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Using food and nature as medicine could serve as effective forms of EcoMedicine against diabetes. EcoMedicine maintains that your personal medical health and the health of your environment are two sides of the same coin. As you use nature to lower your blood pressure, assuage your anxiety, [...]
Air quality is getting worse, and it’s not just the fire, smoke and excessive heat: it’s the cauldron of toxins, VOCs and, bizarrely, the threat of diabetes that loom. The worst? the Las Vegas area had 145 days of pollution and poor air quality in 2016, a little higher [...]
Researchers have revealed that people can gain up to 22 pounds a year due to a prescription medication. If you’ve experienced or are experiencing an unexplained weight gain, i.e., weight gain that has occurred despite little to no change in your eating and exercise habits or without a [...]
Naturally sweet cinnamon revives our senses with its wonderful aroma and can enhance health with its medicinal properties. Cinnamon was first used in China (2700 B.C.) to treat fever, digestive, and menstrual problems. Indian healers used cinnamon to treat gastrointestinal complaints, as well as [...]
If you’ve been diagnosed with Diabetes mellitus (DM), or even pre-diabetes, don’t take it lightly. Follow treatment plans and lifestyle recommendations. Left untreated, diabetes can lead to many complications such as heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, and lower-extremity [...]
I recently gave a talk to clinicians setting guidelines about the Central Californian unified approach to treatment of gestational diabetes, and as always when researching and prescribing culinary medicine, learned a lot about what people should eat and avoid for a particular condition. (To see the [...]
With all the confusion about what to eat, and with how often nutrition experts seem to change their minds, I thought it was time to go back to basic culinary medicine and see if I could find groups of recipes and actual foods for specific chronic conditions. In other [...]
Culinary medicine for low vision is a real possibility: for the Braille Institute I’m doing a (very) short demo and lecture shortly, and here is some of what I learned in preparing. Acute macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the few conditions in which dietary supplements have been shown [...]
It’s often been said that you can’t out-exercise a bad diet, yet a new non-profit called the Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN) hopes to prove otherwise. On the surface, this might not seem noteworthy, but it’s a spark of information that lit the health and wellness world on [...]