We recently attended an employee health fair and were shocked to see that fast food was served for breakfast and the only nutrition handout provided was basically an advertisement for various fast food chains. This handout gave “worst, better, and best” choices at each restaurant based on the number of calories and grams of fat. [...]
Vitamin B12 has many uses in the body and especially affects the nervous system. It is known to cause mental retardation in developing children who are deficient in this vitamin. But does it affect the mental acuity of adults? A recent study suggests that vitamin B12 deficiency may be partly responsible for poor cognition in [...]
Learn how to make a wonderful soup to help your immune system fight off the flu this winter.
Bone broth is a delicious and extremely economical way to improve the health of the digestive tract. Bone broth helps soothe an inflamed digestive tract and helps to rebuild the intestinal lining. It is also an excellent source of gelatin, good fat, and minerals for your own bones. Here is a great article called “Broth [...]
The foundation to any health care plan is nutrition. If you don’t have the nutrients your body needs, it will not perform well and you get sick. Much of what we do with our patients is educate and recommend diets. There are so many conflicting theories on nutrition that it can make your head spin. [...]
Antioxidants are a requirement for health. Oxidation is breakdown of tissues. When fat is oxidized, we say it goes rancid. When iron oxidizes, it rusts. When your apple oxidizes, it turns brown. When people oxidize, they age, get sick, and eventually die. We are exposed to a lot of toxins from our environment and foods that causes oxidation of tissues. Our own [...]
Lacto-fermentation allows us to more easily digest many foods. If one looks at the digestive systems of herbivores, you will find multiple stomachs able to hold and ferment difficult-to-digest plant foods. This allows the ruminants (cows, goats, etc) to live off of grass where we cannot. We can imitate this process by fermenting our food before we even [...]
Ingredients: Fresh Whole milk (preferably raw, never ultrapasteurized) A good organic plain commercial yogurt with live cultures (7 Stars, Stonyfield, Brown Cow) Equipment: Glass Jars (wide-mouth quart mason jars work very well) Stainless steel or glass pot large enough to hold all of the milk Candy thermometer (needs to reach to 150 degrees F and [...]
Vitamin D (cholecalciferol) has been described as a vitamin, but it actually has more characteristics of a hormone than a vitamin. For instance, you make your own Vitamin D in your skin when exposed to ultraviolet light as from the sun. Vitamin D is made from cholesterol just like your sex hormones and stress hormones. There are receptors [...]
One of the simplest and most important things you can do to clean up your diet and improve your health is start making your own salad dressing. When I look at the ingredient lists of most salad dressing, I see a host of problem ingredients: Sugar – often loaded with high fructose corn syrup increasing [...]
