7 Translated Toxic Ingredients on Food Labels
When you are cruising the grocery store aisles, you probably flip over a few items to scrutinize their nutrition …
View Article5 Health Advantages and 2 Recipes for Pumpkin!
From Shakespeare’s reference to “pumpion” in The Merry Wives of Windsor to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, pumpkin is …
View ArticleIf You Have Heart Disease, Here is How You Should Be Eating: Red Meat?
Heart Healthy Diet Plan Most people with heart disease don’t know how to eat after a heart attack. A well-done …
View ArticleYoga for Your Plate: Mindful Eating: Books and DVDs
Yoga for Your Plate: Mindful Eating The race is on: Cooking, cleaning, hosting, visiting, and tackling a holiday …
View Article5 Questions for Older People to Ask About Their Prescriptions
Everyone deserves the answers to five questions about their prescriptions, especially as they age. And if physicians and families …
View ArticleBerries or Pharma for Erectile Dysfunction: How They Work
In a prospective epidemiological study, men who consumed as few as three portions of flavonoid-rich foods (red and purple …
View ArticleLentils for Valentine’s Day?
What with the blowing of nutritional winds, you could be forgiven for thinking that legumes (lentils included: legumes are …
View ArticleIs Your Health As Egg-Cellent As It Can Be?
Today I had the privilege of speaking to the Pacific Egg and Poultry Association at their 92nd Annual Convention: …
View ArticleCulinary Medicine for Low Vision: The Braille Institute
Culinary medicine for low vision is a real possibility: for the Braille Institute I’m doing a (very) short demo …
View ArticleThe Fab Four: Must Have Items for Every Kitchen
A well-outfitted kitchen is an asset to every home cook. The good news is that “well-outfitted” doesn’t have to mean …
View ArticleHow Cooking Can Change Your Life
“Corporations cook very differently than people do.” So said Michael Pollan, the author and activist, in “How Cooking Can …
View ArticleThe Great and Powerful Garlic
It may not smell like a lily, but Garlic (Allium sativum) is an edible bulb from the lily family. …
View ArticleRecipes for Diabetes, High Cholesterol, Blood Pressure and Mediterranean Diet...
With all the confusion about what to eat, and with how often nutrition experts seem to change their minds, …
View ArticleHow Gardening Heals
Recent years have seen gardens popping up in some of the most unexpected places – retirement homes, hospitals, after-school …
View ArticleThe Mediterranean Diet Recipes by Prescription
I’ve devoted several blogs to the Mediterranean Diet–its affect on cholesterol, on Alzheimer’s prevention, its red wine and palliation …
View ArticleWhat Can You Eat to Beat Dementia or PreDementia?
Food and dementia have a complex relationship. Food of course is a broad term for anything edible, except maybe …
View ArticleThe Pre-Surgery Plan I’d Give My Friends and Family
While surgery is no vacation, you should prepare for it like one. You should do some pre-planning and shopping …
View ArticleCulinary Medicine for Gestational Diabetes
I recently gave a talk to clinicians setting guidelines about the Central Californian unified approach to treatment of gestational …
View ArticleHow to Start Your Own Organic Garden
The foundation for organic gardening is biodiversity. In the wild, a variety of plants and wildlife exist interdependently-providing shelter, …
View ArticleCan You Rev-up Your Metabolism?
It’s not unusual to blame your shrink-resistant waistline on a slow metabolism. But in many cases that’s not what’s keeping you …
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