Diet blogs and tips for optimal health and longevity
By Heather Callaghan Great April Fools’ Day prank idea: Switch up your loved ones’ sugar with salt. When they spit out their coffee and comment on the saltiness you can insist that it’s really sugar and that there’s nothing wrong, giving the prank a twisted…
by Sayer Ji With the prevalence of type 2 diabetes expanding rapidly on a global scale, and an estimated 366 million expected to be diagnosed with the condition by 2030, ginger’s potential to alleviate suffering is truly amazing. It is safe, affordable, accessible and, according…
Eating a vegetarian diet appears to be associated with lower blood pressure (BP), and the diets can also be used to reduce blood pressure. Factors such as diet, body weight, physical activity and alcohol intake play a role in the risk of developing hypertension. Dietary…
Dieters more likely to give in to alcoholic temptations than to sugary snacks There’s more to dieting than just sheer willpower and self-control. The presence of friends, late night cravings or the temptation of alcohol can often simply be too strong to resist. Research led…
by Daisy Luther According to some experts, wheat is more like the staff of death than the staff of life these days. Due to genetic modifications of wheat over the past century (go HERE to learn how scientists “fixed” wheat during the ’60s), the grain…
by K.J. McLaughlin Diabetes is a chronic disease which is sweeping our globe in epidemic proportions. In the U.S., there are millions of new cases being diagnosed every single year. In my opinion, the only method we have at our disposal is to try and…
by Heather Callaghan The Sugarcrashers have crashed Facebook and YouTube by uploading an interesting video from the time of their recording: 1998. After years of blaming fat for heart disease, sugar is increasingly coming to light as a heart killer. It used to be that…
by Sayer Ji Found everywhere as an additive in your food, new research has uncovered that this “flavor enhancer” is extremely toxic, causing a battery of adverse health effects within normal dietary ranges. A new study published in the Journal of Headache Pain reveals that…
by Dr. K.J. McLaughlin Yes, it is well into the New Year and your degree of self-control is probably being tested. How are you doing? Do you have conscious control over your natural impulse to eat the certain foods which lead to weight gain? Can…
by Sayer Ji Between the hard and fast dichotomies of cooked and raw, dead and alive, is this beautiful thing called fermented. A place where many of the digestive challenges associated with raw foods (e.g. enzyme inhibitors, anti-nutrients, lectins) are overcome in favor of not…
by Dr. Richard Foxx People love soda. On average, Americans drink about 1.5 cans per day. It doesn’t matter if you’re on a diet or not, one of the most popular ways to satisfy a sweet tooth is with a cold, refreshing soda. Diet colas…
By April McCarthy The French diet is full of flavor and high in satisfaction. They don’t believe in low-fat, low-carb, low-taste, or low-calorie, but they do believe in enjoying their food, taking the time to eat at the table, knowing when to stop eating and…
by Sayer Ji As far back as 1954, reports of the full or partial resolution of schizophrenia following a gluten-free diet began to surface in the medical literature. We covered this remarkable pattern of associations in a previous article titled, “60 Years of Research Links…
By Natasha Longo Soy has become a major source of toxicity for human beings, especially in the last three decades. Not only is more than 99% of soy genetically modified, but sources labeled organic or non-GMO are often exposed to the same problems as conventional…
By James Maskell Of all the areas of research in medicine and wellness at the moment, the most fascinating is on the germs that live on us and inside us all. We have all heard of ‘good bacteria‘ and ‘bad bacteria’ but the new research…
by Catherine J. Frompovich One of the more scientifically-researched health information sites on the Internet is one this researcher/writer subscribes to NutritionFacts.org, produced by Dr. Michael Greger, MD. Their focus is on plant-based diets and the role such diets play in relieving and/or treating disease,…
by Sayer Ji A new study published in the open access journal Nutrients titled, “The Prevalence of Antibodies against Wheat and Milk Proteins in Blood Donors and Their Contribution to Neuroimmune Reactivities,” implicates two of the Western world’s most popular foods in various forms of…
by Catherine J. Frompovich Ever since I matriculated in natural nutrition, not the pap that was being disseminated about food by MDs and RDs in the 1970s and ’80s, e.g., margarine, a trans fat prevented and ‘treated’ heart disease, I acquired tremendous respect for dietary…
by Arjun Walia Jim Morris was a competitive bodybuilder for 30 years, and became vegan within the past twelve. At 50 he was a vegetarian, and at 65 he was a vegan. Our understanding of human health continues to evolve and change over time, just…
By Heather Callaghan With autism rates exploding in recent years and little to no effective mainstream treatments, families have turned to alternative treatments. So it was only a matter of time before researchers caught on to study them. There are no FDA-approved treatments for the…
