Get Dr La Puma's Healthy Bites & Weekly Wows in your inbox to help you feel your best inside and out. Insights, healthy recipes and recommended household, culinary, literary, botanical and natural products to make your life easier, healthier and more fun.
Any way you slice them, beets are a versatile part of a healthy, natural diet. Beets contain a variety of vitamins and minerals, including several of the B vitamins, vitamin C zinc, selenium, manganese, phosphorus. Also rich in antioxidants (lutein, betalain, and zeaxanthin), beets support the [...]
Who can resist the juicy, vibrant flavor of a sweet and tangy pineapple? Apparently, not many of us—this prickly plant often ranks as one of America’s most in-demand tropical fruits. But beneath its rough exterior, the pineapple is hiding more than just flavor. There are many health [...]
Healthy Heart Foods When I worked at the great Chicago restaurant Topolobampo, one of the other volunteers in the kitchen loaded up on Peptobismol and Lipitor (a statin now off patent) before our annual trip to a great culinary region in Mexico. “One for the gut and one for [...]
Please Login to view this content. (Not a member? Join [...]
I’ve been looking at my patient records from Chef Clinic over the last 10 years (yes, I’ve kept them all, in all their manila folder glory). Especially interesting are the men. In a weight loss practice, most patients are women. Women have more societal pressure to achieve a healthy [...]
Do Statins Raise Diabetes Risk? Probably, in higher doses. A study of 18000 people without heart disease, called JUPITER, shows that Crestor (rosuvastatin) 20 mg showed that for every 1000 patients on high dose (40mg and up) statins, there are 6 more cases of new diabetes over 2 years. [...]
Recently I’ve seen several patients with terrible looking numbers: 260 LDL cholesterol, 35 HDL cholesterol, 375 triglycerides, 180/85 blood pressures, 222 blood sugars, 9% glycohemoglobin. The standard treatment for such numbers is clear: prescribe the right medicine in the right amount, and [...]
I don’t take care of patients on the web, yet. Most of my patients are, however, e-patients. And I didn’t even know it. E-patients are real, not virtual. They’re networked, curious, want to be well-informed about and take better control of their health, confused about what info is [...]
Please Login to view this content. (Not a member? Join [...]