California’s McEvoy Ranch makes high-quality real extra-virgin olive oil, available by mail order and at gourmet stores. McEvoy’s acclaimed oil maker, Deborah Rodgers, also recommends Australia’s Boulder Bend, sold under its Cobram Estate
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“Pure prebiotics can be bought at the pharmacy or drugstore. These include the prebiotic inulin, which is extracted from endives, and GOS (galacto-oligosaccharides), which are isolated from milk. These”
― Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
― Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
“The most reliable pork and chicken label is “USDA Organic” (used mainly for meat and much different from the FDA’s version of organic), which requires a 100 percent organic diet, no antibiotics (ever), and bans feed made with synthetic pesticides. For poultry shoppers, Smart Chicken is a national brand owned by Tecumseh Poultry, founded in 1998 to fill the void in the quality chicken market. It comes in organic and regular versions, both of which are completely antibiotic and animal by-product free, using a 100 percent vegetarian or 100 percent organic vegetarian diet. I buy Smart Chicken regularly. For pork, the Niman Ranch brand is antibiotic free with a 100 percent vegetarian diet.”
― Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do About It
― Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do About It
“Japan has a lot of really great beef, like Matsuzaka, but outside of Japan only Kobe is known,” said Troy Lee, an Australian who is the head chef at the Oak Door steakhouse at the Grand Hyatt Tokyo.”
― Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do About It
― Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do About It

“Preliminary studies carried out at Harvard and in New York have shown that the two antibiotics metronidazole and gentamicin cause particularly hefty changes in the flora of the gut.”
― Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
― Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ

“Mindful yogurt manufacturers often use bacteria that produce more dextrorotatory (right-turning) than levorotatory (left-turning) lactic acids. Molecules of the two kinds of lactic acid are mirror images of each other. Feeding the human digestive system with levorotatory lactic acid molecules is like giving a left-handed pair of scissors to a right-handed person: they’re hard to handle. That is why it is a good idea to pick yogurt from the supermarket shelves that states on the container: “Contains mainly dextrorotatory [or right-turning] lactic acid.”
― Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
― Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
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