Nutrition

What to Eat to Enhance Athletic Performance

What to Eat to Enhance Athletic Performance

It’s hard to read sports news anymore without hearing about someone getting caught for illegal use of performance enhancing drugs. Even though most of us are not competing with such high stakes, virtually everyone is looking to enhance their athletic performance and...

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Sugar Kills

Sugar Kills

Evidence is piling up against sugar and its role in the skyrocketing rates of obesity, heart disease, diabetes,  and cancer. But somehow we still get the message that sugar is okay, if we eat it in moderation. How much is too much? What’s the harm in sugar? Gary...

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The Fountain of Youth Is Right Under Your Nose

The Fountain of Youth Is Right Under Your Nose

Our DNA is coded with a life span. At the ends of each chromosome lies something called a ‘telomere’. What exactly is a Telomere, and why should I care? Telomeres protect chromosomes and prevent them from fusing into rings or binding with other DNA. I like to think of...

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Natural Fixes for Seasonal Allergies

Natural Fixes for Seasonal Allergies

Ahh yes, it’s ragweed and hay fever season again. Every year, it hits me a ton of bricks. I wake up one morning and find I’m in a sleepy fog, my energy is gone, and my head is full, my eyes are irritated and itchy, and I’m sneezing and wheezing. This spring and early...

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Fighting Cancer with Diet

Fighting Cancer with Diet

The word “Cancer” is one of the scariest words in our language, and while it may seem like that word often carries a death sentence with it, many people have overcome some of the deadliest cancers by making drastic diet and lifestyle changes. How you live and what you...

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Why I LOVE Butter

Why I LOVE Butter

We’ve had it drilled into our heads that saturated fat will cause heart disease and kill us. Well the truth is, that we’ve been mislead. Another new study shows saturated fats in the diet are NOT linked to cardiovascular disease. Well why hasn’t this made it to to...

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What is the Best Cooking Oil?

What is the Best Cooking Oil?

Cooking Oils seem to be an ever changing debate. We had it drilled into our heads that we should all avoid lard, butter and saturated fats. But are vegetable oils any better? New research says that vegetable oils may actually be contributing to the diseases they were...

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How to Survive Cancer

How to Survive Cancer

Getting a diagnosis of cancer can certainly cause one to totally re-evaluate lifestyle choices and diet. While diet and lifestyle have a direct effect on whether someone will eventually get cancer, what about diet and lifestyle changes after a cancer diagnosis? Is it...

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The Long Lost Family Dinner

The Long Lost Family Dinner

As a kid, I almost always had to make it home for our family dinner. This time was sacred family time for us. It was important to be at dinner on time, cleaned up and ready to eat.This was our family dinner, where we all came together, and it was a mostly daily...

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What about Coffee?

What about Coffee?

Caffeine was once thought to be bad for us. But as we can see with the prevalence of coffee shops on virtually every corner, coffee is everywhere. And tea is gaining in popularity too. According to recent coffee statistics, coffee is the most popular beverage...

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Agave-Healthy Sweetener or Fat Fuel?

Agave-Healthy Sweetener or Fat Fuel?

Is Agave the New “Healthy” Sweetener? Agave syrup has been advertised as a new “healthy” sweetener that is low glycemic, good for weight loss, and better for you than either regular sugar (sucrose) or high fructose corn syrup. And sales of agave syrup have skyrocketed...

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Do Not Be Afraid of These Saturated Fats

Saturated fats can actually keep you lean and healthy. I am a strong believer of including a variety of healthy oils and fats into your diet. I know some people are still really afraid of fat, especially saturated fat, but trust me, healthy fats can truly be good for...

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