nice [...]

I know that some of my libertarian-Austrian Economics colleagues worry about my blog becoming a paleo/primal/foodie blog (and it won’t), however, some things food-related are just too good to pass up for the KDC blog. I love to make bone broth during the winter months. Bone broth is one of the most natural, satisfying, and [...]

Here’s conservative-libertarian writer Jack Hunter on his experiences going paleo (eating real food) and telling the establishment to stick it. But what continues to fascinate me is the generally conservative premise of the Primal Blueprint — that the experts who’ve told us for years that eating whole grains and fiber was a healthy alternative to [...]

In spite of the fact that 40 years of the government’s dietary guidelines, the launching of countless health agencies, and force-feeding Americans the USDA-approved health and wellness paradigm has only made people fatter and sicker, some folks think that rinse and repeat is a viable strategy. Counting calories is still a popular fetish in spite [...]

Dr. Brownstein, author of Salt Your Way to Health, says – “Lower your salt intake? No way!” Dr. Brownstein analyzes a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. For years, I have been lecturing and writing about the nonsensical argument the conventional powers-that-be claim that lowering salt in the diet will reduce your risk [...]

Just recently, I published a post about the congressional battle to preserve the interests of the rent-seeking flock, led by Big Agra-Big Foods. The Wall Street Journal has since published an article about the Obama Administration’s resistance to the congressional definition of pizza as a vegetable because this does not fit well with Michele Obama’s wonderful little war [...]

If you read this article in full (“Pizza is a vegetable? Congress says yes”), it’ll read like a comedy skit. The USDA, Congress, food companies (including huge players like ConAgra Foods and Schwan Food Company), and industry lobbyists (for frozen foods, potatoes, and salt) have been fighting over what non-food foods will be available for [...]

By now, the word is out on honey – that most of what consumers buy ain’t really honey at all. Even the Food Safety News can occasionally run a good article – “Tests Show Most Store Honey Isn’t Honey.” After testing honey sold in grocery stores that was found to have little or no pollen, [...]

My latest article is up at LewRockwell.com: “21 Days Away From Dumping the Federal Food Pyramid.”