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 [...]
Want an easy way to eat healthier? Try creating an inviting atmosphere for eating at home. A new study, probing why people tend to eat more nutritious meals at home than away from home, suggests that psychological factors involved in eating pleasantly at [...]
I strongly encourage all my patients to stay away from aspartame. If you’re still consuming this poison, let me bend your ear for a moment. Aspartame is the most commonly used artificial sweetener in the United States. It represents over 50 percent of [...]
You can imagine that an acidic environment is bad for living cells. The following are three foods that skew the body towards an acidic (not the healthier alkaline) pH. The restoration of the health-promoting alkaline state is essential to the regeneration of bone [...]
Heartburn, acid reflux, GERD – whatever you call it, millions of people suffer this gastrointestinal malady on a daily basis. Patients coming in to LiveWell to see me for upper back and neck problems are often pleasantly surprised when their acid reflux improves. [...]
I get asked this question a lot. The short answer is, between 30 and 40 grams per meal. Protein requirements for generally inactive people are around .8 g/kg of body weight. But active people’s protein needs can be up to 100 percent higher [...]
Antidepressant medications might be associated with an increase in clogging of the arteries, according to new observational data presented at the American College of Cardiology 2011 Scientific Sessions. Interestingly, the study looked at a large sample of male twins, enabling researchers to focus [...]
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