Although fish is definitely one of the healthiest forms of lean protein, it is very important to eat wild-caught high quality fish that is free of contaminants. This is especially true for pregnant women, because eating fish containing even low levels of mercury [...]
I have seen a lot of patients with allergy problems this week. Most of you probably know that allergy medications tend to temporarily suppress symptoms and do nothing to address the cause of our allergies. Symptoms can be our body signaling that something [...]
Your stomach produces acid for a reason. It breaks down your food and begins your body’s process of absorbing nutrition from your food. Antacids are, literally, “anti-acids.” They neutralize your stomach acid so it can’t perform this function. Anyone think this might create [...]
Losing weight, by itself, does not magically restore good health. People who are overweight tend to be reaping the consequences of an overall unhealthy lifestyle, malnutrition, toxicity, excess stress, submission to a sick food industry, and disconnection with nature. While it is certainly [...]
If you take just 18 sleeping pills in a year – about once every three weeks – you may be more than tripling your risk of death. Researchers in the UK have recently published an alarming study in the British Medical Journal that [...]
Just as yo-yo dieting is bad for weight loss, having an on-again, off-again relationship with working out is not good for your health. Stay on track with these tips. Work out like crazy. Slack off. Work out like crazy. Slack off. Sound familiar? [...]
Does the word "holidays" conjure up images of cookies and pies, gorging yourself on turkey and all the trimmings, and consequently packing on the pounds? It doesn't have to! Healthy eating can be a realistic goal during the holiday season; however, this goal [...]
Our skin is often a helpful indicator of what’s going on inside the body. Common symptoms such as acne can be a sign of hormonal imbalance or, in the case of deep cystic acne, also food allergy. The body’s reactions to undiagnosed food [...]
Eating a lot of sugar-laden and high fat foods will change the flavors that our taste buds expect. So if you give your children a lot of sweet, salty, high fat foods throughout the day then these are the flavors their taste buds [...]
Some popular television may have a negative effect on children’s brain function. New studies are examining whether fast-paced, fantastical television has short- and long-term effects. One study divided sixty 4-year-old children into three groups. One group was shown a nine-minute segment of Spongebob [...]
