How Has (What Should Be) Common Sense Become Headline News?

In the Times today, there was a short article discussing how fitness may lower dementia risk.  A few key comments from the piece include: “After adjusting for age, smoking, diabetes, cholesterol and other health factors, the researchers found that compared with those in the lowest 20 percent for fitness in midlife, those in the highest […]

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The “Secret Food” of Athletes?

I was lured by the title of an article on the front cover of a magazine my husband receives as a thank you for having subscribed to some other publication he actually wanted. In large, yellow letters, it read “The Secret Food of Athletes”.  I just had to read it.   Unsure as to exactly […]

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A Pancake Benefit to Raise Funds for Hospital. Perfect.

A headline last week in a publication in the Pacific NW stated, “ “IHOP is giving away free pancakes all day today, and all the restaurant is asking for in return is for customers to think about making a donation to Seattle Children’s Hospital. The free short stack of pancakes will be available to everybody from […]

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Goodbye, Graham…

It was the last time I’d make his breakfast. I knew it didn’t really matter anymore, but I still gave him his AM dose of the Clavamox he’d been taking for the last week. He’d developed a UTI from wearing diapers after the last ditch attempt to try one last thing (prednisone) to see if […]

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Slim Is Simple

This is a must-see.   “Slim is Simple” is a “non-profit ancestral nutrition educational organization which provides compelling ancestral multimedia resources—free of charge—that the educational and health communities can leverage to help share the simple nutrition science our country is literally dying for. The organization is  working to get this ‘curriculum’ into schools and churches and […]

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Smaller Portions Coming Soon!

I actually feel a bit embarrassed when I travel abroad and face a question posed by many: Why are your portions in the US so gigantic? Gulp. It wasn’t my idea. We’ve likely all seen the documentaries which detail how small a burger and soda were in the 50s…compare that to present day.   I […]

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Finally, Some Praise for Paleo

An article in the Billings Gazette was refreshing in that it reviewed Paleo favorably… it’s about time!   Written by an MD, who specializes in pediatric gastroenterology, no less, it does a fair job of outlining what Paleo is all about and despite its title being ever so slightly off-putting (“Going Paleo From A Standard […]

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Why Make Changes? Just Stick on a Band-Aid!

A client shared an ad with me the other day; it was for a six minute video featuring an elderly, overweight women sharing about how her diabetic nerve pain became so debilitating, she had to seek medication.  Despite the potential side effects (copied and pasted from Lyrica’s own site) below, she opted to take it […]

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Chewy Meat?

Wondering why that ‘stew’ meat you bought turned out so chewy?   It’s not as though you bought cheap meat, in which case you might expect it to be a little on the tough side.  After all, you made the effort to be sure it was 100% grass fed and, since you were making kabobs, […]

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Paleo Takes the Blame…Inappropriately

Let’s face it.  Paleo is still greatly misunderstood by the masses, and those masses, unfortunately, tend to include doctors, nurses, dietitians and many other ‘healthcare’ providers. Why else would it be commonplace for people of all ages, in varying degrees of health or illness, to be told that their ‘radical diet’ may be to blame […]

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