Excellent Documentary
Please view this documentary. It is an excellent example of finding out where your food supply comes from and demanding it be better. Deconstructing Food
Food is not Medicine
Or is it? The article does not address the benefits of whole foods. However, it is good to see this subject matter becoming more mainstream. Don’t be misled by these food label tricks.
CoQ What?
What is it, why the weird name and why do we need it? First CoQ10 really means Coenzyme Q 10 and has other names like ubiquinone and ubidecarenone, these names refer to the substance’s ubiquitous appearance throughout the body. Coenzymes are a subgroup of what are generally known as cofactors. Cofactors are chemical compounds that […]
Dementia – I don’t understand…
The surge of dementia information in the news recently should come as little surprise, with the aging population and increased scrutiny the health of our seniors is placed under. Yes we know more people are developing brain dysfunctions like dementia and we still do not have much to do to effectively treat it, so prevention […]
C’mon, fill your lungs with free radicals.
We have all been bombarded with advertisements and media reports about antioxidants in various forms being heralded as everything from the fountain of youth to protection from our own bad habits. Along with the news on antioxidants comes the message that free radicals (what antioxidants neutralize) are evil and we should do everything we can […]
Squalene in the Vaccine for you and your children.
So a vaccine is being developed for the swine fly (H1N1). Many people are convinced that the H1N1 virus is a pandemic virus that is more aggressive than flu virus’ in the past. It is true that it seems that a high percentage of folks that come in contact with the virus develop symptoms. However, […]
The Fuel in Meat and Potatoes
This is a very interesting article that can be found in the very informative Mother Nature Network blog. http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/health/blogs/the-fuel-in-meat-and-potatoes
A Kwik Note About Vitamin K
Vitamin K is known to most of us as something that helps clot our blood. Its most useful and wonderful benefits are certainly not well known to the general public. Certain forms of Vitamin K have proven to be able to build bone and clean the plaque out of arteries. Sounds great, right? So,where […]
Bug Off
It is summer time and that means most of us will venture outside more often. We play more sports, we garden and we simply enjoy outside cooking and eating during this time of the year. That puts us in contact with pests and in particular the dreaded mosquito. I know the first thing to pop […]
Fructose and Semantics – Natural (processed) Born (man-made) Killer (killer)
A current media blitz would have you believe that fructose, specifically high fructose corn syrup (HFCS for short) is not only “healthy in moderation” just like any caloric sweetener but is also chemically the same as table sugar to your body. Both statements are flat out wrong and misleading. Sort of like a publicists spin […]
It’s not candy. It’s candida.
Yeast Reduction Diet: An all too common and frustrating health issue these days is Candida or yeast overgrowth in our bodies. It’s a fungus that steals our nutrients and therefore our energy then leaves us with toxic, even carcinogenic waste material to deal with. Our immune systems have a very hard time dealing with this […]
Glycemic Diet… yes, it really can matter.
The glycemic index is a measure of the effect a carbohydrate has on a person’s blood glucose level in a two hour period. The glycemic index score of a particular food is a number the amount of rise in blood glucose divided by the standard (glucose) and multiplied by 100. That gives us the number […]