Dr. Grandma discusses some new research about food cravings. In addition, she shares some pictures from Kauai.

Dr. Grandma shares hints to help families with young children move away from processes, nutritionally impoverished foods. In addition she shares three recipes that young children might enjoy.

Dr. Grandpa discusses ‘Designing Foods for Craving’ in the second part of a series about the real full cost of subsidized commodities that end up as processed and junk food. Dr. Grandma shares a recipe for Exotic papaya and Wheat Berries.

Is there anything that we can do to help our young people (teens and young adults) eat healthy whole foods? This is definitely one of those sorts of problems like leading the horse to the water, but not being able to make it drink.. I think the only rational option for parents, other relatives and […]

Dr. Grandma shares information and ideas for practical ways to reduce intake of empty-calorie sugars. Included are recipes for whole wheat shortcake and fruit desserts.

Dr. Grandpa, who’s Ph.D. is in psychology, tells us a bit about hedonics and the hyperpalatability of American Industrial food as compared with yummy real whole, non-processed foods.

When we have a particular job to get done repeatedly, we look around to “hire” a product or service to help us do that job better. Pancakes for the boring morning commute rise to the top of the chart.

Dr. Grandpa asserts that tastes can evolve, palettes can become more sensitive when refined foods and sugars are replaced with healthier alternatives. He advises taking stock of ones ingrained eating habits and consciously developing new patterns that include downright enjoyment of attractive and yummy kinds of salads.

In this post, Dr. Grandpa relates his surprise at learning that the skinny kid with the sweet tooth who could always eat as much as he wanted had diabetes. He recounts the steps he and Dr. Grandma used to lose weight, lick it, and quit the medicine in 6 months — now sustained for 5 years.

In his first Guest Blogging post, Dr. Grandpa recounts his adventures in something he is calling “Foodland”, a term referring to the marvellous mixture of good and bad food offerings that give so much choice and abundance to the consumer, but at a cost.