Hey Reader,
I have a deliciously moist and light cornbread recipe paired with delectable honey butter to share with you this week. It's classic comfort, cast iron skillet and all. And of course gluten free!
It's also real simple.
But I also want to take a moment to make sure that no one misunderstands my celebration of food and healthy lifestyle as anythign but that.
You are probably following me because you believe that lifestyle and food can improve your life. You might have even had a condition that wasn't fully resolved with conventional medicine and needed lifestyle changes to support your body through healing.
We can change our lives, our health, our weight, our stamina, our strength, our energy and more - every day - with every bite and lifestyle tweak. These are wonderful practices to follow each and every day, to build strong healthy habits that naturally prevent against disease and poor health.
But science and conventional medicine are also important pieces of the puzzle. We must acknowledge the nuance that nutrition, sleep and exercise matter at the same time that we respect and acknowledge that conventional medicine, science, and research matter.
We want nutritionists, therapists and doulas. But we want those lifestyle-based pracitioners to be qualified and educated in their fields. And we want them to leverage evidence-based research when forming their recommendations.
We also want radiologists, oncologists, hospitalists, surgeons, and all the research and infrastructure that supports them when tragedy hits, whether that's a car accident or cancer diagnosis.
Believing that food can change our lives is not the same as believing that science and medicine are not a valid part of our healthy ecosystem. WE NEED BOTH!
If we truly want to achieve a healthy nation, we must support unbiased research. That research must search for truth, regardless of whether that truth matches our preconceived notions. We must read peer-reviewed evidence-based literature to inform our understandings and constantly update our best practices based on what we learn.
We must fight for more science in the field of nutrition and lifestyle, not less.
The health of our loved ones depends on it!
I urge you to check the credentials of all of those from whom you seek advice and make sure they are worthy of your attention. There is a wave of wellness influencers choosing profits over your heatlh, sharing marketing for their products over real solutions. We need to resist the allure of their "one-fit-all" solutions. At best, they are too good to be true. At worst, they will set this industry 10 years back and remove the resources to gain actual traction in lifestyle based functional medicine efforts.
Now, for the tasty treats! Hopefully to give you stamina as you read those credentials and employ skepticism on marketing that sounds too good to be true!
Recipe Spotlight
Jalapeno Skillet Cornbread
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Next time you have a question on the validaity of a nutrition claim, email me about it or try looking it up here.
One of the benefits of publicly funded research, aside from removing industry bias, is that you the tax payer have the right to the results!
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