Dr. Bill Schindler's Eat Like a Human
It’s not about WHAT we eat, but HOW we eat it.
We all know eating the right food is important. But despite this awareness, many of us resist making the first move toward improving our diets. Why? Because when we start to peel back the layers, what we uncover about the modern food system can be downright terrifying. Everything we’ve been told about food, diet, and …
Limiting Mechanisms: Why Our Senses Fail Us in the Modern Foodscape For millions of years, human senses and urges have evolved through natural selection, primarily to ensure survival and the continuation of our species. Our senses developed with one primary objective: to keep us healthy enough to reproduce, protect, and nourish our offspring until they, …
The modern industrial food system has added yet another link to our enormously long food chain. Every day for the past few weeks I have heard the same ad on the local country radio station on my way into the Modern Stone Age Kitchen. The supermarket chain, Giant, recently launched an advertising campaign for its …
It turns out I have been providing nutritional advice for at least 36 years! When I graduated 8th grade the yearbook committee included the phrase “You’re putting too much salt on that food” under my picture in our 1987 Shrewsbury Grammar School Yearbook. Even then, I must have been a real pain in the ass, …
My mom used to tell me I had tunnel vision. And, I guess she was right. Throughout my entire childhood whenever I set my mind to something I was all in. No distractions. The goal was the only thing that mattered. Every step I took was made in an attempt to achieve what I set …
A meal ended with a lip While in college my teammates and I would pack a lip after we ate. This post meal ritual, while vile and disgusting, served an important role for us. By placing chewing tobacco (usually Copenhagen) in our mouths, we simultaneously forced ourselves to stop eating as it was practically impossible …
My quintessential “cheat” food before I went on a diet has always been the Boston Cream Donut. Whether, in preparation for a “New Year, New You” on New Year’s Eve, or even on random days when I was unhappy with my weight, it always meant a quick drive to Dunkin Donuts to purchase three Boston …
