Year: 2013

When that’s all you’ve got, that’s when you know you’re lost. When your official recommendation (these are from Canada, eh?) defaults to pharmaceuticals over lifestyle changes that free you from those pills, you’re committed to Treatment over Prevention. Follow @willclowerCDA Guidelines (Link To Full Guidelines Here ): All patients with diabetes should start taking...

Why mess with my chocolate? Sure you CAN do it, but why? The cocoa butter they are trying to eliminate helps control cravings by stimulating satiety hormones. That same fat turns out to be heart healthy! See this article from the Cleveland Clinic (http://bit.ly/EpneD) Better Living Through Chemistry definitely...

This AOL infographic is interesting, but misleading. Of course, plain black coffee is wicked healthy for you, as is Green, Black, and Oolong tea. But soda? With its phosphoric acid that can contribute to brittle bones? They list this as “even better”. Weird. I’m guessing that this should NOT be...

Does red meat cause heart disease? Who knows? There are associations between high red meat consumption and heart disease, but there could be reasons for that correlation — it’s not so simple to proclaim or even implicate that “Red meat causes heart disease.” All this article does (http://huff.to/10LnQiP) is...

I’m writing my next book at this moment, which is going to be on chocolate and weight loss.  This morning I ran across this article that has just been pubbed (see below): “Cocoa polyphenols suppress adipogenesis in vitro and obesity in vivo …”SCIENCE-TO-ENGLISH DICTIONARY:The healthy stuff in cocoa reduces the creation of fat cells...

Diabetes prevention strategies. Check out the things in this article associated with diabetes prevention — like, cheese, nuts, wine, a walk. Sounds a lot like the Mediterranean dietary approach. Interesting, too, that those who live a lifestyle close to this pattern tend, statistically, to have a reduced risk of...

Stunned spinach is amazing. Just throw it in a pan with EVOO, S&P, until they’re just soft. Of course, some sliced almonds and dried cherries wouldn’t hurt either! By the way, your non-heme sources of iron require a little Vitamin C on board to help them be more fully...

Best breakfast ever? Southwestern huevos. Start with a bed of black beans, steaming hot and spiced with some chili powder, cumin, S&P. On top of this is placed, with love, crumbled feta to give it a little salty somthin somethin. Next in this pile of wonderfulness is your egg,...

Stress comes from the outside (events, accidents, etc). But it’s effect is on your inside (cortisol, getting sick, and on and on). However, an event can be stressful or not, depending on whether the person lets it get to them. Granted, keeping external events, stupid drivers, and rampant hormonal...

Thirsty for good health? I just posted an article here on coffee as a healthy drink, and immediately ran into this CNN piece highlighting research on soda. These are data from Harvard, and it’s crazy. Get this: Sugar-sweetened beverages are linked to more than 180,000 obesity-related deaths worldwide each year, according...

I love it that we have a National Walking Day. It’s crazy, though, that every day is National Drive To Work And Sit In Your Car day. This article is a good summary of some benefits of walking. And the bottom line is that walking can seem for some...

About that chocolate processing. Good summary article from a woman who is a strong proponent of bee colonies. She didn’t add, though, the interesting way bees interacted with chocolate traditionally. Perhaps the very first additive flavor put into chocolate was actually vanilla, which is derived from an orchid that...