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With Seth Godin as an inspiration, I’m going to do a live session in Santa Barbara on Friday, June 18, 2010. Instead of charging my usual fee for tickets, I’m offering seats only to people who want to be able to train several others. If you’re a coach, a [...]
One of the best ways to help people transform their lives and create their own food revolution is to write my patients’ stories: this is #1 of 7.* Peggy had severe osteoarthritis. Except for the few blocks walk to the market, and the weekly shuttle to a matinee, she [...]
The transformative power of lifestyle changes is the best medicine…and synergistic with meds and devices. But what if you can’t eat the best diet possible, exercise most efficiently, alleviate stress in the model way and be nakedly intimate in your closest relationships? You start [...]
Filled with flavor, anti-inflammatories and in every yellow curry in the book, turmeric is not just for mustard coloring any more. In fact, culinary medicine–the art of cooking blended with the science of medicine– is one of the great bargains of our time. That’s essential in [...]
Americans still have an obsession with fat in food, but like most obsessions, it obscures the food we need to eat and enjoy. Some foods make you feel full and others make you hungrier. And some of it is downright fatty. Most of us think there are really only [...]
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Let's Ditch Added Sugar From Our Regular Diets Whenever my kids down a can of soda, I wince. Maybe you should, too. My reaction comes from research I've been doing on weight gain in America -- especially among children -- and its health effects, most notably as a leading cause of diabetes. [...]
