For older adults, regular physical activity is one of the most powerful tools available for protecting cardiovascular health, and the benefits go far beyond simply lowering your risk of heart disease. Exercise strengthens the heart muscle itself, helps keep...
Walk down any grocery store health aisle and you'll find almonds and walnuts front and center. They're the ones with the health claims on the packaging, the dedicated recipe blogs, and the decades of good press. Pecans, meanwhile, have...
Somewhere between the low-fat era, the low-carb era, and whatever came after that, a lot of people quietly gave up on dieting, not out of laziness, but out of experience. They'd tried enough approaches to know that none of...
Fat. We see it everywhere. It’s a yellowish tissue that has somehow been transformed from a necessary component of our bodies, to something on par with “The Body Snatchers.” This seemingly benign substance has slowly embedded itself within our...
Inflammation in your body can be a good thing and it can be a bad thing, it just depends on why it’s there. When you cut your finger, your body stimulates an acute inflammatory response to protect the wound...
As we age, it’s easy to assume that feeling more tired or achy is “just part of getting older.” But sometimes, those changes aren’t simply aging — they may be your body asking for something it’s missing.
One of the...
Whenever I work with new clients who are interested in losing weight, I ask what they are drinking. Yes, I’m concerned with nutrition and exercise, but sometimes we conveniently forget the impact our beverages have on our hormones, weight...
The recent revelation of Arsenic in Apple Juice has parents concerned and frustrated. Concerned because children are the single biggest consumers of juice; Frustrated because they think juice is 100% healthy.
Juice is not a health food! Kids should not be drinking...
In a February 2012 report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), it was found that heart attacks with atypical symptoms are on the rise, especially among women. While many people think that chest pain is...
About 20 years ago, when I first started in Private Practice, I had a young man come to me who was so amazingly intelligent, bright, and alive with life. Although he was an incredible pleasure to work with, he...
