Eating is a vital part of our lives. You may notice that eating is a very charged topic! We fervently defend what we want to eat. Americans seem to have opportunities to eat all the time! We eat on the run, as a business meeting, or with the whole family. We eat...
If you were trying to lose weight, and you restricted your calories in what you ate throughout the day, sooner or later it would backfire. As every “Biggest Loser” winner has proven, you gain the weight back! This is because those winners have reduced their basal...
Ponce de Leon famously searched for the fountain of youth. Little did he know he was looking for the wrong thing. If we want to restore youth, we must know the effects of aging. Loss of muscle mass, loss of bone density, loss of cognitive function top the list of the...
It's that time! The slide towards the New Year. Holidays with such busy days! Meeting family obligations. The inevitable weight gain? This is the one time of year it pays exponentially to pay attention to what you eat and keep your life's routines. It's not too late!...
That doesn't grab your attention. Or does it? Who cares about what you already know? Attention always goes to the latest exotic superfood or which food is the villain - is it fat or sugar now? Yet, those who are curious wish to have what they know be confirmed....
This was the diet wisdom when I was growing up. If you are fat, then eat less and exercise more. I know it intimately. I remember a time when I was in about fourth grade. I learned to count calories with a little booklet my Mom had. I made sure I rode my bike more...
Ketogenic diets, raspberry ketones, and all things fat-burning are all the rage. What is the truth about your metabolism and ketones? When I was in Naturopathic Medical School, the Atkins diet was making a come-back. Originally developed in the 1960's by the...
Why is my diet and exercise program not working? When we see the stunning results from the before-and-after pictures, we want that for ourselves. We want the dramatic shrinking in girth from the new diet. We want the toned arms and rippled abs from the exercise...
How do we know what to eat? We come into this life hard-wired to seek calories in food for energy. And we naturally crave the substances that we need more of in our bodies. When we are deficient in water, we become thirsty. When we are deficient in salt, we crave...
Move from Stressed to Thriving with the Adrenal Reset Diet from Dr. Alan Christianson Weight gain is often due to our modern lifestyle which disrupts the adrenal rhythm to put us in survival mode. Food is not our enemy, it is our solution. Our food choices can act as...
