by drfred | Aug 7, 2015 | Children, Diet, Nutrition
With school starting, I thought I’d share with you all one of the most important things you can do to help your child be at their best throughout the day: breakfast. It’s a simple but unfortunate fact of life these days. Just about everyone is pressed for time...
by drfred | Jul 7, 2015 | Diet, Weight Loss
Fasting—the practice of abstaining from foods during specific times of the year or in connection with specific events—has been a part of many religions and cultures for millennia. In this day and age, though, dramatically decreasing your caloric intake may also seem...
by drfred | Jun 30, 2015 | Diet, Exercise, Weight Loss
Taming Your Body Fat Keeping your body fat within a normal range gets harder as the years go on. But, with a few relatively small, easy-to-implement changes, and assuming there are no other factors involved (such as a chronic health problem), if you make a few small...
by drfred | Apr 17, 2015 | Diet, Nutrition
We all know that some foods are more nutritional than others. What you might not realize is that the way you prepare your foods or the combinations that you put together in meals could make a difference in how many of those nutrients are actually absorbed by your...
by drfred | Mar 4, 2015 | Diet, Nutrition, Weight Loss
Have you ever noticed that some meals keep you feeling full for hours while others leave you scrounging for a snack in what seems like no time at all? You’re not alone. Research conducted by Sydney University in Australia found that a food’s ability to...
by drfred | Dec 1, 2014 | Bones, Diet, Exercise
When it comes to leading a healthy, active lifestyle in middle age and beyond, maintaining your bone density (also called “bone mass”) is very important. To really understand the challenges associated with this—and to appreciate the opportunities—it’s necessary to...
