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Ghetto Gut

I like my neighborhood.  It is very quiet and everyone watches out for each other.  We get together in the little court on the 4th of July for a big barbecue and snow cones.  It is all very cozy and safe feeling. But what would happen if a crack dealer moved into the neighborhood?  Strangers […]

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Chewing

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.Hippocrates Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.Hippocrates All disease starts in the gut.Hippocrates Hippocrates is considered the father of medicine.  He […]

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That’s not the problem

My first intention approaching this article was to go into whether gluten is as bad as the present science is showing it to be.  But as I started thinking about the subject, it became obvious that all kinds of things get put into the villain category by our science that we the public blindly accept […]

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What’s Eating You?

Since this article is coming out Thanksgiving weekend – a weekend commonly spent eating more than usual – a food article seemed appropriate.  But lets turn this story around.  Let’s consider what is eating us, rather than simply what we are eating. By now we have all heard about how there are ten times as […]

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Enzymes

Enzymes make everything happen in your body.  They are like little protein robots that take things apart and puts them back together in different ways.  They manufacture everything in our body.  They also disassemble foods we eat into basic building blocks, so we can build what we need to become us. We are experiencing an […]

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Starch – friend or foe?

Is starch good for you, or bad for you?  The question is not really about starch, but about you.  Look around, everyone you see and know all look different.  Check out who is wandering around the grocery store and notice the huge diversity of body shapes and sizes.  We are all different on the inside […]

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Weight Loss 2016

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 […]

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Taking Out the Trash

  Have you noticed how much effort it takes these days to stay healthy?  When I was a little kid diabetes was a rare almost unheard of disease.  We all knew about heart attacks, but nobody my parents or their parents knew had had one.  Cancer was not even a word that was in the […]

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Strengthening your back

A surprisingly large number of the low back cases I see each week are because the patient’s back is simply not strong enough to support them during stressful activities.  Very small percentages are due to actual injuries like slips and falls or auto accidents.  About 30% are not even a back problem, but a gut […]

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Jicama Prebiotic

  Jicama, sometimes referred to as Mexican turnip or yam bean, is a fascinating vegetable.  It is actually the root to a legume – like a green bean.  But don’t try to eat the beans on the Jicama as they are toxic.  In fact the whole plant is toxic except for the inside of the […]