There is a way to understand how much modern medicine has to offer individual patients. It is a simple statistical concept called the “Number-Needed-to-Treat”, or for short, the ‘NNT’. The NNT offers a measurement of the impact of a medicine or therapy by estimating the ... READ MORE...
Full Fat Dairy vs. Low-fat Dairy – Why Do We Still Care?
April 14, 2016 By Leave a Comment
A recent CBS article shares the results of two new studies that suggest that full fat dairy products may be better for us than low fat dairy products. I decided not to spend any time assessing the design rigor of each study. If the studies don’t ask meaningful ... READ MORE...
The Importance Of Reading Beyond The Headlines
April 1, 2016 By Leave a Comment
A recent study from Cornell University resulted in articles that proclaim that vegetarian diets may be harmful to your health. After reading a few articles and the study abstract, I wrote down my response that I thought might eventually turn into a blog article. But ... READ MORE...
Book Review: “When The Music Stopped”
March 20, 2016 By Leave a Comment
A few weeks back, I noticed a book at the checkout counter at Four Seasons Natural Food Store in Saratoga, NY. The title, “When the Music Stopped”, got my attention as it immediately made me hum (to myself) the tune to the lyrics “the day the music died” from the ... READ MORE...
Whole Food Plant-Based – Seven Years and Counting
March 14, 2016 By Leave a Comment
I’ve been following a Whole Food Plant-Based (WFPB) diet that has been 100% plant based for seven years. I stopped eating extracted oils approximately five years ago. I’ve maintained good health and have had no need to visit a physician during these seven years. My ... READ MORE...
Clinton, Sanders and Trump: The Search for a Plant-Based President
February 27, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Although the observational, experimental and clinical evidence supporting the health benefits of whole food plant-based (WFPB) diets is strong, mainstream America doesn’t seem to be aware of this evidence. The reasons for this lack of awareness are manifold and beyond ... READ MORE...
Do You Need to Supplement With EPA and DHA If You Follow a Whole Food Plant-Based Lifestyle?
February 21, 2016 By 11 Comments
If you bring up the subject of supplementation with a group of whole food plant-based (WFPB) advocates, it’s almost guaranteed to ignite a lively debate. In an earlier article, I wrote that supplementing with vitamin B-12 is necessary for anyone following a 100% ... READ MORE...
More Bad News About Heartburn Medications
February 17, 2016 By Leave a Comment
It seems like every time I turn around, I’m reading about new health risks associated with a popular class of heartburn medications called Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs). In December 2013., in response to research showing that PPIs can increase the risk of developing ... READ MORE...
Review of “Thin Diabetes, Fat Diabetes” by Laurie Endicott Thomas
February 9, 2016 By Leave a Comment
In his December 2015 newsletter, Dr. John McDougall strongly endorses Laurie Endicott Thomas’s book “Thin Diabetes, Fat Diabetes”. Although Dr. McDougall’s opinion holds an awfully large amount of weight with me, my initial thought was that I probably wouldn’t ... READ MORE...
Is It OK To Call Kale Healthy?
January 24, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Michael Ruhlman’s article: “No Food Is Healthy: Not Even Kale” mostly deals with how we describe food semantically. He doesn’t like the idea of calling foods ” healthy”. He’d rather that “healthy’ foods be called nutritious. Why I Disagree The problem is that the ... READ MORE...
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