5-part series: 5 Things You Must Do To Avoid An Early Death (Part 4)
Part 4: Eliminate and avoid toxins This Part 4 of my 5-part series “5 Things You Must Do To Avoid An Early Death” is designed to enlighten you on all of the possible ways that your body may be downright toxic…and you might not even know it! Although it’s not a pleasant thought, the truth is toxins are all around us and they are pretty hard to avoid. So virtually everyone is harboring toxins in...
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5-part series: 5 Things You Must Do To Avoid An Early Death (Part 3)
Part 3: Engage in Regular Exercise I’m certain that the title of this third installment of my 5-part series “5 Things You Must Do To Avoid An Early Death” caused many an eye to roll. Exercise probably comes in fourth on the list of things that people dread the most, right after public speaking, snakes and spiders. Regardless of your level of affinity (or loathing) for exercise, the fact remains that it is crucial to...
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5-part series: 5 Things You Must Do To Avoid An Early Death (Part 2)
Part 2: Explore options to modern medicine The title of this second installment of my 5-part series “5 Things You Must Do To Avoid An Early Death” may have surprised you a bit. Explore options to modern medicine? Why? Aren’t doctors supposed to be experts in health? In theory, yes, but that’s not exactly true in practice. In fact, with the exceptions of acute and emergency care, modern medicine has been an epic FAILURE. If...
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5-part series: 5 Things You Must Do To Avoid An Early Death (Part 1)
Welcome to my 5-part blog series “5 Things You Must Do To Avoid An Early Death.” I think it’s safe to say that most of us don’t want to face an early death and would instead prefer to live a long, healthy life. But sadly, our current state of “health” is not healthy at all. Instead, we now live in a time where the vast majority of us are sick, overweight and medicated and...
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Think you’re health-savvy? Take this quiz and find out!
Here is a quiz to test your knowledge of health facts vs. fiction. The answers follow at the end. Let’s see how you do! Questions: 1. Saturated fats like red meat, butter and eggs raise your risk of heart disease. True or false 2. It’s OK if you don’t have a bowel movement every day. True or false 3. How long can it take your gut microbiome to recover after a single course of...
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Is this diet all it’s cracked up to be?
As a nutrition coach, people are always asking me what I think of a certain diet. It’s not surprising. After all, there are about 30,000 diets in existence so you are bound to come across one you haven’t heard of and want to get the skinny on it. Many diets are what I call “repackaged”—meaning they are similar to an existing diet, but just have a new name and a few different tweaks. Tom...