Sugar has become so much a part of our diets that we are unaware of all the places that it lurks. Because sugar has so many different names, we don’t really realize how much we consume. Generally, when we think of sugar, we think of the overt sugars – candy, cake, cookies, ice cream, sodas,
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Sometimes we feel like our stress is unrelenting. Like we will be dealing with stress for the rest of our lives. Unfortunately, to a degree that’s true. We will, more than likely, always have stress in our lives. But how we deal with the stress, or how our body deals with the stress is what
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Part I As Americans are broadening around the middle, they are bulking up with the wrong kind of fat. There are several kinds of fats in the body, each with different functions. We are only now recognizing that not all fats are bad, most are very important, however, it’s the bad fats we seem to
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When you’ve tried diets and exercise and in short you feel like you’ve “tried everything” and still can’t lose weight, what went wrong? Why do diets work for some people, and fail for others? Why do some diets harm some people and yet are so beneficial to others? There can be many reasons. First of
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The gallbladder is a simple organ, but not an unimportant one. Too easily stripped away, when the gallbladder isn’t functioning properly, we really need to be asking WHY? Most gallbladder problems start further upstream, in the upper digestive system (mouth and stomach), yet frequently that aspect is ignored, and the gallbladder is simply taken out.
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When you look at the average American, generally overweight, you probably don’t see them as malnourished. When we think of that word we envision someone who is emaciated or anorexic. But the truth is obesity is also a condition of malnutrition. How can someone who is overweight be malnourished? Because what they are eating has
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Frequently we hear the meme “Don’t shoot the messenger!” when the bearer of bad news is blamed or lashed out against. The emotions attached can be hostile or jokingly expressed. But it’s no joking matter when it comes to our body, and to our health. So frequently, when the body tells us something is wrong
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In most cultures in earlier centuries, there was a deliberate focus on the nutritional health of women in pre-conception and conception years. Though the term “nutrition” wasn’t applied until the last century for the most part, it was innately understood that a woman had to prepare to have a baby. It wasn’t a “Whoops! I’m
Moms and Dads frequently come into my office, complaining of many life-disrupting symptoms, most of which involve fatigue. One of their greatest fears is losing their children. Not to death, kidnapping or worse tragedy, but to the lack of their ability to parent because of their health, most often fatigue. As parents, we all want
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For an organ weighing 3-4 pounds and about 6 inches, our liver is amazing! I like to compare it to the heart – the heart is incredibly complex – with 4 chambers, lots of vasculature, chordae, valves and more, yet it does one thing – it pumps blood. The liver, by contrast looks boring. Uniform
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