by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Jan 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
Red meat has long been an anathema to the nutrition establishment. Not being privy to the thinking of the originators of the so-called heart-healthy diet, we assumed it was because of the association of meat with its burden of saturated fat and cholesterol, two food...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Jan 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
Recent biochemical research into the metabolism of the essential fatty acids seems to have uncovered a major underlying cause of breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers. This biochemistry tells us that this cause is the modern American diet and that simple dietary...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Dec 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
THE IMPORTANCE OF DIETARY ANIMAL FAT1 Animal fat was evolutionary man’s major source of energy. Ancient humans lived primarily on eggs, fish, animals, and other living creatures. Dietary sources of glucose were minimal. Human biochemistry is in agreement with these...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Nov 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Since shortly after World War II, when Ancel Keys and wife Margaret concluded that diets high in animal fat were the cause of cardiovascular diseases, an inestimable number of large, long-term studies have been conducted worldwide to look for proof of a causal...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Nov 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
When I started work as Public Health Toxicologist with the California Department of Public Health a little more than fifty years ago, the word “toxic” was seldom heard much less used as a topic of conversation. In recent years, the word has been discovered and become...
by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Sep 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
“A 3-Year-Old Mute Girl Miraculously Starts Talking After Cream Cheese Diet.” This headline appeared in the news for several days in July, 2013 (1). It is a true story about a little girl who lives in England. It is also an excellent starting point for a discussion...
