While it may seem hard work to plan a healthy diet, daily exercise, sound sleep and stress management techniques like meditation, how hard is it to sweat it out in…
The joy of being a medical practitioner honoring traditional scientific methods and pharma as well as natural and integrative research is that there is always something new to consider and…
Many people do not want to take a prescription cholesterol medication like a statin but wonder how effective a plant diet can be for lowering serum LDL cholesterol levels. My…
Can we all agree on a few core nutrition concepts? The chronic diseases that are decimating health in Western societies are due, in part, to a shift to diets high…
There are some unusual and dangerous antics going on with diet on the blogosphere including extreme interest in animal based ketogenic diets that are ultra-low in carbohydrates. There is a…
Appropriately buried below news headlines this week, some horrific, some hopeful, were a couple of studies worthy of focus for their scientific support for a plant diet for 2 very…
It is clear as day that the acceptance of a diet partly or completely based in plant foods, often characterized as a vegan diet, is catching on at breakneck speed….
What have we learned since 1955 about heart care? What can we do different in 2018 by studying the miraculous survival of Bob Harper and John Warner, MD? Read on…
We all know intuitively that not all 60 year olds, picking a number I am fast approaching, look the same age. Some have a strikingly youthful appearance and others appear…
How young is too young to start focusing on heart attack risk? And how good are we at calculating risk in younger individuals to predict their risk of a heart…