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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 […]

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Fermenting!

Well I finally took the plunge.  I have been edging up to it for over a year now, but I actually did it last weekend.  I pulled out my trusty salad shooter and grabbed my freshly bought organic cabbage, daikon, bok choi, onion, broccoli, cucumbers, and carrots from the farmers market and went to work.  […]

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Health Action Plan

The most common complaint I hear from patients regarding their medical doctor is that no matter how many complaints they may have, if their lab tests are normal, the doctor does nothing.  We know that something is wrong when we feel bad.  That is the whole point to bad feelings – to tell us that something […]