A Challenge to Manage Stress

A Challenge to Manage Stress

Stress and Our Lifestyle If the constant pressures of relationships, social media, finances, work, school and health are stressing you out, then you need a challenge to manage your stress. Or how about the dreaded social media that always keeps us logged on—even...
FAD Diet Regrets

FAD Diet Regrets

Years ago, while teaching a class of third-year medical students about the dangers of FAD diets, I was quite surprised to hear many students talking about this trend. Rather unsettling was the fact that [1] “on average, students in medical schools across the country...
Why is Nutrition Important for Our Health?

Why is Nutrition Important for Our Health?

These days it’s not hard to find articles discussing how nutrition affects disease. Even Time magazine [1] reports that healthcare practitioners are “becoming frustrated by the slow progress of drug treatments in reducing food-related diseases”.  According to the...
My Food-Allergy Journey

My Food-Allergy Journey

The DIAGNOSIS It’s not uncommon to start a “better-health” journey after receiving a new diagnosis.  This is my story and the reason I began traveling down the unfamiliar path to better health.  After struggling for years with chronic digestive issues, migraine...
Preventing Health Ambush

Preventing Health Ambush

The holidays are over—you’ve survived the planning, running, baking, cooking, partying, shuffling, shopping, and the dreaded eating what you know you shouldn’t and not sleeping like you know you should!  Fortunately, you renewed your commitment to begin the new year...