You don't need a nutritionist to tell you that sugar isn't good for you.
Sugar raises blood sugar, reduces HDL cholesterol, skyrockets triglycerides, triggers abnormal insulin surges, makes us hungry. It also converts the less-harmful large LDL particles to the much more harmful small LDL particles. Sugar also makes you hungry in a cycle... Read more
Debra sat in my office, anxious over what I was going to advise about her cholesterol values.
This 49-year old woman had been told by two doctors that she had no choice but to take a statin drug to reduce her LDL cholesterol of 164 mg/dl.
But I suggested to this peri-menopausal woman that we should first try a number of... Read more
The old way: Doctor diagnoses your condition, tells you what to do, you follow his/her instructions.
Now: Doctor diagnoses your condition, tells you what to do. You tell doctor that you've been doing some reading and there may be other ways to do things. He/she grouses about "who's the doctor here, you or me?" and grudgingly says it's... Read more
The excitement over the health benefits of vitamin D have, not unexpectedly, generated lots and lots of questions about how, why, and when to best use it.
Let's review some of the most frequent questions and answers about vitamin D.
Now, please keep in mind that much of this is my opinion, based on clinical experience replacing vitamin D in over... Read more
For years, vitamin D was the Rodney Dangerfield of the nutrition world: It got no respect.
Vitamin D was viewed as a nutrient necessary in children to prevent rickets, a small quantity necessary to prevent osteopenia (bone-thinning) in adults. Mothers forced foul-tasting cod liver oil on their children. End of story.
But today... Read more
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