by drfred | Nov 12, 2014 | Diet, Natural Health Care, Nutrition, Supplementation
In this infographic I’ll share the 3 main strategies I use to help clients fix a “broken diet” and start eating better. I’ll also share how we troubleshoot eating plans when they’ve “just stopped working” and you don’t know what else to try. And, finally, I’ll show...
by drfred | Nov 1, 2014 | Diet
Hypertension (high blood pressure) has become a near-epidemic in the U.S. The numbers themselves tell the story. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it affects 67 million American adults today. And slightly fewer than half of them (47%)...
by drfred | Sep 1, 2014 | Diet, Nutrition
We’ve been told for years – and by pretty much everyone involved with either nutrition or health care – that eating more fruits and vegetables is good for you and can improve your life. Well, it turns out that these people weren’t telling us the whole...
by drfred | Jun 1, 2014 | Anti-, Diet
Inflammation is a natural part of the body’s own self-healing mechanism, but is widely misunderstood and misrepresented in the popular press. First, many people confuse the term inflammation with infection—the two are not the same, although the latter often...
by drfred | Apr 15, 2014 | Diet, Nutrition
Experts recommend that we get 9 servings of fruit and vegetables each day in order to stay healthy and reduce our likelihood of a wide range of diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, stroke and cancer. An evaluation of long-term studies conducted in Europe and...
by drfred | Mar 1, 2014 | Back Pain, Diet, Exercise, Nutrition, Supplementation
“Enzyme therapy” is a very broad term that can refer to any of a wide range of (mostly alternative) medical treatments intended to address particular health problems. What they all have in common is that they use enzymes—large biological molecules (usually proteins)...