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Diabetes:Fact, Fiction

Today in the New York Times: New Diabetes Cases, at Long Last, Begin to Fall in the United States All I can say is that it must be incredibly difficult to write a factually accurate headline without using too many … Continue reading

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Congratulations!

You made it through another feast of Thanksgiving. You travelled great distances to be with family, or you went to great expense to host. Every effort was made to feed yourself and your guests the traditional meats, vegetables and sweets … Continue reading

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Trust Me, It’s Related

The dreaded scientific reversal, covered very well in today’s New York Times, is a bane to healthy living on many fronts. The Times is talking about when medical advice is given based on old knowledge, that has to be changed … Continue reading

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Dry Breast Solution

What is the worst thing that can happen to your Thanksgiving turkey tradition? Judging by the number of solutions on offer, it would have to be the dry breast syndrome. All fowl have large fat-free breast meat. Not that long … Continue reading

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Don’t Wait for the World

Over 40 percent of death certificates now list diabetes as the cause of death, up from 13 percent twenty years ago. Lustig, Robert H. (2012-12-27). Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease (p. 5). Penguin … Continue reading

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Bitter Tonic

A long time ago, in another age and time, a group of scientists convinced the leadership of a great world power that the reason he had had a heart attack was that he had been eating eggs and saturated fats. … Continue reading

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Gluten Free Reading, Right Here!

If there is one thing that food makers are sure of, it’s that health claims sell food. They don’t need to do any scientific studies to prove it, all they have to do is change the words on the box … Continue reading

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It Drives Me Nuts

There really isn’t anything that a small cog in a big machine can do about how the machine works. I only have control over me and mine, and you only have control over you and yours. Every week, just about, … Continue reading

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It’s Just That Easy

Once you have been off of processed foods for a while you will, like me, discover that you can eat some sugar from time to time and it doesn’t have the same effects on you that it did just a … Continue reading

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What Does Spur Mean?

Poor Sleep May Spur College Weight Gain Here is an intriguing headline found in an article in the New York Times wellness blog. According to the article research has been conducted on a group of college freshmen and it confirms the … Continue reading

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