Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. At no time has that saying been more appropriate. Because a new study has shown that dietary changes can be remarkably effective in reducing [...]
Category: Reality Health Check
Needle in a haystack
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Cranberry boss
Trying to get the upper hand on out-of-control blood sugar? Well new research shows that you might have a new ally in an old holiday favorite. This study looked at tannins from several different [...]
Omega mind
We all want our children to be smart and to make the most out of the opportunities we work so hard to provide for them. Obviously, there are no guarantees in life–and this is especially [...]
Women’s Health Initiative?
Disappearing facts Do you recall that very famous ongoing study called the Women’s Health Initiative? It’s a trial that has been following about 50,000 postmenopausal women for [...]
Eggs are good for you
Scrambled logic One morning recently, I sat down for an interview with a local radio show. They wanted me to talk about some of the food myths that are still so pervasive in our [...]
Soda is poison
Artificial intelligence Too often, my patients assume that artificially sweetened soda is the lesser of two evils. And it’s easy to see how they’d make this mistake. It’s called [...]
Low-carbohydrate high-protein diets fight diabetes
Setting the record straight I’ve told you all about the embarrassingly bad advice that passes for U.S. News and World Report’s most recent collection of the “Best Diabetes [...]
Diet does have an influence on the progression of Cancer
Eat to live While I was the associate medical director at The Atkins Center–working alongside Dr. Robert Atkins himself–we treated many, many cancer patients. And with great success, [...]
Vitamin D deficiency in obese kids a high risk
Sunny deficient Vitamin D deficiency has hit epidemic proportions among all demographics in this country. But obese kids are at especially high risk. There are probably a couple of reasons for [...]