Your Average Blood Sugar: Why It Really Matters
If there was a blood test that could give you valuable information about a major, yet reversible risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease and age related dementia, would you want to take it? What if that …
Does Fish Oil Cause Prostate Cancer?
Articles and news reports have been popping up in the last few weeks suggesting that fish oil, one of the most trusted and respected nutritional supplements, may actually cause or contribute to …
Friends In The Belly: how probiotics support health
I think it was Walt Whitman who said “I am large, I contain multitudes”. I’m pretty sure he wasn’t talking about probiotics, the beneficial bacteria that line our digestive tract, but he could have …
Food Cravings: why we have them, what to do about them!
It starts innocently enough. You’re heading in to the grocery store to pick up a few healthy items when suddenly you find yourself standing in front of the bakery case examining an assortment of …
Farmers Markets: Good for Health and Happiness
Ok, this is probably a stupid question: why do we seek to improve our health? (And why the heck am I starting a blog post about farmers markets with this stupid question? . . . yeah I know – just bear …