What is in Your Milk?

Do NOT read this report and expect to ferret out what the they’re talking about. Figure this out: Lower input non-organic and organically produced milk has been found to contain significantly higher levels of beneficial fatty acids, vitamins and antioxidants compared to higher chemical use sources, a new UK...

Why McDonalds Changed the Oil

What is the significance when Fast Food giant McDonalds decides to go trans-fat free? According to this report, McDonalds is responding to public pressure to improve its image. As the most salient smiling image of unhealthy food, they fight the reputation of contributing to our nation weight and health...

Brain Aerobics

What does one need to do to keep the brain sharp and active?What miracle cure, special formual, and elixer vitae does the trick? This report is a potent reminder that the best solution is the common sense solution. Engage in your life … and you will be better able...

Grilled beef tenderloin with Yukon hobo packs

This recipe seems long, but it’s only because there is some explaining that needs to be done regarding the hobo packs. But it is mostly just common sense, and once you put this together once you will see that it’s really easy to toss together. And don’t let the...

Mediterranean Diet for Diabetes Prevention

Are you surprized by this? The Mediterranean diet is protective for heart disease, obesity, and now Type 2 diabetes. In our own work, we have shown that our Mediterranean diet can also be effective in treating and reversing the glucose instabilities of uncontrolled diabetes. See our data here. These...

If you Just Say NO to HRT … then what?

I just wanted to add in this link to a site that goes over the foods that can help with the symptoms of menopause without increasing your risk of cancer and stroke. I like this resource because it relies on foods, rather than drugs that can increase your risk...

Cherry-Berry Bread

Cherries are “in season” in the early summer, and it is a perfect time for this delicious bread. Make this bread on a saturday when you want a sumptuous nibble, late in the morning. Remember that the cranberries and cherries are really, really good for you, but this doesn’t...

Supplements Do Harm For Cancer Treatment

We’ve been coached to substitute pills for food, to take one-a-day to boost, and enhance, and improve, and [insert miracle here]. But where does the coaching come from? Research science, carried out by independent research labs, does not support the incredible premise that we can improve on the miracle...

Childhood Obesity Takes a Breather

The Journal of the American Medical Association just reported that Childhood Obesity has not increased over this past year. The yearly up-sizing of our nation’s youth — and the down-sizing of our nation’s health — has paused to catch its breath. Think about the long long steady run —...

FDA Cuts the GRAS on Salt

Here’s what we know.1) Excess salt consumption is linked to heart disease and stroke.2) The Food and Drug Administration wants Americans to have fewer heart attacks and strokes. But their proposed solution to the problem is to consider changing the status of salt in the diet. The way they...

Hormone Replacement Therapy Redux

It’s back. Even though articles like this one remind us that women who take HRT are at an increased risk of stroke, and your risk of this life-threatening event is not decreased if you are young or old, more articles are appearing that attempt to re-introduce this pharmaceutical. One...

Misleading Titles on Vitamin B Supplements

The title of this article is as follows: Supplements a solution for B6 deficiency, says study But the study said nothing of the kind. This is a glaring example of the slippery slope of inferrance. Here is the opening line, which follows the misleading header: “Researchers at Tufts University...