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Why Your New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Stick
How many reasons do you have for loving or hating this time of year? For me, the holiday season is a time to be present with myself and my loved ones. I take pleasure in slowing down for a brief...
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Are You Fat Enough?
It’s time to change the way you think about fat. For the past 30 years well-meaning diet gurus have preached that eating fat makes you fat. I’m here to tell you that fat, in and of itself, is not what...
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Savvy Supplement Shopping
It may seem like a paradox but obesity and malnutrition often go hand in hand. Processed, high-sugar, high-calorie foods contain almost no nutrients yet require even more vitamins and minerals to...
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Enjoy Healthy Dining – Surviving Restaurants
Eating outside the home comes at a high price. We spend our hard-earned dollars upfront only to pay more at a later date due to hidden healthcare costs not seen on the menu! Temptations from the food...
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How Diet Soda Makes You Fat (and Other Food and Diet Industry Secrets)
How do you lose weight? Substitute diet drinks for sugary drinks. Eat low fat foods. Just eat less of the bad foods – it’s all about the calories. We are told, “Just have more willpower”. These...
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Why Cooking Can Save Your Life
The cure for what ails us—both in our bodies and in our nation—can be found in the kitchen. It is a place to rebuild community and connection, strengthen bonds with family and friends, teach...
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Occupy Wellness and Eat-In: The Power of the Fork – Part One
We each own a secret weapon that weighs only a few ounces. If this was strategically deployed for one day, we could transform our world into a better place. We could end obesity and chronic disease,...
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Occupy Wellness and Eat-In: The Power of the Fork – Part Two
In my last blog, I explored how your diet affects not only your personal health but the health of the soil, water, air, and global climate. What we choose to eat determines whether or not we deplete...
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The Healing Powers of Burgers and Fried Chicken
Can burgers and fried chicken really be good for you? Yes. But not the Five Guys killer burger—not that kind. It’s burgers and chicken you cook yourself. And why do you need to cook them yourself?...
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Do We Need a Health Revolution?
It might be hard to imagine but being healthy in today’s world is a revolutionary act. In so many ways, our health has been taken from us. That’s why I am so passionate about getting people to stand...
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FED UP: Why We Must Cook Our Way to Health
Last week, I flew to Greenville, South Carolina to meet with the Kluge family. I talked with them about their health, looking to understand the roots of their family crisis of morbid obesity,...
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We’re Not Going To Take It Anymore
Watch me on the Katie Couric show on Monday, April 22 as I discuss Food and Lifestyle Prescriptions for Common Health Problems. For common health problems, there are often simple diet and lifestyle...
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The Most Important Thing I Learned From My Mother
It’s Mother’s Day, a time to celebrate the person who brought us in to this world, who taught us the basic lessons of life and planted the seeds for who we become. Today, I want to celebrate my mother...
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The One Diet That Can Cure Most Disease: Part I
If I told you there was one diet that could cure arthritis, fatigue, irritable bowel, reflux, chronic allergies, eczema, psoriasis, autoimmune disease, diabetes, heart disease, migraines, depression,...
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The One Diet That Can Cure Most Disease: Part II
What if you could cure all your health problems and lose 10 pounds in just 7 days? That’s an amazing claim, hard to believe for sure, but I have seen this miracle so many times in my practice (and now...
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How Diet Soda Makes You Fat (and Other Food and Diet Industry Secrets)
How do you lose weight? Substitute diet drinks for sugary drinks. Eat low fat foods. Just eat less of the bad foods – it’s all about the calories. We are told, “Just have more willpower”. These...
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10 Dramatic Shifts that Occur When You Detox!
If you’re one of the millions of Americans suffering from obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, or even just plain feeling crummy as a result of the Standard American Diet (SAD), you’ll want to...
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The cure for what ails us—both in our bodies and in our nation—can be found in the kitchen. It is a place to rebuild community and connection, strengthen bonds with family and friends, teach...
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Occupy Wellness and Eat-In: The Power of the Fork – Part One
We each own a secret weapon that weighs only a few ounces. If this was strategically deployed for one day, we could transform our world into a better place. We could end obesity and chronic disease,...
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Occupy Wellness and Eat-In: The Power of the Fork – Part Two
In my last blog, I explored how your diet affects not only your personal health but the health of the soil, water, air, and global climate. What we choose to eat determines whether or not we deplete...
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