If you've already begun your day with a wheat- and cornstarch-free breakfast, you have likely already begun to lose weight, feel more alert, more energetic, and improve pre-diabetic and diabetic patterns.
How about compounding the benefits begun at breakfast and continuing into lunch and dinner? The benefits will then be even greater... Read more
When trying to lose weight or correct many of the adverse consequences of years of heavy carbohydrate eating, breakfast seems to be the toughest meal of the day for many people. I think it's because the quest for sweet has dominated the American breakfast for so long, with its half-century legacy of cartoon character breakfast cereals; baked... Read more
TV ads, media conversations, magazine articles, even advice from the American Heart Association and USDA (a la Food Pyramid) all agree: eat more whole grains, get more fiber.
What happens when you follow the advice to add more and more whole grains to your diet?
Look around you: Appetite expands, people gain weight and balloon... Read more
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
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