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Is Dairy Setting You Up For Painful PMS?

May 20, 2013

It was a beautiful fall afternoon in Brooklyn.  I was spending the day window-shopping around the neighborhood when my phone rang.  It was a former patient of mine.  I had treated her pelvic pain as a physical therapist.  As a physical therapist, I treated pelvic pain symptoms with exercise, hands-on manual therapy, and other techniques [...]

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Confession: My Dirty, Shameless Affair

May 11, 2013

My garden is my part-time lover, absorbing as much time as I sneak in on evenings and weekends. My husband isn’t jealous though, as this dirty love-affair translates as delicious food and a mellow wife for him. We’re wasting no time with making babies. We already have hundreds of leeks, broccoli, kale and cabbage seedlings. [...]

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Are Your Beliefs Making you Fat?

May 6, 2013

Walking to the doctors’ office that day with her 12 year old daughter by her side, Belinda thought it would be the same old thing.  She needed to improve her diet, get more active, yeah, yeah, yeah.  There was no point really.  She had seen her mother spend most of her life dieting, and what [...]

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The Secrets of Easy Fat Loss

March 31, 2013

Are you thinking about how to get into shape for summer? If so, you must listen to this interview. The Fat Burning Man and I discuss his top tips for getting into top shape with nutrition and fitness. How are toxins preventing us from losing fat? How is inflammation keeping us fat? How do low-fat [...]

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How Your Money Affects Your Health

March 26, 2013

The costs of preventing illness are much less than the cost of maintaining one. Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars on treating chronic diseases. The burden of chronic disease is enormous on our finances, time, energy, emotion, and relationships is enormous. Sadly, one in two of us will become the lucky winners of at [...]

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Inflammation: Angel or Devil?

February 2, 2013

Read the full transcript here. Inflammation is both an angel and a devil to your health. It has taken front and center stage because inflammation has a powerful hand in both healing our bodies and in creating chronic disease. It has taken front and center stage because inflammation has a powerful hand in both healing [...]

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How Special Interests Shape Nutrition Messages, Part 2

January 22, 2013

Corporate interests and food politics shape nutrition messages. Is this good for you? Here’s what you need to know. Plus, is our approach to “healthy eating” truly sustainable? This is Part 2 with Andy Bellatti, MS, RD, in peeling back the layers of the complex, and controversial, nutrition climate. In listening to Part 1 and [...]

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Empowered Health: Map Your Personal Microbiome

January 17, 2013

Can bacteria influence whether you acquire modern diseases, like diabetes, cancer, irritable bowel disease or obesity? The answer may lay in your personal ecosystem. You comprise trillions of bacterial cells living within you and all over you, known as “microbiota”. There are more of them than there are of you. Most of them are quite [...]

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How Food Politics Affect Your Health, Part I

January 14, 2013

  Read the full transcript here. Corporate interests and food politics shape nutrition recommendations. Is this good for you? Here’s what you need to know. If you like this, be sure to sign up for the newsletter so that you never miss out on the best nutrition and wellness tips. Lots of people are confused [...]

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What Your Mouth Asked Me To Tell You

January 9, 2013

Did you know that your mouth is a critical gateway to your total body health? Unfortunately, most of us in our modern world do not understand just how critical our oral health is to total health. One of the most notable integrative oncologists of the 20th century, Dr Josef Issels MD, claims that 97% of [...]

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