Terrifying Trend In light of a recent influx of messages about numerous friends and relatives who have been afflicted with various forms of heart disease, including atherosclerosis, I began to wonder what research says about the ability to reverse this common killer. What I discovered makes sense and also supports everything that we teach…
Bariatric Weight-Loss for Children
Bariatric weight-loss surgery for children?!? As I was sitting this morning and enjoying a cup of coffee while watching the news, a sad story they were reporting on really caught my attention. The topic of this news story was how bariatric weight-loss surgeries for adolescents has been on the increase over the last few…
Jenny Craig is Dead
Would it be wrong that the death of Jenny Craig makes me happy, happy, happy? No, I am not ecstatic about Jenny Craig, the individual, dying. I am happy to see the business with her name on it shuttering it’s doors for good. Before anyone thinks that I am happy that people are losing their…
Baseline Bone Health
Do you know how well your baseline bone health is from your last physical examination? If so, have you done anything to improve your bone health? You may be wondering where I am going with this, keep on reading and you will soon find out. Your baseline health numbers are an initial measurement of a…
Inflammation in The Body
The word “inflammation” might conjure up images of a swollen ankle after some missteps on a long hike. But inflammation has also emerged as a key factor in serious diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, obesity, diabetes, and a variety of infectious diseases including HIV/AIDS. So, What Exactly, is Inflammation? When scientists and researchers discuss inflammation,…
Small Steps to Weight Loss
First Things First A common strategy to attempt to lose weight is to skip breakfast. The thinking here is that delaying eating as long as possible will result in an overall calorie deficit. Nothing could be farther from the truth for most people. When we skip breakfast, we feel entitled to eat whatever we find…
Random Musings about Weight Loss
I have been missing in action from writing for the last month or so. During this time, I have been suffering from neuropathy from my low back down both legs to my feet. A little over a week ago I had a trial Spinal Cord Stimulator Implant inserted into my spine and I am glad…
Beware! Fake Sugar Warning
It may just be the algorithm from my online activity, but my news feeds have been getting blown up over the dangers of fake sugar. Ever since the journal Nature Medicine published the results of a study on erythritol, it seems that most all media outlets have at least one if not multiple stories based…
Be Inspired!
Lead By Example! Although this picture is not Johanna Quaas, the idea represented by this photo is the same. Ms. Quaas is 97 years old and continues to compete in the amateur gymnastics competition, Landis Senior in Saxony, Germany. In 2012, at 86, she was recognized by Guiness World Records as the oldest active competitive…
Deceived by the Numbers
If you have had a physical examination from your doctor which included blood labs, have you ever considered that the lab numbers might have deceived you into thinking that your health is good? In fact, we can all be easily deceived by numbers when we do not understand just what they are telling us. Not…