Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.
Heart disease is not a Lipitor, Crestor or even an “anacetrapib” deficiency. It is a complex end result of multiple factors driven by our diet, fitness level, stress, and other lifestyle factors such as smoking, social connections, and, increasingly, environmental toxins.
You can’t exercise your way out of a bad diet.
I don’t need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.
Yet an estimated 99 percent of people who have a problem with eating gluten don’t even know it. They ascribe their ill health or symptoms to something else-not gluten sensitivity, which is 100 percent curable.
When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.
In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.
Glutathione is also the most critical and integral part of your detoxification system. All the toxins stick onto glutathione, which then carries them into the bile and the stool – and out of your body.
All medicine comes down to this: Find out what’s bugging you; get rid of it. Find out what you need; get it. The body does the rest.
Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.
One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes – what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?
The body is one integrated system, not a collection of organs divided up by medical specialties. The medicine of the future connects everything.
The Point, not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit its narrow political agenda.
While weight loss is important, what’s more important is the quality of food you put in your body – food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.
If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.
We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.
There are ways to cut cravings by naturally balancing your blood sugar.
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don’t finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.
Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.
Shrinking someone’s stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn’t address the underlying causes.
Don’t get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.