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Food is often the best medicine, and the right food can make all the difference in your health, energy and vitality. Women have always known this about food and health: it’s part of their upbringing, worldwide, to learn about food, diet, recipes, gardening, cooking, and nutrition. Men, [...]
In nutrition, there are three concerns to address: information, money/resources, and time. Information, though not easy, is usually the least difficult problem to solve. People want to know which foods lower cholesterol or blood sugar; which nutrients interact with their medications; whether olive [...]
Articles on Nutrition I believe there is a national movement to help you get stronger, leaner and healthier with what you eat. Knowing what’s in your food, and how it can help you get well or make you sick are the most important steps you can take to transform [...]
I participated in a diabetes twitter chat with Dr Sanjay Gupta and Everyday Health earlier this week, and the phrase that seemed to strike a RT chord was “Education Before Prescription.” Since I spend much of my time teaching *patients and families how to make the best personal [...]
I’ve just finished two wonderful books, one of which is well-known and the other deserves to be: Cooked, and Eating on the Wild Side. I had assumed that Michael Pollan’s new book Cooked would be well told but precious: a Berkeley academic, albeit a food interested one, learning how [...]
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Atkins was all the rage in the late 1970s; Ornish in the late 1980s; Atkins again in the late 1990s; and now there is free-for-all, with Paleo, Raw, Vegan and Gluten Free all vying for media time, most-favored-diet-status and celebrity spokespersons. Diets come and go in waves. I love analyzing [...]
Hunger in America is largely hidden, yet Feeding America’s 200+ foodbanks feed one out of 6 Americans. The USDA reports that in 2011, 46.7 million Americans—or roughly one of four adults — received food assistance from one of 15 federal programs. Here is the meal map. This is amazing [...]
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