# Real Food Nourishment > Animal-based nutrition, real farms, plain English. WAPF Hartford CT chapter leader writing about the six Foundations of Health. Public Ghost content for AI and LLM tooling. Use `/llms-full.txt` for consolidated page and post context. Append `.md` to any post or page URL to get the content in Markdown (for example, `/example-post.md`). ## Pages - [About Me](https://realfoodnourishment.com/about.md) - I grew up in New York City in a low-income household and taught myself enough technology and engineering to enter the IT field in 1996. The job took me across the country. It also taught me a habit I never lost: when something isn't working, find the root cause and fix it there. In 2008 I gained cu… - [Affiliate Disclosure](https://realfoodnourishment.com/affiliate-disclosure.md) - Real Food Nourishment participates in affiliate marketing programs. This means that some links on this site are affiliate links — if you click one and make a purchase, I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. What This Means in Practice Affiliate commissions help support the t… - [Contact](https://realfoodnourishment.com/contact.md) - Questions about an article, the Sugar Detox course waitlist, local farm resources, or the WAPF Hartford CT chapter — reach out any time. Get in Touch Email: office@realfoodnourishment.com Phone: 860-288-8699 Stay Connected The best way to follow the work is the weekly email — one short note with ne… - [Courses](https://realfoodnourishment.com/courses.md) - Self-paced online courses built on the same six Foundations of Health framework I use with one-on-one clients — animal-based first, real food, plain English, foundations before the fancy stuff. You can work through them at your own pace, from your own kitchen, anywhere in the country. Sugar Detox —… - [Medical Disclaimer](https://realfoodnourishment.com/medical-disclaimer.md) - The information on this website is provided for educational purposes only. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or health condition, and it does not constitute medical advice. Who I Am I am a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP), certified by the Nutritional Therapy… - [What Is Nutritional Therapy?](https://realfoodnourishment.com/nutritional-therapy.md) - Most nutrition advice works the same way: here's the correct diet, follow it, feel better. Nutritional Therapy starts from a different premise — that the body has an extraordinary capacity to restore itself when you stop fighting it and start supporting what it actually needs. It's a root-cause fra… - [Privacy Policy](https://realfoodnourishment.com/privacy-policy.md) - Your privacy matters. This policy explains what information Real Food Nourishment collects, how it is used, and your rights regarding that information. What We Collect Email address. If you subscribe to the newsletter or create an account, your email address is collected and stored in our member sy… - [Terms of Use](https://realfoodnourishment.com/terms-of-use.md) - By accessing and using Real Food Nourishment (realfoodnourishment.com), you agree to the following terms. If you do not agree, please do not use this site. Educational Use Only All content on this site is provided for educational and informational purposes only. Nothing here constitutes medical adv… - [Find Real Food in Connecticut — WAPF Hartford CT Chapter](https://realfoodnourishment.com/wapf-hartford-ct.md) - The Hartford County chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation is led by Jose Luis Diaz, NTP. Our focus is connecting people in the greater Hartford area with nutrient-dense, traditionally sourced food — local farms, raw dairy, pastured meats, farmers markets, and real-food stores. For chapter infor… ## Posts - [Tallow Is Back: Why Your Great-Grandmother Cooked With It](https://realfoodnourishment.com/tallow-is-back.md) - Walk into a kitchen from a hundred years ago and look at what is next to the stove. Not a plastic jug of pale yellow oil. A crock of rendered fat. Tallow from beef, lard from pork, butter from the cow, drippings saved from the last roast. For almost all of human cooking history, that is what people… - [Do You Really Need Fiber? What the Evidence Actually Says](https://realfoodnourishment.com/do-you-really-need-fiber.md) - There is one piece of diet advice so universal that almost nobody stops to question it. Eat more fiber. It is on the cereal box, in the doctor's office, on the side of the bread bag. Whole grains, bran, "keeps you regular," "feeds your gut." It is treated less like a suggestion and more like a law… - [The Vegetable Oil Fraud: How an Industrial Product Became Health Food](https://realfoodnourishment.com/the-vegetable-oil-fraud.md) - Short answer: The vegetable oils sold as heart-healthy, canola, soybean, corn, and sunflower, began as industrial products, not food. They were rebranded over the last century, replacing the stable animal and fruit fats humans had always cooked with. Here is how that switch happened and why it matt… - [The Sun Did Not Change. We Did.](https://realfoodnourishment.com/the-sun-did-not-change-we-did.md) - Short answer: The sun has not become more dangerous. What changed is us, mainly modern diets heavy in seed oils and processed food, which alters how our skin handles sunlight. Sensible sun exposure is a basic human need, not something to fear. Here is what actually shifted. Have we been lied to abo… - [The Cholesterol Myth: How We Were Taught to Fear Our Own Food](https://realfoodnourishment.com/the-cholesterol-myth.md) - Short answer: For most people, eating cholesterol-rich real foods like eggs and red meat does not cause heart disease. That fear grew out of a shaky 1950s theory that was never firmly proven. Below, I trace where it came from and what our ancestors ate instead. For more than half a century, America… - [Steak and Eggs: The All-American Breakfast or Heart Attack on a Plate?](https://realfoodnourishment.com/steak-and-eggs.md) - Short answer: Steak and eggs cooked in butter is a genuinely nourishing breakfast, not a heart attack on a plate. The idea that it is dangerous rests on decades-old fat and cholesterol fears that do not hold up. Here is why this old-fashioned plate still works. There was a time when a working Ameri… - [Does Red Meat Really Shorten Your Life?](https://realfoodnourishment.com/does-red-meat-shorten-your-life.md) - Short answer: The claim that red meat shortens your life leans on weak observational studies, not proof that meat is the cause. Unprocessed red meat is one of the most nutrient-dense foods humans have ever eaten. Here is what the research really shows when you look closely. You have been told, more… - [Are Plants Secretly Working Against You? The Truth About Anti-Nutrients](https://realfoodnourishment.com/are-plants-secretly-working-against-you-the-truth-about-anti-nutrients.md) - One camp says eat more plants. The other says plants are quietly working against you. The older, calmer answer is more interesting than either. - [Are Medical Errors Secretly a Top-Three Killer?](https://realfoodnourishment.com/are-medical-errors-secretly-a-top-three-killer.md) - Short answer: Some analyses estimate medical errors rank among the leading causes of death, yet they rarely make headlines. Hospitals save lives in emergencies, but the everyday risk deserves more attention than it gets. Here is what the numbers suggest. We are taught to think of hospitals and doct… - [How to Wean Off Acid Reducers: A Step-by-Step Guide](https://realfoodnourishment.com/how-to-wean-off-acid-reducers-a-step-by-step-guide.md) - Short answer: If the real problem is often too little stomach acid rather than too much, then coming off acid reducers has to be done gradually and correctly. This guide walks through tapering safely and supporting digestion as you go. Always work with your provider before changing any medication.… - [The Heartburn Myth: Too Much Stomach Acid or Too Little?](https://realfoodnourishment.com/the-heartburn-myth-too-much-stomach-acid-or-too-little.md) - Short answer: Most heartburn is not caused by too much stomach acid. It is often linked to too little, which lets food sit and ferment. That matters, because the usual fix can work against the real problem. Here is how to think about it. Here's a story I've heard a hundred times. Someone gets heart… - [Why I Do This](https://realfoodnourishment.com/code-of-ethics.md) - When I first got certified as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, I wrote a careful little code of ethics. It leaned on the Nutritional Therapy Association's official version, it was respectful of conventional medicine, and it was honest. I meant every word at the time.I'm rewriting it now because… - [NSAIDs and Pain Relievers: What They Actually Do (And the Dietary Root Cause)](https://realfoodnourishment.com/how-do-anti-inflammatory-drugs-such-as-aspirin-nsaids-and-steroids-relieve-pain.md) - Short answer: Painkillers like ibuprofen work by blocking a natural body process that exists for good reasons, which is why they carry costs. Often the deeper issue is diet-driven inflammation you can address first. Here is what these drugs actually do and where the pain usually starts. When you re… - [What Is Bio-Individuality? Why There's No One-Size-Fits-All Diet](https://realfoodnourishment.com/what-is-bio-individuality.md) - Short answer: There is no single perfect diet, because the same food can help one person and bother another. Bio-individuality means your body's needs are your own, so the goal is finding what works for you, not following rules blindly. Here is what that looks like in practice. When I first went Pa… - [Digestion: How It Works, What Goes Wrong, and What to Do About It](https://realfoodnourishment.com/how-proper-digestion-of-our-food-especially-fats-is-vital-to-our-health-and-the-immune-system.md) - Short answer: Digestion is not just a stomach event. It is a chain that starts in your brain and ends at your colon, and when any link breaks the effects ripple through your whole health. Here is how it works and where it commonly goes wrong. Most people think digestion is a stomach thing. You eat,… - [What to Expect in a Nutritional Therapy Consultation](https://realfoodnourishment.com/nutritional-therapy-practitioner-assessment-tools.md) - Short answer: A nutritional therapy consultation is not a rushed doctor visit with a prescription. It is a longer, detailed look at what is actually going on with you as an individual, so the plan fits your real life. Here is what the process looks like. A nutritional therapy consultation doesn't l… - [The Foundations of Health](https://realfoodnourishment.com/the-foundations-of-health.md) - When a system is broken, the worst thing you can do is treat the symptom. I learned that in IT. It turned out to be even more true for the body. ## Optional - [RSS Feed](https://realfoodnourishment.com/rss/) - [Sitemap](https://realfoodnourishment.com/sitemap.xml) - [Full content of pages and posts](https://realfoodnourishment.com/llms-full.txt)