Author Archives: Dr Kaayla Daniel

There’s nothing natty about natto. This old-fashioned soy product is made from whole soybeans that have been soaked, boiled or steamed, and then fermented.    It’s known for its sticky coat, cheesy texture, musty taste, sliminess, stringiness and pungent odor. … Continue reading

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A study in the journal Medical Hypotheses published January 30 has been scaring people away from eating soups and stews made with old-fashioned bone broth.   Entitled “The Risk of Lead Contamination in Bone Broth Diets,” it reports broth made … Continue reading

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Is there no end to the foods and other products that can get soy’led?   Probably not, and these days soy could be lurking anywhere and everywhere.   Although soy can seem like a renewable “green alternative” to petroleum products, … Continue reading

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Cancer’s on the rise in Zambia, a country in southern Africa, and soy might be the culprit. Martin Sampa, a researcher from the University of Zambia School of Agricultural Sciences, appeared before the Parliamentary Committee on Health, Community Development and … Continue reading

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Over the past past year I’ve attracted a lot of vegan rage about the blogs I’ve written on how a high fructose diet may have contributed to the pancreatic cancer that killed Apple founder Steve Jobs. Today’s news provides some … Continue reading

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Steve Jobs lived more than 30 years after developing pancreatic cancer thanks to his vegan diet. That’s the preposterous claim made by Dr. John McDougall in a lecture that has been viewed by more than 52,500 people on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81xnvgOlHaY … Continue reading

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What’s Tofurky? It’s a vegan “roast” made primarily from tofu and wheat gluten.  It smells strange, is oblong shaped, and said to taste like turkey, at least by vegans who’ve either never eaten real turkey or have very distant and … Continue reading

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Scary energy drinks such as Monster, Red Bull, Rockstar and Full Throttle are in the news this Halloween season.  Sadly, the dangers are very real. The drinks come in colorful cans with buzzworthy, even Halloweeny, designs, and are one of … Continue reading

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“Soy Exacerbates Seizures in Mouse Models of Neurological Disease” is the title of an  important new study that came out last week in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.1 Soy has long been associated with ADD/ADHD, depression, anxiety, dementia and other … Continue reading

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In the movie Forks over Knives, T. Colin Campbell, PhD, and Caldwell Esselsytn, MD, promote the myth that low-fat, plant-based diets confer protection from heart disease. Dr. Esselstyn even flat out guarantees that vegans will never have a heart attack.  … Continue reading

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