Articles in Nutrition category
How Low Can I Go?
More than once I’ve made myself a nutritional guinea pig; this time to address the nagging issue of elevated blood glucose. Like most Americans, for most of my pre-forty years I was a compulsive carbohydrate junky; surviving off of pasta, bread, cakes cookies and graham crackers ubiquitously found in hospital snack areas.
Empty Jars
It’s peculiar how objects that are so much a part of an everyday life can gradually become unnoticed as life changes. The other day I was cleaning the kitchen counter and became aware of two large empty jars sitting in the shadows of a corner underneath cabinets.
Healthy Recipe Idea: Winter Squash & Edamame Pasta
My wife was baking acorn squash for her nutrition class. She teaches at the community college and each week tries to offer a sampling of healthy foods and new flavors the students may have never been exposed to.
Hedge Your Best Against Cancer (Yes, Cancer!)
If you set about to create a diet that would induce cancer in the human body, the average American diet would be a good place to start. This morning on the way to work traffic was backed up behind cars waiting for the new item at a local fast-food restaurant— fried baloney biscuits.
Healthy Recipe Idea: Basil Chicken & Bok Choy
This light and healthy dish features bok choy, basil and tahini. Bok choy, also known as Chinese cabbage, is rich in fiber, vitamin C, folate, beta-carotene and indoles.
Delicious Stir Fry with Potent Anti-Cancer Components
I bet you never knew that preventing cancer could be so delicious! Every ingredient in this recipe has a powerful anti-cancer component.
Tips for Keeping Healthy this Holiday Season
The act of sharing a celebratory meal with friends and family can be a health experience in itself. Holiday meals can be made to be healthy. Just the fact that people tend to cook fresh food is a step in the right direction!
Disease Cause #1: Oxidative Stress
Oxidative stress, a term unfamiliar to most people, is possibly the most significant overall factor in aging. The most ubiquitous factor of disease, oxidative stress, is continuously present in all living things and is definitely one to know about. So what is this peculiar-sounding term? The answer is right under your nose…
Disease Cause #3: Poor Nutrition
You can tell a lot about a person’s health just by examining what he or she eats. As much as the wrong foods can cause ill health, the right foods can be protective from damage resulting from other factors of disease. Ironically, here in one of the wealthiest countries on the planet, many (if not most) people are suffering from malnutrition. Not the protein-deficiency malnutrition found in the third world, but a form that is self-imposed.
Genetics: The Deciding Factor
Anyone who has seen the size of an average medical textbook would be obligated to wonder how so many diseases could come from such a short list of causes. The answer lies in our genes: Our individual genetic blueprints are so diversely different that an almost infinite number of diseases can come from a lifetime of exposure to a limited number of stress factors.
Recipe Idea: Pumpkin Buckwheat Waffles
I’ve been experimenting with breakfast ideas, trying to trim wheat and some carbs out of the start-the- day-meal. Creating a healthy breakfast that doesn’t raise your blood glucose and contains healthy fats is a real challenge. Eggs certainly pass for healthy, but most classic breakfast ingredients do not. And sneaking vegetables into breakfast is a near impossible assignment.
Pear & Avocado Salad
An exotic and delicious light meal or side dish that is perfectly fitting for summer!
Glucose control, part II
In 2010 my New Year’s Resolution was to lower my average blood glucose. Last April, I posted the article How Low Can I Go and vowed to do everything I could to reach consistent fasting blood glucose levels below 90 and an Hb A1c of 5.0% without resorting to medical therapy.
Ten Egg-citing Breakfast Ideas
When my patients start to make diet changes, they often ask: What can I eat for breakfast? The Standard American diet (SAD) typically involves cold cereal. Cereal is often a poor choice because it is processed, involves heating grains to high temperatures and is high in sugar. We so easily choose cereal but will be swayed to think that eggs or avocados aren’t healthy choices.
