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Good diet foods for high blood pressure include blueberries, flax meal, hibiscus or jamaica tea, and beet juice. But high blood pressure management starts with measuring it accurately: I recommend the Omron Series 7 for home. These foods all have very good peer-reviewed medical research that shows [...]
I gave a talk at UCSB’s Food Summit recently UCSB coverage here, which is part of the important University of California Global Food Initiative. You can look at a condensed slideshare of the talk here, or check it out below. My idea: food can save the life of medicine, [...]
Clinical research in culinary medicine: by my count there are thousands of peer-reviewed articles, though a search of PubMed doesn’t yet find the keyword phrase. Up until late 2007 I catalogued them for 40 different conditions and 50 foods in ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine; [...]
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 [...]
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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I am giving a talk in Las Vegas this Fall at the Medical Fusion Conference, and the organizers asked me to write a preview on how to write a New York Times best-seller. There are about 170,000 books published annually. For about 20 years, there have been three ways [...]
One of the best ways to help people transform their lives and create their own food revolution is to write my patients’ stories: this is #7 of 7.* Carol has diabetes. She is 48 years old, the mother of two and a successful Washington litigator. She does not know [...]