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Green Rx is a nature-based prescription. It can include 5 (five) parts: A. lower-on-the-food-chain-food (e.g. grown, harvested, minimally processed, cooked locally), B. nature therapy (from forest bathing to surf therapy to therapeutic gardening to time with animals), C. aromatherapy, D. dietary [...]
In my recent webinar “Nutrigenomics and Your Health” for MorganStanley, and whether it is precision nutrition or Soylent or from Soylent Green or something else, about 600 associates phoned in to hear me talk about the subject…and it’s fascinating, promising and yet still in the research [...]
Treat your liver well and it will treat you well in return, keeping liver detox humming in the background and protecting you from liver disease and other poisonings. Read on to learn how to take care of your liver, stop liver disease, and start liver detox. One of our [...]
Produced naturally in the body, glutathione is made of three amino acids − cysteine, glycine, and glutamine. It functions as an antioxidant, helping to rid our bodies of free radicals, the molecules that can damage our body and contribute to chronic illness. In addition to clearing free radicals, [...]
Healthy Grilling, Happy Summer: For those of us in the USA, this weekend marks a turn into warming temps and the start of prime grilling season. Is your grill ready for it? While there are many grill-cleaning solutions on the market, you can get by without them if you’re [...]
It’s this new graph, from the new CDC Early Release of U.S. Obesity Estimates, 2015 men ought to know about: in which men for the age group 40–59, the prevalence of obesity was higher among men than among women (36.3% v 33). There are more gruesome details too.* For [...]
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 from reaching your ideal weight. What is Metabolism? Metabolism is your body’s method of converting calories, from the food you eat, into energy [...]
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 [...]
Only one thing clearly emerged from my review of papers and positions about what to eat before and after you work out. Most people do not need to eat anything to complete most workouts. Weekend athletes, casual runners, sports players who are not elite or endurance athletes, or elderly [...]
Heart Healthy Diet Plan Most people with heart disease don’t know how to eat after a heart attack. A well-done study from UMass followed 555 patients one year after their angiogram after their heart attack. They were overweight (average BMI of 30, about 30 pounds over), averaged 61 years [...]