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Avocados are more than a trendy topping for your toast. They’re delicious, luscious, creamy and just as good– good for you! Not only that, growing avocado trees is good for your health too! Today we’re discussing why you should add avocados to your plate and garden as well as [...]
Depending on who you believe, coconut oil is either a nutritional miracle food or pure poison. Nearly 70% of Americans view coconut oil as a health food—but only about 37% of nutritionists view it that way. Coconut oil is 88% fat, most of which is saturated fat. However, the [...]
There are so many reasons – and so many ways – to love avocado. A culinary superfood, awesome avocados provide up to 20 nutrients including vitamins K, C and E, as well as folate, magnesium, zinc, and potassium. In fact, they actually have more potassium than bananas. I wrote [...]
The race is on: Cooking, cleaning, hosting, visiting, and tackling a holiday shopping list that is growing faster than last summer’s weeds. Before you know it, the table is set and you’re serving the holiday meal. This year, though, is going to be different–you’re going to [...]
When you are cruising the grocery store aisles, you probably flip over a few items to scrutinize their nutrition labels. But do you understand what you’re looking at? The government is working on updating the label to reflect today’s nutritional concerns and include more realistic [...]
Culinary medicine seems to be having a moment in health care, or at least, it’s getting close. It’s been taught as cooking and nutrition electives in medical school since at least early 2003, at SUNY-Upstate, but now, according to reporting at WBEZ-Chicago 30 medical schools are [...]
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I’m excited about giving a talk on culinary medicine in Boston at a Harvard GI conference next week, and I thought I would share some of the tools I’m going to encourage docs to prescribe for their patients…that you can access now! Culinary medicine is all about blending the [...]
Physicians are a sharp lot: that’s often how they qualified for medical school. We take care of ourselves, however, badly. Too many docs are stressed out, overweight, don’t exercise, and sleep little. It’s no coincidence that these are the three areas in which REFUEL offers its [...]
It’s always a special privilege to be featured in one’s home town: Here is a front-page-Life-Section theFeature on my work, and a very nice photo of my book signing at Chaucer’s Bookstore, the next [...]