Year: 2009

This is a terrific article showing how lifestyle chanes are not only more effective at protecting your heart, it is cheaper and more long lasting too!! Lower Your Risk Of Heart Disease Without Drugs Sent from my iPhone...

I was to be called when everyone was together to go to dinner, then we'd go together. Never got the call. So I'm eating alone at the bar at a Mexican restaurant in the adjacent mall. Nice. Actually, it's not so bad. I think I have charged too much...

This story show that Americans are never more than 107 miles from a mcDonalds. A McDonald’s Is Never More Than 107 Miles away How close are we to a farmers market? My guess is that it’s further. I wonder why we have such drastic health problems … Maybe it’s...

I'm in Dallas this weekend for the Obesity Help conference. I'll be speaking tomorrow. This is a group that I'm very excited to approach and coach. This group needs a structure of solutions around which they can Start applying healthy lifestyle solutions. And these solutions must be ones that...

Paul Rozin is a food psychologist who studies different cultures and the way they interact with their food. In his surveys, he recently asked his groups if they would prefer a pill to get all their nutrients rather than food. Of all the cultures studied, Americans were the most...

Ever listen to Click and Clack, the Tappert brothers, on NPR? They talk about perhaps the most boring subject on the planet … car repair. But you can’t listen to that program for more than 10 minutes without cracking a smile or just laughing out loud. Why? Because THEY...

Words are funny. Grains like quinoa, sorghum and teff are called Ancient. Okay, corn is just as ancient as those, as is wheat, potato, and rice. But what they MEAN by ancient is that it has not been messed with by us as much. There is a wide sense...

Get ready because the Swine Flu pandemic is going to hit hard this year in the US. There is a great deal of concern and misinformation about this new virus, and we should take care to know the facts. The US Government has a wonderful summary website with tons...

When it comes to our health, it is critical to get past hyperbole and straight to the sane middle ground. We are now in a debate that is awash with misinformation, disinformation, and absurdities. The thing about this that is so frustrating is that it’s so important to get...

Here’s The Problem Millions of people – including a substantial number of the “worried well” – take a daily dose of the drug in the belief it will keep them healthy. But at a conference for leading doctors, British scientists said they have found that for healthy people taking...

This great article was just released in the L.A. Times reporting on Brain Scans taken while people taste either normal sugar or a number of synthetic sweeteners. Here’s the bottom line: You may taste it (subjectively) as sweet, but your brain doesn’t take it (objectively) the same way. If...

Need another reason to eat well? How about brain damage?? Obesity degrades your brain. Not only obesity, even overweight does it. What does this mean? Loosing your Gray Matter can’t be a good thing, but the study below only looked at the volume of brain tissue — not how...