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Just when you thought the diet craziness came to a crescendo in the 1970s, the next few decades continued the ridiculous trends.  Check this out: If the 70s were all about liquid protein, the next two decades seemed to be about completely escaping reality. The 1980s and 90s were a wild ride filled with neon fitness tapes and those so-called "miracle" pills.  You didn't miss part 1 did you? The "Sleeping Beauty" Diet Ever hear of this one? In the 80s, one trend took the idea of "beauty sleep" to a whole new level. Enter the Sleeping Beauty Diet. The concept was pretty straightforward: if you’re knocked out, you can’t eat. Followers would take heavy sedatives to sleep for days on end, and there were even whispers of celebrities giving it a go. It wasn’t just lazy; it was downright dangerous. Overdosing on sedatives can lead to respiratory failure, and let’s be real—your body needs real nutrients to function, not just a long nap. The Fen-Phen...

We're not trying to trigger anyone around here. But, we got even more heat from this article and (even) this article . We want to reiterate that the Fibermaxxing series is informational only. We are not promoting this option at all.  All we are doing is letting you know about it and allow you to choose. We got a message sent through our contact form that kind struck us, like an uppercut punch. ✊  " I don't know what you all think you're trying to do here, but this is an unproven diet plan that you REALLY need to do some research on! I cannot imagine a more reckless position to take by bringing this to your audience and presenting it as being legitimate! Shame on you! Sincerely, Sophia "  Once again : * This article isn’t meant to strongly support or dissuade your decision. As always, we’re simply presenting what modern research says — and reminding you that you and your physician should decide what’s best for your personal health.* Well...we love you...

If you pay attention long enough, you can see when the old saying: "If it sounds too good to be true, then it isn't true" becoming a fact of life everyday. Take weight loss, for example. Somebody's always got a weight loss secret to sell you.  It's literally been that way for years. Let's go back a few years in time just to prove this point to you. Weight loss in the 1960s wasn’t just about salads; it was a whole chemistry experiment.  People were chasing quick results, and some doctors were more than willing to help out.  Enter the infamous "Rainbow Pills".  The Psychedelic Diet of the 1960s These colorful tablets looked like candy, but the ingredients were anything but sweet. Each dose packed a punch with amphetamines and barbiturates, along with laxatives and thyroid hormones.  The idea was to rev up your body, while the barbiturates were there to keep you from shaking like a leaf! By 1968, a shocking exposé in Life magazine revealed the grim trut...

New to the whole resistant starch thing? You’re in the right place. This is the companion piece to our main deep-dive — think of it as the “wait, but what about…” article for people just getting started. So wait, is this just regular potato starch from the grocery store baking aisle? Probably not. Most potato starch sitting next to the cornstarch has been processed, pre-cooked, or otherwise messed with in ways that destroy the resistant starch content. What you want specifically says “unmodified” on the label.  Bob’s Red Mill is the brand most people start with, and it’s widely available. If the label doesn’t say unmodified, assume it isn’t. Why would I eat raw starch?  That sounds weird. Fair reaction. But “raw” here doesn’t mean you’re eating something dangerous or gross — it just means it hasn’t been cooked, which is what preserves the resistant starch. It’s virtually tasteless and dissolves easily into cold liquid. Most people mix a spoonful into water, a smoothie, or juic...

A deep dive into unmodified potato starch, resistant starch, and why your gut bacteria are starving. Let me paint you a picture. You’re at the grocery store, staring at a bag of Bob’s Red Mill Unmodified Potato Starch. It’s $4.99.  It looks like baby powder.  The label says almost nothing useful. You pick it up, put it down, pick it up again, and then put it in your cart because some guy in a health forum wouldn’t shut up about it. Good call.  Put it back in the cart. Because unmodified potato starch is quietly one of the most interesting things you can add to your diet — and almost nobody’s talking about it in plain English. It’s not sexy like collagen peptides.  It doesn’t have a celebrity endorsement. It won’t make your smoothie turn a cool purple color. But what it does do — down in your gut, where the real action is — is genuinely remarkable. Let’s break it down without the lab coat. unmodified potato starch What Even Is Resistant Starch? Most starch gets ...

We caught a lot of heat from some readers about our last article on this diet option. We decided it was a good idea to highlight some counterpoints on this subject for fairness sake.  So, please don't hate us: Fibermaxxing is having a moment. Suddenly fibermaxxing feels like it's everywhere Fibermaxxing didn’t come out of nowhere—it rode the wave of a much bigger shift. Search interest in things like “ gut health ,” “ fiber foods ,” and “ blood sugar balance ” has been climbing steadily, and now the internet has done what it always does: packaged it into a trend with a name. “ Fibermaxxing ” just happens to be the version that stuck. Scroll long enough and you’ll see it framed as the missing piece: better gut health , fewer cravings, smoother digestion , more stable energy. Add some chia , hit 40 grams, fix your life. And to be fair, fiber does matter. Most people probably need more of it. But whenever a single nutrition idea gets this much momentum, it’s wo...