Year: 2016

The Benefits of Olive Oil and How To Get Them

Extra virgin olive oil douses the inflammation that leads to chronic health conditions like heart disease. The polyphenol-rich extra virgin olive oil also limits insulin resistance, inflammation and oxidative stress, preventing liver disease progression as well.  It’s a healthy oil that you can use as an every day ‘add’...

Guacamole

Guacamole can be enjoyed in so many different ways and it’s so easy to make.  You’ll Need 2 avocados 1/3 cup chopped red onion 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon lemon juice or lime juice 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro Chili powder to taste – optional...

No, You Can’t Prevent All Cancers

My wife’s diagnosis taught me a lot about the disease October, as you certainly know, is Breast Cancer awareness month. Football players are wearing pink, little ribbons show up on lapels, and a slew of articles will no doubt arise about preventing cancer. But like millions of people each...

The Rock Star Duet of Super Foods

If super foods were in a band, the Lennon-McCartney award that I just made up for absolute nutritional rock stars would go to cocoa and olive oil. This study of studies reviewed practically every research experiment on earth to conclude that: “Cocoa flavonoids provided to Type 2 diabetics — and olive oil...

The Magic Mediterranean diet is not a panacea. It never was.

Like magic, the Mediterranean Diet seems to cure all ills — diabetes, heart disease, obesity, crappy food choices. But it can’t cure all of them. You still need to move and be active. Crazy right?  This study looked at 3,358 young people (between 18 and 30 y.o.) with prediabetes, and then...

Baked Honey Tomatoes

Jazz up a meal with this fancy but easy to make appetizer or side dish. You’ll Need: 8 medium tomatoes ½ cup bread crumbs 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon pepper 1 teaspoon tarragon, dried 4 teaspoons honey 4 teaspoons butter Directions: Preheat oven to 350F. Slice off stem ends...

When Brands Collide. My Story.

It’s weird. I started as a neuroscientist, recording brain cells from awake behaving primates to understand how the brain both controls movement and learns new movement behaviors — acquisition and execution. After doing research in France, I saw what everyone else sees and just wrote down a dietary cultural comparison....