Here is an amazing statistic I heard in a podcast — 70% of the dollars spent in the US for healthcare are spent on diseases that are caused by the Standard American Diet. We are talking about type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease, hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease, cancer, dementia, fatty liver, polycystic ovarian disease, […]
For the last several weeks, I have been trying to understand the complexities of how our bodies process sugar and fat. For many years I have been predominately living a low-carb lifestyle thus avoiding any form of sugar and starches. Then a couple of years ago the concept of higher health being achieved through […]
Most people are not aware that sugar has two faces to it — one side that can actually be helpful to the body and another side that is destructive to the body. When we look at sugar we see pretty white crystals of lovely sweetness. But hidden beneath that crystalline deliciousness, you find that […]
What do fatty liver, diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart attacks, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, insulin resistance, obesity, high blood pressure, and gouty arthritis all have in common? Uric acid! For the last hundred years, uric acid has been largely ignored by the medical profession unless you showed up with the symptoms of gout. The classic […]
Almost everybody loves sugar, but there are many different kinds of sugar. The lovely white stuff we are all familiar with is called sucrose, which is actually two other sugars hooked together — glucose and fructose. When we eat table sugar in our cakes, cookies, and candy, it is almost immediately broken down into […]
Linoleic acid may sound like some weird chemical you might think you have never consumed. But the truth is the average American has 15 to 20% of the calories in their diet coming from linoleic acid. Compare that to 150 years ago when the average consumption was 1 – 3%. Linoleic acid is the […]
The title sounds like a contradiction in terms. Ketogenic diets are associated with eating lots of fatty meats, cheeses, eggs, and nuts. Vegetarian diets, on the other hand, are associated with lots of steamed vegetables, salads, legumes, whole grains, and wheatgrass juice. On the surface, these appear to be at opposite ends of the […]
I have had several patients come in recently concerned about their cholesterol levels being high. The cholesterol bogeyman has raised its head again in these Covid virus times since the biggest co-factor that contributes to poor outcomes with a bout of Covid is metabolic syndrome, and high cholesterol is often part of the metabolic […]
For many years now I have been telling everyone that the safest and healthiest way to eat is to consume only fresh foods. That means shopping only the fresh vegetable and fruit aisle and the fresh meat aisles of the grocery store. My message has been “If it comes in a printed package, don’t eat […]
Last week I came across an article about the use ofcholine for the treatment of fatty liver disease. This grabbed my attention because many years ago I had acquired fatty liver disease after flirting with fruitarianism for several months. The primary cause of fatty liver is fructose (fruit sugar) or alcohol. Half of regular white sugar is […]