Do you have a friend or family member who has been diagnosed with colorectal cancer? For most of us, the disease has touched someone close to us or in our lives. Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States in both men and women. This year we can expect to […]
The best way to evaluate the quality of your sleep is to look at the quality of your wakefulness during the day. Do you function with alertness at your job and while driving – or do you tend to fall asleep without a constant caffeine boost?
If you are someone who can work creatively, drive dependably and carry on quiet activities (reading, conversations) without falling asleep, you might be getting better sleep than you realize.
Another health problem is linked to the accumulation of fat around the middle: colon cancer.
Although researchers publishing online in the Journal of Cancer Research admit that “only” half of the cancers are affected by lifestyle conditions of inactivity and obesity, I’d say that is a huge “half”, at 54%.
A newly releasted report on the incidence of breast cancer appeared in JAMA today indicating that the incidence of metastatic breast cancer in women 25- to 39-years of age has almost doubled from 1976 to 2009, from 1.53 to 2.90 per 100,000 women, or a growth rate of over 2% per year.
A recent study done on mice will hopefully show relevance in human experience, if we can get the data. Mice with high risk of breast cancer development were protected with high levels of omega 3 fatty acids.
People mutter that phrase as if it’s a bad thing, but isn’t learning one of life’s great excitements? I’ve been a student of nutrition for almost fifty years, learning from both old masters and new innovators. The thought of studying nutrition in and of itself was fairly innovative when I started reading Adele Davis in the 1970’s, particularly when I tried to incorporate nutritional wisdom (Davis, Francis Moore Lappé, Harvey Diamond) into my medical school curriculum.
A wonderful warm dish for a winter’s evening that nourishes your heart.
Once the realm of “kooks”, the criticisms of fluoride as a drug additive to public drinking water have gained respectability. As described by Dr. Mercola in The Huffington Post, a recent study performed at Harvard University, funded by the National Institutes of Health, compares evidence available from 27 previously published studies. Twenty-seven!
An international study of hundreds of thousands of children and teens found a strong correlation between consumption of fast food and synptoms of asthma, eczema, and rhinitis. Eating fast food meals at least three times weekly was associated with a 39% increased risk of severe asthma in teenagers.