Health & Nutrition

This winter, to have a stronger immune response to the invaders (virus particles that enter your lungs, blood cells, and organs and wreak havoc and cause inflammation) you need to eat a diet high in plant-based foods. Doctors have begun recommending to patients that they switch to a mostly plant-bas…

Heads up to plant eaters: Sugary foods and stress aren’t a good combo for your gut. Get the scoop on how these factors – and others – can put that gut out of balance, possibly driving you to have too much of a fungus called Candida.
Time for some truth-telling: While I fol…

Doctors are taught an average of 1 percent of their total lecture time in medical school learning about nutrition, and now one doctor, Dr. Michael Greger, is out to change that. The average time spent learning about "food as medicine" falls far short of the National Research Council’s reco…

The holidays can be a time for overdoing it: Americans nearly double their amount of alcohol consumption during the holiday season, and this year is likely to be no different, according to a well-known doctor. Drinking, eating, and letting yourself have fun is all part of enjoying the holiday season…

You may be surprised to learn that some of the herbal teas, tinctures, and oils you have on hand have antiviral properties. There are a few things to look for when buying items that contain these essences. When purchasing your teas or herbal drops,  buy organic for the best possible protec…

How do you get a healthy person to try a plant-based diet? You tell them about the recent studies that are appearing day after day that show plant-based eating is better for your heart, reducing risks of cancer and diabetes, liver disease and depression, Alzheimer’s disease and death from ANY…

We are all working from home, within inches of the snack cabinet, and it's murder on your efforts to eat healthily, lose weight, or keep blood sugar low (since spikes lead to insulin surges lead to storing fat, leads to weight gain).
In honor of National Diabetes Awareness Month, we asked a nutrition…

Plant-based eaters are aware of the need to get enough B12, either by taking supplements or eating plenty of foods fortified with the essential nutrient. Iodine might not be on your radar, but a new study shows it should be. Iodine is essential for thyroid function, which regulates metabolism...

The average American adult spends more than 11 hours per day on screens, according to Nielsen, and while they are watching TV, shopping on their laptop, and texting, they also mindlessly reaching for snacks. Now a new study says consumers under-report how much they eat while distracted by multitaski…

Not to cast aspersions on the people I love, but I started to notice something not so flattering about the older folks in my family: They all got irritable and lost their memory as they aged. They also all took statins, daily drugs to lower their cholesterol, and enjoyed a life of eating cheese…