This food that you may eat daily, ages the body, causes arthritis, spikes blood sugar and increases wrinkling and sagging of skin…
Agave-A Healthy Sweetener or Fat Fuel?
September 20, 2011 by 1 Comment
Is Agave the New “Healthy” Sweetener? Agave syrup has been advertised as a new “healthy” sweetener that is low glycemic, good for weight loss, and better for you than either regular sugar (sucrose) or high fructose corn syrup. And sales of agave syrup have skyrocketed in the last few years. But is it really that [...]
Should We All go ‘Paleo?’
May 13, 2011 by 6 Comments
Have you heard the new diet trend? It’s the ‘Paleo’ diet, primal diet or the caveman diet. I guess it’s not exactly what I would call new and trendy, since it is based on the diet that our ancient ancestors ate. ‘The Paleo Diet’ is actually a term that author Loren Cordain, PhD coined [...]
3 Critical Things You MUST know in Order to Lose Weight and Keep it Off.
March 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment
If you are working on burning body fat and increasing your energy, there are three key things to keep in mind. These things are so important and so many people are trying like crazy and cannot figure out why dieting does not work. Until you ‘get’ this, weight loss and fat burning will be hit [...]
America’s Feedlot?
March 8, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Have you ever stopped to think that America is turning into one big gigantic feedlot–but WE are the cattle? The American public is now living on a diet that consists mostly of corn, wheat, and soy products, very very similar to commercially raised cattle, chickens, and fish. These industrialized big business agricultural products have [...]
Incredible Lipid Panel-YOU Can Do it Too!
March 1, 2011 by 2 Comments
I recently had my blood lipid panel done for a physical. My Physician was absolutely blown away, and the results astounded even me! Here are my numbers: Total Cholesterol 192 mg/DL (physicians recommend total cholesterol below 200, but this number is subject to drug companies push for statins, and the ratio of HDL cholesterol to [...]
What They Didn’t Tell You About Cholesterol
March 1, 2011 by 2 Comments
I talk to so many well-informed, health-conscious people who are concerned about eating a healthy diet, but the one thing that comes up over and over again is this 'cholesterol-phobia' towards cholesterol and saturated fats. And if you pay attention to mainstream media, you are probably convinced that high cholesterol and saturated fat intake will [...]
Avoid These Grains!
January 29, 2011 by 2 Comments
Cave men didn't eat grains; at least nowhere close to the form we eat today. But our country has been steadily increasing its consumption of grain for the past 30 or more years. Along with that are the rising numbers of obese and overweight people. In the 1970’s, the average American ate 85 pounds [...]
The Most Preventable Epidemic
November 23, 2010 by 2 Comments
According to some of the most recent estimates, the number of Americans with diabetes will double in the next 25 years — from the current 23.7 million to 44.1 million in 2034. And of course, annual health costs for treating those patients are expected to soar, nearly tripling from the current $113 billion to some [...]
Best Healthy Sweeteners
November 22, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Our craving for sweets often ruins the most well intentioned lean body plan, and we succumb to chocolates, handfuls of cookies, a slice of cake, a generous scoop of ice cream, or other such decadent fare. The key ingredient in all of these items and essentially most of the sweets available on the market is [...]
