Whole Food Plant Based Diet

Every day we're asked for a general guideline on a healthy diet, and we recommend a more "whole food plant based" diet.  What does this mean?  A...

Olives

Olives are a delicious healthy snack.  I'd have to admit we eat them almost daily and search far and wide for really good olives.  Here is a fun...

Bon appétit with healthy fats

“Hydrogenated” oils are stuffed full of hydrogen atoms and bad for your health. “Trans” fats are the result of heat and artificial hydrogenation,...

Wahls Protocol

The Wahls Diet is consistent with my long standing recommendation of following a Mediterranean type diet, emphasizing lots and lots of fruits,...

Cholesterol Treatments

Many foods and supplements will improve lab markers that put one at risk for heart disease.  Here is a list of treatments: Cholesterol, LDL...

Amino Acid Therapy

Amino acid therapy may be used to treat a variety of conditions, including Parkinson's disease, restless leg syndrome, anxiety, depression,...

Making Sense of Different Diets

With titles from A to Z, there are hundreds of diet plans and the media headlines are full of tips on “this diet” or “that diet”.  The medical...

Garden of Health

We usually have a garden - a really big garden.  It’s a lot of work, no doubt, but the rewards bring us back year after year.  Somehow the magic of...

Death By Coffee

It’s 5 am and the coffee is made.  Every morning, I do “coffee yoga”, that is my short yoga routine while the coffee brews.  A few years ago I woke...