When I was in medical school we studied and practiced nutritional medicine in our student clinic. Dietary and lifestyle changes were at the core of what we taught to our patients. I don’t ever remember recommending a grain-free diet, except in cases where we prescribed a ketogenic diet as a medical diet for managing epilepsy (reports of the effectiveness of …
This phytonutrient loaded recipe is my favorite way to prepare brussels sprouts. Even my husband, who doesn’t love brussels, really enjoys these. The combination of the savory garlic and the bittersweet molasses complements the brussels perfectly. It’s also much quicker than roasting in the oven, getting them to your table faster. Ingredients: 1 pound brussels sprouts 3 cloves garlic, crushed …
We’ve all been there. Something annoys you, angers you or sends you into a rage. Time passes and so does the emotion but for some of us the repetitive thoughts don’t turn off. “I should’ve done it another way”, running through the scene over and over in your mind. Carrying around worry, guilt, jealousy and hatred will make you sick. …
HOW TO UNCOVER SECRET INFO IN FOOD LABELS & WHAT THEY ARE KEEPING FROM YOU How many of you have hopped on the band wagon of carb counting? As a practicing physician with a background in nutritional biochemistry, I can tell you that carb counting is not all it’s cracked up to be. In general, food labeling laws don’t provide …
Here’s my confession—I eat sugar regularly. I don’t binge, I have never had a problem with weight. I am not obsessed with calories or being on a diet. I don’t follow a ‘strict diet’. I eat sensibly and consume a traditional, whole foods diet. In my clinical practice, I see so many patients addicted to sugar and dealing with weight …
In the era of evolving technology in business, it is certainly time that medical science endured a radical medical technology overhaul. Well, that appears to be happening right now. In President Obama’s 2015 State of the Union Address, he announced the Precision Medicine Initiative to highlight support of research and clinical application of the intersection between lifestyle, environment and genetics. …
A SNP (pronounced “snip”) is a single nucleotide polymorphism to be exact. Ok, that doesn’t help at all, right? A basic overview on genetics is necessary to really understand SNPs. For simplicity, these are the key pieces: Your genetic code is built with DNA. The smallest building blocks of DNA are called nucleotides. A nucleotide contains a base attached to …
