As an advocate of a whole food plant based (WFPB) diet, I promote a diet dominated by whole and minimally processed plant foods. If you’d like to be able to differentiate between different degrees of food processing, you can watch from 27:33 – 35:24 of the Recapture ... READ MORE...
Diet and Congestive Heart Failure
February 1, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Thanks to the research of Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr., we’ve known for some time that a low fat whole food plant-based (WFPB) diet can reverse coronary heart disease. Reversal involves the reduction of fatty deposits and plaque inside the ... READ MORE...
Chestnuts – The Nutty Outliers
January 28, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Chestnuts – The Nutty Outliers If you are transitioning to a whole food plant based (WFPB) diet, you probably have been told to go easy on nuts, seeds and nut butters – especially if you are trying to lose weight. Nuts and seeds are high-fat foods, therefore they are ... READ MORE...
Two Examples of a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet’s Impact on Kidney Health
January 16, 2020 By Leave a Comment
This earlier article shares some of the research that suggests that a whole food plant based diet is ideal for pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. There are at least two patients that have benefitted from this research. One was able to ... READ MORE...
What About Stevia?
January 6, 2020 By 3 Comments
Someone recently asked me my thoughts about Stevia as a potential replacement for added sugars. I did a quick search on this site to see if I had ever written anything about Stevia. I received the dreaded “Sorry, No Material Matched Your Criteria” message so I didn't ... READ MORE...
Rarer Forms of Diabetes
December 31, 2019 By Leave a Comment
In Chapter 16 of “Thin Diabetes Fat Diabetes” Laura Endicott Thomas begins by stating: “Genes have at most a small influence over whether a person gets thin diabetes (type 1 diabetes) or fat diabetes (type 2 diabetes). The truly genetic forms of diabetes are ... READ MORE...
Childhood Constipation and Dairy
December 19, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Dr. Michael Greger’s recent video entitled “Childhood Constipation & Cow’s Milk” did not tell me something I didn’t already know. However, it was nice to see the strong evidence linking cow’s milk/dairy consumption and constipation summarized as only Dr. Greger can ... READ MORE...
Chronic Kidney Disease and the Dangers of Star Fruit
December 2, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Renal Dietitians specialize in the dietary needs of people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Although I am not a renal dietitian, there have been a few times when I’ve had to counsel people with various stages of CKD who had no access to a renal dietitian. Low ... READ MORE...
The Power of Testimonials
November 25, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Many people know about the abundant amount of clinical, experimental and observational evidence that points to a Whole Food Plant Based (WFPB) diet as the best way to prevent and treat our most common chronic diseases. However, no matter how much people are ... READ MORE...
Waist-to-Height Ratio (WHtR) and Visceral Fat
November 14, 2019 By Leave a Comment
During an annual physical, you are asked to step on a scale and your weight is recorded. Why is your physician concerned about your weight? How does he/she determine if your weight might be an indicator of current or future health problems? Body Mass Index ... READ MORE...
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