Dr. Randall Hansen Articles on Nutrition, Nutritional Healing | Dr. Randall S. Hansen, PhD: Healing Advocate, Educator, Thought-Leader

Nutrition/Food/Diet Healing Articles & Resources

Healing Revolution Diet Health Assessment. This free assessment is about taking an honest reflection on how you feel. Food and lifestyle factors impact your health more than you may realize.
Timeline of Our Food & Health Demise. Learn the many factors from the past 70 years that have affected our misunderstandings of food, health, and nutrition. Why are we so unhealthy? Find the answers.

Are Ultra-Processed Foods Killing You? Learn everything you ever wanted to know about ultra-processed foods and their impact on health and lifespan.
Change Your Grocery Shopping and SAVE Your Life. Learn about hyperpalatable, ultra-processed foods, which use the savory-sweet-fat combination to overstimulate our brains.
The Connection Between Soil Health and Human Health. Soil health and human health are connected in multiple ways, but the biggest connection is that both soil and humans have microorganisms that are critical to health and longevity.

The Deadly Truth About Our Sugar Addiction. We are culturally addicted to sugar… refined sugar. Sugar is pervasive in our culture. Every holiday is a sugar holiday, with specialized candies, cakes, cookies. Learn more.
Diets Don’t Work… and Other Truths About Food. Dieting – the idea of restricting foods – does not work, and often leads to increased weight gain after any initial weight loss.

Eight Solutions for Healthier Eating. Healthier eating means healthier living, so please consider implementing these eight solutions, which are fairly simple to implement.
Embracing Cooking as a Critical Life Skill. Cooking is one of those vital life skills, along with other critical personal and household hygiene skills, such as cleaning, first aid, basic repairs, and financial/money management that everyone should have.

Factors Leading to Our Current Health and Healing Crisis. While the ultra-processed foods we consume are the leading factor, learn about all the other factors negatively impacting our health.
15 Reminders of Living the Healing Revolution Diet. Find the 15 underlying principles of leading a healthy life.
50 Things You Can Start Doing Today to Improve Your Health -- discover 50 things you can start today for your health.
For Good Health, Please Consume (More) Fiber! Fewer than 1 in 10 Americans are getting enough fiber in our diets. Learn how to consume more fiber.

Healing the Mind, Body, and Soul. If you are struggling right now, here are five ways to start trying to heal your mind, body, and soul.
Healing Starts With Eating Real Food: No More Fast Food. Are you overweight? Often fatigued? Part of a healing journey has to be changing your relationship with food.
Healing Your Heart Starts With What You Eat. Americans tend to eat a fairly poor diet, resulting in poor heart health. But you don't need a drug to heal, just better nutrition.
Health and Nutrition Tips for Back to School. Expert tips for what parents and schools can do to improve the health and welfare of the children.
Hold the BEEF! For Your Health, Eat Only Sustainable, Pastured Beef. Looks at why we should be doing our best to purchase and eat pastured, grass-fed beef raised locally.
How and Why Eggs Should be a Key Part of Your Diet. Eggs are a superfood that should be part of your diet, of your daily nutrition.

Imagine a World... Imagine a world where healthy food is available to all, where all our systems are fixed and people focus on prevention.
Keys to Truly Understanding Food Labels. Food labels are designed to mislead. This article informs consumers how to read food labels, what items to review, more.
Metabolic Health and Metabolic Syndrome. Learn what you need to know about the best way to determine your health.

Purge Your Pantry For Health and Healing. Don't let food marketers trick you. Most of the food sold in supermarkets is literally unhealthy junk food. Purge your pantry!
Stop Poisoning Your Loved Ones on Valentine's Day. Sugar is a poison, so why show your love on Valentine's Day or any day by giving candy other sugary items?
Sugar is Safe? No. It's a Health Hazard. Sugar has never been safe, and today, with most packaged and frozen foods containing added sugar, it is leading to deadly health conditions, including cancer.
Ten Dangerous Foods/Ingredients to Eliminate From Your Diet. Food marketers drastically altered foods and ingredients over the past 40 years to the point that many are negatively affecting our health.
Tips for Creating a Wellness Kitchen. The kitchen used to be the centerpiece and gathering spot in our homes, but it has been replaced with the family room. It's time for a wellness kitchen movement. Learn how.

Vegetable Oils Are Ubiquitous? Yes… and Please STOP! Are you still using vegetable, soybean, corn, canola, sunflower, and other seed oils in baking and cooking? Do you know it’s also in most prepared foods? Learn more.
Vegetable Seed Oils in Your Food. Vegetable seed oils, which are known to be inflammatory, can be found in almost all ultra-processed food products, including in grocery stores and fast foods.

What You Need to Know About Plant Antinutrients. Learn the truth behind the headlines concerning the dire need to avoid lectins and oxalates.
Why Protein is An Essential Part of Any Diet. Are you getting enough protein in your diet? Protein consumption has to be a major part of your meals because it is essential for our bodies and our health.
Why Supplement With Medicinally Magical Mushrooms? Learn how these amazing superfoods can help your body and brain, including fighting chronic inflammation and some cancers, as well as boosting the gut.
Why You Should be Eating Seasonal Foods. Historically, people had no choice but to eat produce in season; now we get many unseasonal crops from Central and South America rather than local farms.

Why We Face a Major Health Crisis. Many chronic health conditions we are facing today come mainly from the extremely poor foods we are eating
Why We Need a New Victory Garden Movement. Our food system is broken. We are in a nutrition/health war today. We need is a home garden movement.
Why We Should Care About Healthy School Meals. We need healthy, attentive, active children eating the highest quality of foods for their growing bodies and brains so that they can grow into the productive citizens of tomorrow.