Health & Nutrition Blogs
Weight Loss Blog: What Makes America Fat?, Part 15 foods and drinks that add weight … and nothing else
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Do You Have an Underactive Thyroid?Current blood tests miss most people who need thyroid treatment
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Health Blog: What Every Father Should KnowFor Father’s Day, we ask experts and family members what fathers need to know about health
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Why You Should Not Count CaloriesBlaming overweight Americans for not counting calories is wrong
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Radiation Blog: Fukushima in Our Food, Part 3Where does radiation concentrate in our food?
Radiation concentrates in milk because cows eat grass, and grass and broad-leafed vegetables such as spinach and kale are among the first crops to accumulate radiation from nuclear fallout when it comes down in rain and dust, settling on the leaves and surrounding soil.
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Health Blog: Three Natural Health Basics I Would Teach Everyone, if I Could…First basic of natural health: eat and drink properly
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Men’s Health Blog: Tackle Male Menopause NowFight the ‘Beer Belly Blues’ with diet and exercise
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GMO Blog: Do We Need Genetically Modified Crops?Are GMO's a blessing or a curse?
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Radiation Blog: Fukushima in Our Food, Part 2
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Radiation Blog: Fukushima in Our Food, Part 1Radiation from Japan's nuclear meltdown detected in milk, fruit and vegetable samples from California farms
Nuclear energy is clean … until it isn’t. The emerging reality of the ongoing nuclear reactor crisis in Fukushima, Japan – now in its third month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami caused nuclear explosions at the plant 150 miles north of Tokyo – is that it is not under control at all.
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Health Blog: Cell Phones Linked to Brain Cancer?Tips to reduce your exposure and risk
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Health Blog: How Can We Treat Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia?There actually is an effective protocol for treating CFS and FMS
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Brain Blog: The brain heals itself!Neuroplasticity – why you can change your brain
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Food Blog: Food Labels and Your Freedom of ChoiceGrassfed beef or BS … how do you know?
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Health Blog: Can You Sleep Your Way to Skinny?Research indicates that sleep affects weight control
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Something very common today is underactive thyroid function – and the under-diagnoses of this problem. However, once it is diagnosed, it can be very easy to treat, and treatment can save your life in addition to making life worth living!
Happy Father’s Day everyone. For this special day, WellWise surveyed experts – and others who just care a lot about fathers – what they would want fathers to know about health.
A recently published consumer study revealed that few people regularly count calories.* The article goes on to say that “keeping track [of calories] is the crux of controlling your weight,” and that “research shows that people who keep track of calories lose twice as much weight as those who don’t.” Puleeze!
Eating well can be treacherous territory. Everywhere you look, you are getting different advice and honestly, that is because there is no one way everyone should eat. But, there is one way you should eat. You just have to learn your way around your own metabolism and your body’s signals when it comes to foods.
If you are over a man over the age of 40, whether you like it or not, you have already begun to experience male menopause, or andropause, a drastic decline in your male hormones. I prefer to call it “beer belly blues,” since two of the hallmarks of male menopause are an enlarged waist circumference and a decline in your once jovial mood. 
Genetically modified crops (GMOs) are rapidly taking over our farmlands. Most of the soybeans, corn and sugar beets grown in the US are now from genetically modified seeds. Cotton and alfalfa are next. So what, you say? Why should you care? Here’s why –
Authorities in the U.S. insist that there is no danger to public health or the environment from the Fukushima nuclear crisis, and that levels of radiation that have been detected in water, air, soil and food in North America since the accident are in such minuscule quantities as to present little to no danger.
We love our cell phones but we also love our brains, and though an agency of the World Health Organization recently rocked the media world with their announcement of a possible link between cell phone use and brain cancer, but they also said the link was pretty weak. In fact, the same agency has previously named alcoholic drinks and night shift work as probable carcinogens.
In 1975, while in medical school, I came down with what I call the “Drop Dead Flu” which triggered my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia (FMS). The medical system had no idea how to help, but I managed to learn what I needed to get well, and you can, too.
It’s fascinating how resilient the brain is and how it can miraculously rewire and restore itself. There are so many stories about people who, after extensive injuries or having part of their brain taken out, have recovered the lost function as one part of the brain takes over the damaged or missing part. In this series of brain blogs, I will be exploring ways to change and improve our own brains – neuroplasticity.
There are a lot of problems with our food system, from safety to deception. Americans tend to trust government to oversee what we eat, and tell us the truth about it. That is a mistake.
Obesity, especially in the United States, is epidemic. There are many causes, some still being discovered, but one of them is – believe it or not – lack of sleep.
