One of the things that I don’t like about the various “healthy eating” trends are people’s tendencies to demonize certain foods. I’ve been guilty a time or 2 by making some foods appear worse than they are, I’ll admit. But...
The ketogenic diet is not a fad. It’s not just a weight loss diet either, even though there’s a lot of hype and marketing directed at getting people onboard the “keto train.” While the ketogenic diet is great for weight...
One of the beverages health professionals like myself are asked about frequently is coffee. Because coffee is a drug (well, caffeine is a drug) and it obviously has stimulatory properties, people can’t help but think it’s bad for you. Makes sense,...
In my office, one of the methods I always mention for helping improve overall health is boosting gut health. I’d be willing to guess many of you reading this have probably learned over the past few years that the health...
Cancer is the bane of our collective existence in the 20th century. It seems like it won’t leave us, and part of that may be because of something that’s happened in the 20th century. For the past several decades researchers have...
When most people hear the word “diet” they think of things like restrictive food recommendations...or kicking X type of food in favor of another. That’s an unfortunate way of thinking about diet, as a diet should simply be a predictable way...
According to the most recent studies, about 1 in 7 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lives and approximately 1 in 39 men will die from prostate cancer. This makes prostate cancer one of the deadliest diseases...
If you’ve spent any amount of time on Facebook or alternative health sites, you’ve probably encountered this theory. Eating sugar leads to cancer...or sugar is absolutely essential for sustaining cancer growth. As I do more and more research on the...
It sure was a weird winter this year, wasn’t it? My readers in the Western portion of the United States noticed that not a whole lot of snow fell this year (making them wonder if they even had a winter)....
