Why are rates of this disease soaring?
If you are an adult in the US, chances are good that you may have a quiet, sneaky disease lurking inside of you and you have no clue that there’s a problem. This disease often doesn’t cause symptoms. But lo and behold, when it does, there will be no doubt in your mind that something is seriously wrong. I’m talking about diverticular disease. Diverticular disease is the umbrella term used to describe the conditions...
Does this protect you from deadly cancer?
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. ...
- Tags: Cancer, Hair and Skin, Healthy Living, Toxins
What you must know about Lyme disease
If you ask the average person what they know about Lyme disease, they will likely say that it’s rare, it comes from a tick bite and it is treated with antibiotics. Oh, if it were only that simple! Unfortunately, the prevalence of Lyme disease continues to grow, it doesn’t always come from a tick bite, and antibiotics aren’t effective against the long-term symptoms. Here’s what I mean—this is what you must know about Lyme...
- Tags: Inflammation, Lyme disease
The key to a healthy mouth & smile—Hint: it’s not toothpaste
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...
Putting on weight and have no energy? This may be why.
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...
Why don’t we ever hear about this virus on the news?
Viruses have been a topic of media focus over the last several decades, with COVID-19 and all its variants most recently. Plus there’s Zika, Ebola and H1N1 in the past, and of course the flu emerges as a mainstream media fear-inducer every fall. But there’s another virus that is far more prevalent than any of those and it affects up to 95 percent of Americans, but the “news” is completely mum on the subject! ...
- Tags: Epstein-Barr, Immune Health