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December 07, 2015 Carrageenen: Innocent Poison   Published Dec 6, 2015   Reference: Fed. Proc, Plos One, Plos One   Ever looked on the ingredients on a granola bar that you had in your purse for a snack?   See the ingredient “carrageenan”. Ever wonder what it was? Ever bought coconut milk because you thought it was a better source of milk… Continue reading Carrageenan: Innocent or Poison?

November 30, 2015 Why is My Diet Not Working – aka – Why Can’t I Lose Weight   Reference: Zeevi Cell Nov 2015   Eating like a bird and still not losing weight?   Hmm. Your dietician, your doctor, your family all say, “Must be cheating and is just in denial!”. You might even be tempted to say that… Continue reading Why is My Diet Not Working – aka – Why can’t I Lose Weight

November 23, 2015 What Carbs Should I Eat?   Reference: Low Glycemic Food Table, Cox Diabetes Clin Research, J. Geriatrics Oct 2015, Paleo Diet Glycemic Index,   We humans are a unique bunch. We developed big, energy-hungry brains in the last 2 million years. To keep that development moving along, we had to adapt to diets with more calories in… Continue reading What Carbs Should I Eat?

November 16, 2015 Beta Glucan: Immune Booster    Reference: Nutrition Journal 2014   Published:  Nov 16, 2015   Ever heard of the immune boosting effect of mushrooms? Of course. Shiitake mushrooms from Japan or Lengzhi from China have been used in Asia for millennia to boost immune function. They exist in the cell walls of yeast, fungi, and some… Continue reading Beta-Glucans and Immune Function

November 09, 2015 The Insulin Index: The Best Way to Manage Diabetes and Weight Loss  Published: Nov 9th 2015   Reference:   AJCN Miller, AJCN Holt and Miller,   Diabetes Blog,   What’s the Insulin Index? It’s the measure of how much your insulin goes up in response to a standard dose of any given food when compared to a standard dose of… Continue reading Insulin Index is the Way to Understand Weight Loss and Diabetes Control

November 02, 2015 Meat Gives You Cancer?   Reference   CBCNews, Cancer.gov, IARC Report on Meat and Cancer   Nov 2, 2015   Does red meat give you cancer? It was all over the news this last week. The UN agency for health within WHO issued a report this week linking meat consumption to the risk of cancer. In particular, its data suggests that processed… Continue reading Does Meat Cause Cancer?

October 26, 2015 High Cholesterol is GOOD for Women – the HUNT Study   Published Oct 26th, 2015   Reference: Petursson, Jr Eval Clin Pract. AHA Cholesterol Guidelines   Have you been badgered lately by a health provider who has insisted that you be on a statin? They show you your “numbers” and your cholesterol is high.   You blanche. You’ve… Continue reading High Cholesterol is Good for You

October 19, 2015 Butyrate: Your Colon, Your Microbiome and You   Reference:   Canha 2015, Wikipedia, Whole Health Source, Diabetes 2009, 10% Human  Oct 19, 2015   Let’s accept the fact that you are not an individual, but an organism that houses a whole microbiome of bacteria in your colon, which has 10 times the number of cells and 100 times the amount of DNA… Continue reading Butyrate and Your Gut

October 12, 2015 Heart Calcium Scoring and Statin Use   Reference: New York Times, Journal of the American College of Cardiology  Oct 2015   The use of statins for the reduction of risk in coronary artery disease is controversial, in part because of the appearance of commercial conflict of interest.   It is BIG business in BIG medicine. And lots of… Continue reading Calcium Heart CT Scoring Can Improve your Statin Decision Making

October 05, 2015 Using Worms to Fix Illness   Reference:   Healing the Biome, Anna Cheng, Journal of Evolutionary Medicine   Oct 5th, 2015   Are you ready for some really far-out ideas? I mean, stretch the envelope a little? Ok. Here goes. For most of human history, we have lived with a whole host of critters on and in us.… Continue reading Using Worms to Fix Illness