You can’t pick up the paper or scan the online headlines without seeing something about cholesterol and heart health. Recent headlines challenged the guidelines and argued more people need statins. If you read my previous article on cholesterol, you’ll know why that’s not the answer. In this article, I’d like to share with you why why LDL cholesterol is not ‘bad’ and why having your good LDL numbers doesn’t mean you are safe from a heart attack or stroke. Cholesterol levels are not a good predictor of your heart health and in this article, you will begin to see why [Read More]
Dec 042013
Many people looking to avoid fructose, but yet not consume too much glucose, turn to alternative sweeteners. The natural ones, such as raw honey, date sugar, and real maple syrup provide some good options. Others, such as sugar alcohols and artificial sweeteners, pose health concerns far more damaging than actually consuming sugar. In this article, I want to look at one of those: aspartame. Aspartame, sold under the name NutraSweet or Equal, is responsible for more than 75% of all food additive complaints to the FDA. It has been shown to cause, mimic or trigger serious conditions such as Lupus, [Read More]
Greetings from India! I spent some time around Delhi, saw the Taj Mahal, and am now on my way to Rishikesh, a beautiful town in the Himalayas along the banks of the Ganges, for the International Yoga Festival. This newsletter will be short and will include a few tips until I can write more. If I have internet access, I’ll post on the New England Health Advisory Facebook page while I’m there! This first tip is one that has come up a few times over the past weeks. A woman at one of the gyms I teach at mentioned it [Read More]
You may remember the controversy about several years ago over melamine-tainted baby formula in China. Several well-known baby food manufacturers sold melamine-tainted baby formula in an effort to make the milk appear to have a higher protein content than it actually did. The infants who consumed it developed kidney complications including kidney stones. Six infants died, thousands were hospitalized and hundreds of thousands more were affected. Melamine is banned for use in food products, which is a good thing because it combines with cyanuric acid, which can be found in drinking water and in animal feed, inside the body and [Read More]
Several weeks ago I wrote about the first long-term study on the impact of GMOs. The ten year study out of Europe has shown conclusively that GMOs and GE foods are not harmless: they cause damage to the digestive system and our ability to digest proteins, change the micro-structure of our intestines, alter our immune systems and cause us to eat more, gain weight — and retain the weight – than would occur with a non GE diet. Now another study out of France has followed rats through their lifespan, which typically lasts two years, and found severe health concerns [Read More]
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