Eating healthy is no longer just taking vitamins and being done with it. Now more than ever you have the responsibility to take care of yourself and know what to put into your body – especially since so much information is available for free and […]
Walk into any health food – organic – homemade – grass fed – free range – gluten free – type store (and oh they’re popping up like mushrooms after a storm) and you’re bound to see shelf after shelf of so-called ‘healthy food’ – foods […]
Recently, I went on a mouthwatering harvest of all the craziest and best uses of bacon across the Internet. I encountered disturbingly huge meat piles and delicately constructed bacon triumphs. Now, though, I’m turning to the opposite of wrapping things in bacon then wrapping them […]
Let’s not kid ourselves, women aren’t the only ones worrying about aging anymore. With the male skincare range growing yearly, men are becoming just as concerned about their appearance as women. With that in mind, I bring you the 5 foods that slow down the […]
Last week we took a look at the dangers of simple carbohydrates and refined grains. If that left you looking at your pantry thinking ‘what can I eat then?’ it’s time to get experimental with your grains! Yes, it’s possible to buy wholegrain pasta, but […]
There is nothing inherently wrong with carbohydrates, in fact, low-carbohydrate diets can lead to malnutrition, constipation, enervation and vulnerability to chronic illness. But when we change the makeup of naturally-found carbohydrates, a healthy and natural food source is converted into something quite different. Simple carbohydrates, […]
Last week we dug deep into one of the most commonplace dangers in our modern diet, sugar. So, let’s help you out of the woods. These natural wonders not only offer more variety of flavor and texture to play with in the kitchen than white […]
In 1900 the average yearly consumption of sugar was 5lbs per person, a figure which sky-rocketed to 150lbs by 2000. In the last decade, consumption has increased a further 23%. Where sugar was once used sparingly, sugar has found its way into almost every processed […]
When it comes to losing weight and building healthy food habits, we here at BaDoink know just how hard it can get. So when we find something that works, we keep at it – or we try to. One thing that we found to work […]
No substance that goes into our bodies does so without causing an effect, and in recognizing this fact we can begin to examine everything we put into our bodies as either medicine, or a slow form of poison. There’s no trick to it: eat some […]
Continuing on from Part One of Crowding Out, dealing with the glut of food date out there, Ashton Miles takes a look at the possible answer to the question of ‘What can I eat?’ Emerging from the low-fat, low-carb, low-everything diet hangover, we find ourselves […]
In Crowding Out, Part One, Ashton Miles starts taking a look at the difficulty we face when navigating the ever-changing seas of nutritional data It is relatively recent in the history of our species that we come to have experts telling us what we should […]
Fish, baby! Brain food? The experts out there say you have to consume plenty of Omega One. Yet our oceans have become so depleted of wild fish stocks, and so polluted through industrial contaminants, trying to figure out which fish is which can be confusing. […]
Metabolism; your younger brother seems to have mastered it and is able to wash an entire pizza down with a tub of ice cream without gaining a pound, while you dip and diet, unable to keep things stable. Genetic makeup has a lot to do […]
It was not too long ago in our evolutionary history that man either killed or plucked from the earth with his own hands, whatever was for dinner that evening. Skip forward a few Darwinian heartbeats, however, and the majority of us now utilize one-stop mega […]
Although they’ve been a staple in the diet of South American natives for several millennia, chia seeds have only really gained popularity in the Western world in recent years. Chia seeds are an annual herb that grows primarily in Mexico and Latin America. A member […]
Did I get your attention, Internet scoundrels? I hope so, because I’m about to plant a truth tree and y’all gonna watch that delicious thing grow. I’ve been reading Michael Pollan and butting into conversations between vegetarians and vegans for some time now and I […]
