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 …
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 …
The Demon Cholesterol: How Dangerous Is It Really?
Americans are afraid of cholesterol. This is no surprise. For years we’ve been told, in essence, that cholesterol is a silent killer, building up in our arteries and causing coronary artery disease, …