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Is Your Diet "Rich" Enough to get Gout?
Gout - the "Disease of Kings" - The incidence of gout has risen considerably in the last 40 years, affecting millions of men and women in the U.S. Gout is a type of painful inflammatory arthritis which is often referred to as the "disease of kings"...
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Plant-Based Nutrition for Kids
Adopting a plant-based diet for your family can be one of the best decisions that you can make for your child's health and wellbeing. The time and effort you invest in educating, planning and providing nutritious foods for your children will help...
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Today's Children Not Expected to Outlive Their Parents
Losing a child is every parent's worst fear. No one would argue that nurturing and protecting our children to the best of our ability should be one of our highest priorities. We make sure our children get enough sleep, do their homework, brush their...
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Phytic Acid in Grains? No Problem!
One of the concerns we hear about eating grains and legumes from the low-carb, high-protein advocates is that grains/nuts/legumes contain a compound called "Inositol hexaphosphate (IP-6)" or better known as the anti-nutrient phytic acid or phytate....
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Is Olive Oil Really "Heart Healthy?"
Olive oil is as American as baseball and apple pie. Its monounsaturated omega-3's have long been touted for being "heart healthy." But if olive oil ready did protect our hearts from heart disease, then why do one out of every three Americans die from...
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Baxter Montgomery, MD
Doctor Baxter Montgomery, Board Certified Cardiologist and Cardiac Electrophysiologist, knows how to use all of the most advanced tools in the world to treat heart disease, but has found that prevention through eating a healthy plant based diet is the...
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What are the health consequences for children who consume the Standard American Diet (SAD)?
It's been predicted that today's children will be the first generation whose life expectancy is shorter than that of their parents . This can be largely attributed to the diet we feed our children . Busy schedules and inaccurate nutritional information...
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The McDougall 10-day Live-in Program
In a 10-day program, Dr. McDougall and his team assist their patients in regaining their health. Within just a few days, many see a significant improvement in their diseases and are attributed to a nutritious diet, exercise and improving daily habits....
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What are the advantages for children eating a Starch-Smart® diet?
Adopting a Starch‐Smart diet for our family can be one of the best decisions that we can make for our childrens' health and wellbeing. Taking time to educate ourselves, plan, and provide nutritious foods can provide long-term future health benefits for...
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Eating Meat Raises Estrogen at Cellular Levels
We see the evidence of over estrogenization all around us. Men and women, boys and girls in modern society are all suffering. Over estrogenization is closely related to the amount of excess weight we carry. According to the Center for Disease Control...
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Finding Relief for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
It is believed that as many as 1.4 million Americans suffer with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Symptoms can include diarrhea, constipation, bowel urgency, stomach pain, cramping, bloating, bloody stools, fatigue, loss of appetite, weight loss, skin...
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Vegetable Consumption Being Sidelined
Let's talk about trends. If you're a banana, a carrot, or a head of lettuce, the future isn't looking too bright for you right now. The Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBHF) commissioned a study and found that fruit and vegetable consumption has...
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Controlling Weight with Circadian Rhythms
"It's not nice to fool Mother Nature," said the Chiffon margarine commercial of the 1970s. According to Chiffon, it was possible to "fool Mother Nature," but if we did it — said the commercial — we would suffer the consequences. Today, we know that...
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Lacto-Fermented Foods Linked to Esophageal Cancer
Did our ancestors have wisdom that we can recover to help us with our modern health problems? Both the Weston A. Price Foundation and the promoters of Paleolithic diets claim this is the case. They suggest that the deficit of lacto-fermented foods in...
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Water Fast Shrinks Cancer and Other Fasting Studies
Our bodies have a miraculous ability to heal from lifestyle related diseases ! We should, however, stop doing the things which brought on our disease conditions in the first place. When we stop putting fuel on a fire, the fire goes out. This is how...
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Is the Fructose in Fruit Bad for Us?
We've all heard that fructose is the sugar in fruit. But high fructose corn syrup contains 55% fructose... and we all know that we should avoid this highly refined sugar. So it begs the question, is the sugar (fructose) in fruit bad for us? Dr. Michael...
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ED is a Warning Sign of Clogged Arteries
Did you know that Erectile Dysfunction (ED) is often referred to as " the canary in the coal mine ?" This expression originates from the time when coal miners would carry caged canaries into the mine to detect carbon monoxide or other poisonous gas...
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Plant Foods = Lower Rates of Disease/Mortality
Everywhere we look, we are confronted with the outcomes of recent studies which tout the benefits of low-carb high-protein diets, saturated animal fats, coconut oil...and the list goes on. Because of this, we thought it would be helpful to start...
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Meat = Higher Obesity & Chronic Disease Rates
Everywhere we look, we are confronted with the outcomes of recent studies which tout the benefits of low-carb high-protein diets, saturated animal fats, coconut oil...and the list goes on. Because of this, we thought it would be helpful to start...
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ADA says Vegan Diets are Nutritionally Adequate
Show Me The Science! Are plant-based diets healthy? It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide...
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