Few topics are as near and dear to everyone’s heart as how to lose weight. More magazine covers are spent on this topic in the checkout line at your local grocery store than any other subject. The amazing thing is how many weight loss diets there are out there. How can there possibly be so […]
As most of you know by now, a major focus of my life for many years now has been chronic gut dysfunction as a cause of most degenerative diseases we see in America today. The underlying issue is the Western diet and lifestyle. In fact a study just released this week concludes that the “Western […]
A new year is beginning and since it is a new beginning it is a great time to start a new health goal. New Year’s is a traditional time for creating new goals. Everybody likes to start a new diet to take off all that extra weight put on by holiday eating. Unfortunately the reality […]
For anyone interested in health, concern with inflammation is at the very top of the list. Inflammation is the underlying issue behind almost every disease that kills us or makes us suffer in our modern society. Throughout history infection was the biggest concern. Plagues and infections like tuberculosis, small pox, typhoid fever, and so on […]
Do we need supplements? Can’t we get all the nutrition we need from our food? Why should we take a bunch of pills every day? These are actually very good questions that deserve some very good answers. Let’s start with the question of getting all we need from our food. The simple answer is yes; […]
The New Year is upon us. 2015 was a year full of new research and information in the field of nutrition and weight loss, all of which can benefit those of us who may possibly have put on a few pounds over the holidays. Since today is probably the start of many New Year’s resolutions […]
For the last 100 years the basic chant of nutrition science has been the same everywhere – “a calorie is a calorie.” The idea is that all foods break down into little chemicals that provide fuel for our cells. The belief was that it didn’t matter what the food started out as, because by the […]
I hope you were better to your body than I was this last holiday season. I managed to skip over the first leg of the self-abuse cycle that starts at Halloween with the candy bags two weeks before Halloween that seem to have to be restocked the day before the ghosts and goblins arrived. I […]
One of the basic tenants of diagnosis in Chinese Medicine is to pay attention to any strong likes or dislikes the patient has – especially to foods. Strong likes or dislikes are red flags highlighting imbalances within the patient. Chinese doctors wisely understood that health is all about balance. Any strong attachment to anything produces an imbalance within […]