Improve your fitness. Preserve your health.
I believe that food, exercise, sunlight, fresh air, relationships, and stress affect our health more than we will ever know. It is these things that we need to be spending our time, money, and effort on in order to live a healthy life. It is our daily habits that will determine the overall quality of our health.
So being the new year once again, what can we do differently to stick to our healthy habits in 2016 and beyond? [Read more…]
Can changing the food you eat really make a difference?
It can … if you let it.
I’m going to let you in on a little secret. It’s a basic truth that we’ll never find a loophole for. We may be able to use all sorts of heroic measures to buy us time, but in the end it all boils down to one basic truth. [Read more…]
Food Matters.
Unfortunately this is not the message most people seem to be receiving, at least not the ones that end up in my office. I cannot count the number of times I have heard a patient say, “My doctor told me that what I eat doesn’t make a difference.”
I am here to reassure you that what you eat does make a difference. How could it not?
About eight years ago I would have considered a smoothie a healthy snack or breakfast. It didn’t really matter what type of smoothie, at that point I lumped them all together in the “health” category. I know I’m not the only one because smoothie bars are popping up everywhere and patients are often reporting smoothies as part of their regular diet.
From working out to eating breakfast on the run, you probably have been encouraged to have smoothies as part of your daily routine. It is an easy way to increase your protein intake, which is necessary for muscle growth. What could be easier? Add protein powder to some blended fruit, yogurt, and/or fruit juice. After some investigation I now know this could be a huge problem and here’s why: [Read more…]
Do you suffer from fatigue, weight gain, hair loss, constipation, feeling cold all the time, dry skin, or infertility?
Have you read somewhere that these are all symptoms of a thyroid problem and thought to yourself, Finally – I now know why I feel so crappy?
Have you then gone to your doctor to have a blood test done to confirm your suspicions only to be told that your thyroid is fine?
This is a common patient story that gets told in my office.
