It's All About the Food
There seems to be no end to the number of ailments aggravated or caused by diet. And it seems to be tough for people to give up eating the stuff they just love in the interest of avoiding body fat or an ailment. But some ailments, …
It’s All About the Food has a new column in the Montgomery County News. It is my health and nutrition version of “Dear Abby”, now aptly named “Ask Pat.” Printed below exactly as it appeared in the paper. ——————————————————————————————————————- Hardly a day passes that …
Everybody wants to be healthy. Or maybe we just don’t want to be sick. Isn’t that the same? So the question is, how do we get that to happen? The answer is to use your key. “Get serious,” my editor said. “You have to stop …
Any heart disease in your family? Do you have any kind of heart or artery disease? Odds are really good because cardiovascular disease is the primary cause of death in America. And maybe you are kinda worried about that heart attack, stroke, or aneurysm. …
This can be really scary. Folks with diabetes almost always have some bad stuff, stuff like nerve damage in our feet, eyes, and kidneys as examples.This is not “so what” stuff, rather these can be the beginning of pain, amputations, blindness, and kidney failure.
The operation of the human body is truly magical because it has built-in backup plans. If only we weren’t so good at overriding the magic.
What are your triglycerides and HDL cholesterol? Do you care? When I ask people who are diabetic or those worried about their “cholesterol” what their trigs and HDL measures are, they rarely know. And yet these are crucial pieces of information relative to heart disease …
It’s All About the Food was not written specifically for diabetics. But the truth is that many of the folks who have diabetes got it through a poor diet. This TED Talk by a physician is pointed directly at diabetics, short and easy to understand. …
Diabetics are often told that they have a “progressive” disease, that it will get worse and perhaps that they will eventually need to take insulin shots. But that does not have to be. This video by Dr. Jason Fung explains that perfectly. The Perfect Treatment …
“No one can eat just one.” Remember that potato chip commercial? They were serious. Learn more about how the commercial food industry “engineers” our food cravings.If this had not happened, It’s All About the Food would probably have not been needed to help you protect …