Drew Ramsey

A large study recently published in the British Journal of Psychiatry found that eating processed foods, such as refined carbohydrates, sweets, and processed meats, increased the risk of depression by about 60%. Eating a wholefood diet, on the other hand, decreased the risk of the disease by about 26%.

While the brain accounts for about 2 percent of your body’s weight, it burns 20 percent of your body’s fuel. That’s because the brain is the body’s command center—the most complex supercomputer ever created.

Animal fat—the kind that doesn’t come from factory-farm animals eating unnatural diets—is anything but unhealthy for the human body. It’s what we’ve been subsisting on for tens of thousands of years. It’s what your body was designed to eat.

When we’re told to cook meat thoroughly to prevent foodborne illness, it’s not because raw meat is inherently dangerous, but rather because cooking factory-produced meat thoroughly helps to kill off any dangerous bacteria that might be lurking in our hamburgers.

We’re omnivores by nature and, as such, we rely on a complex set of nutrients from minerals, plants, and animals for optimal health.

When humans hunted and gathered their food, they ate a much wider variety of plants. ... One of the most pristinely preserved of these humans’... stomach was stuffed with an astonishing 66 different species of plants—an astonishing variety considering today we only eat about twenty different plants.

Thomas Jefferson grew more than 150 species of fruit and some 330 vegetables on his estate, Monticello.

It might be surprising to hear, but sugar is a relatively new food in our diet. For the vast majority of human existence, no one had access to this sweet substance.