A Question For Certified Diabetes Educators; WTF? In April of 2015, I wrote an article about pharmaceutical companies offering to provide free nutrition education classes to diabetics at physician ... 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 ... 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 ... READ MORE...
Revisiting Jacobson’s Squid
December 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment
I began following a Whole Food Plant Based (WFPB) diet on March 15, 2009 - the day after I finished reading “The China Study” by T. Colin Campbell, PhD and Dr. Tom Campbell. In October of 2013, I ... READ MORE...
The Battle Of The Diabetic Diets
November 15, 2015 By 2 Comments
This film from 2014 called “Low Carb Diet: Fat or Fiction” makes a convincing case that a low carb, high fat (LCHF) diet should be promoted to treat Type 2 Diabetes. However, it’s only convincing to ... READ MORE...
A Whole Food Plant Based (WFPB) Diet Can Help Make Your Golden Years Golden
November 8, 2015 By 1 Comment
For many years, my reaction to news about someone in their eighties and older being diagnosed with a chronic disease was to conclude that he/she would not be interested in making clinically ... READ MORE...
A Message to Young “Healthy” People
September 19, 2015 By Leave a Comment
I think it’s safe to assume that most people reading this will agree that regular exercise is a good idea if our goal is to live a long, healthy, full-functioning life. I also know that most of you ... READ MORE...
You Can Run From A Bad Diet, But It Will Eventually Catch Up With You
August 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment
In 1969, The Hollies recorded a hit song called “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother “. It’s a horrible song, but until recently, I could always recite the title without lying. My brother David has ... READ MORE...
It’s Time For Nutrition To Get The Respect It Deserves When It Comes To Cancer Research
July 24, 2015 By Leave a Comment
T Colin Campbell has been trying to convince the cancer research community to design and conduct randomized controlled human intervention trials on the effect of whole food plant based diets in the ... READ MORE...
Response to JAMA Article About 2015 Dietary Guidelines
July 1, 2015 By 1 Comment
A recent article appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) entitled “The 2015 US Dietary Guidelines: Lifting The Ban on Total Dietary Fat". Dr. Dariush Mozaffrarian and Dr. ... READ MORE...
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