What is Fatty Liver and How Can Chinese Medicine Help?
Fatty liver is now recognized as the most common cause of abnormal liver function tests in the western world. Around one in five persons in the USA has a fatty liver and it is poised to be as big a...
View ArticleWhat is the Glycemic Index?
What is the Glycemic Index? Not all carbohydrates are created equal and those with a high glycemic load will send your blood sugar spiking. [...]
View ArticleBreastfeeding May Be Beneficial To Mothers, Not Only To Babies
(Schwarz, Eleanor et al. University of Pittsburgh. Quoted by the New York Times April 22, 2009) A study from the University of Pittsburgh looked at the health history of 139,681 women and concluded...
View ArticleOur Symbionts, Ourselves
Only 10% of the cells in our bodies are human. Ponder that. We have easily a hundred trillion bacterial cells, not just in our gut but all over our body. They make us work: breaking down food into...
View ArticleTen Things About Being Fat
Ten things you should know about being fat: while eating right and exercising are vital, most diets don't work, infectobesity and gut bacteria all affect weight, [...]
View ArticleFructose, Sugar, Poison and Obesity
The video by Robert Lustig of UCSF is extremely interesting, but wonky. If you work in health care or are dealing with blood sugar issues, I highly recommend listening. I do anyway. But here are the...
View ArticleTime Article Misses the Point of Exercise in Weight Loss
The point of exercise is to metabolically intervene so that fructose is not converted into VLDL, fat and uric acid. And to get that benefit you need to eat BEFORE exercise, not after which will raise...
View ArticleDiets Cause More Harm Than Good
Dieting is a risk factor for weight gain. The vast majorioty of people regain all weight plus more. Diets do not lead to sustained weight loss or health benefits for the majority of people. [...]
View ArticlePrimates Prefer Cooked Meat and What It Means to Us
Cooked food is preferred by primates because food needs less energy to digest. While better at extracting nutrients, raw food may be useful in the obesity epidemic. [...]
View ArticleChemicals and Obesity: What if if isn’t all your fault?
As someone who was around in the ’50s and ’60s when there was less obesity, I have to tell you that diets were not that good. TV dinners, Wonder bread, instant mashed potatoes, fish-sticks and whole...
View ArticleObesity and Swine Flu: A Chinese Medicine Perspective
A recent report report from the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy indicates that 25% of hospitalized H1N1 victims in a California study were morbidly obese versus 4% of the US...
View ArticleH. Pylori Can Keep You Thin
This month’s Scientific American has an article on a subject close to my heart, “Your Inner Ecosystem.” Only 10% of the DNA in our bodies is human. In other articles I have advanced the idea that we...
View Article