I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect our main governing health agency—the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—to provide true, accurate and reliable information about the causes of death in the US.  Too bad they’re failing miserably to do their jobs.  I say that because there has been and continues to be a huge omission in the CDC’s statistics as they pertain to deaths and mortality, as well as a vast overstatement.    As...

  Warning:  You may find this blog a bit disturbing, and truthfully, I hope you do.  Because our health is being undermined, challenged and downright ASSAULTED by many “players” secretly operating behind the scenes that don’t give a damn whether you live or die.  All they care about is profits.  Period.  And their success is contingent upon your continued ignorance so they can keep making money off you as you get sick and die.  Before...

  If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my 60 years (yes, I am that old) it’s that you should always question products marketed for your “health” or to “protect you.”  Vegetable oils and margarine are excellent examples here.    For the last several decades, saturated fats like butter and red meat have been vilified and said to cause heart disease, while unsaturated vegetable oils and margarine have been marketed as heart healthy.  What a crock. ...

  May is National Dental Care month!  And for those of you like me who are old enough to remember, there was a commercial in the early 70s for Ultra Brite toothpaste featuring the beautiful late actress, Farrah Fawcett.  The camera zooms in as she flashes her famous pearly whites and says, “Mother never told me about Ultra Brite!”  Of course, what the makers of Ultra Brite wanted you to think was that if you...

  Two of the most common concerns people report to their doctors are lacking energy and gaining weight.    This Nutrition coach hears a lot of that too.  But the problem is that trying to pinpoint the underlying cause of low energy and packing on pounds is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.  Could it be your thyroid?  Menopause? Nutrient deficiencies?  Depression?  Medication side effects?  Not exercising enough?  All good possibilities.  But one...

  As far as causes of death go, most people are aware that the top two killers in the US are heart disease (#1) and and cancer (#2). And up until 2020, the third leading cause of death was accidents followed by chronic lower respiratory diseases.  However, that all changed as of 2020.  Because now the CDC ranks COVID-19 as our number three killer.  Death numbers reported by the CDC for 2021 (the most recent...