How to Deal with Your Child’s Weight Problem While Maintaining his Self Esteem

Editor's Note:   Today's post is from Nicole Harris. She has some great tips on how to help keep your child from becoming an unhappy, overweight adult. Starting with better habits now will go a long way towards helping your child avoid obesity, diabetes and many other chronic diseases.    Fear that you may have [...]

3 ‘Healthy’ Foods to Stop Eating

  Historically, humans consumed over 80,000 species of edible plants, animals, and fungi, but in our modern dietary world, the average American gets almost 70% of their caloric intake from THREE foods! And those foods have been pushed as 'healthy' but they are actually leading us to multiple chronic diseases like heart disease, cancer, and [...]

Diabetes–A Deadly Epidemic You Can Avoid

On a recent trip to the grocery store, I noticed several magazines devoted entirely to diabetes. An entire magazine devoted to a disease? Why? The number of Americans with diabetes is expected to DOUBLE in the next 25 years — from the current 25.8 million to 48.3 million in 2050. That is 1 in 3 [...]

Sugar Kills

Evidence is piling up against sugar and its role in the skyrocketing rates of obesity, heart disease, diabetes,  and cancer. But somehow we still get the message that sugar is okay, if we eat it in moderation. How much is too much? What’s the harm in sugar? Gary Taubes, author of “Why We Get Fat,” [...]