November 6, 2013
November 6, 2013
November 5, 2013
Did you know that most medical doctors don’t know much about nutrition? It’s true. Maybe they’ve taken a class in medical school about the basics and, unless they pursue nutrition further, they really don’t learn much about it. As a result, they often tell their patients that if they eat a “balanced” diet, that’s all they need to maintain good health.
November 1, 2013
October 31, 2013
Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that may interfere with the body’s endocrine system and produce adverse developmental, reproductive, neurological, and immune effects in both humans and wildlife.
October 30, 2013
I have some patients who have to take statins – cholesterol lowering drugs – at least for a while. Their former diets of too much animal fat contributed to high “bad” LDL and too low “good” HDL. In addition, adding too much refined sugar to this mix created inflammation throughout their bodies – and as a result, they developed plaque buildup in their arteries.
October 25, 2013
A cancer diagnosis is probably just about the scariest news anyone could ever receive in their life. It can also be very confusing. There’s tons of information to weed through and it’s very easy to become overwhelmed, scared, and discouraged.
October 23, 2013
Food was cathartic for Max Sala, something that held his life together and at the same time tore it apart. As a child he ate for comfort, arriving for his freshman year of high school, as he put it, “significantly overweight.” Then Sala, now 19 and a student at the University of California at Davis, started losing weight and couldn’t stop. Sometimes he would go days without eating. Other days he would ravage his family kitchen in the middle of the night, gorging himself, and then purge. Purging, he said, was “like a breath of fresh air.” To this day, […]
October 22, 2013
The processed food industry wants you to believe that fructose is a natural, healthy sugar derived from natural plant sources. The science shows something vastly different. In reality, fructose is a harmful toxin that is a key factor in the development of metabolic syndrome in America today.