Yogurt has the highest lysine content of any common food, and it can make for a good cold sore remedy, says Jim Roach, MD, founder of the Midway Center for Integrative Medicine, Midway, KY. Speaking at the Healthy Medicine Academy’s 2012 Advances in Cancer Strategies conference, Dr. Roach said that lysine is important for strengthening […]
Amid the clamor over metanalyses suggesting that organic veggies are no more nutritious than conventional, and that omega-3’s don’t reverse heart disease, another important metanalysis got totally overlooked: the one showing that anti-hypertensive drugs are largely ineffective in people with Stage 1 hypertension.
Functional medicine pioneers including Drs. Jeffrey Bland, Susan Blum, Joel Evans, Wendy Warner, Mark Hyman and many others will gather in southern California at the end of September for the first-ever Lifestyle Medicine Summit. The goal? To share with clinicians from across the country, effective nutrition and exercise strategies that could–if widely implemented–greatly reduce the […]
The Organic Consumers Association, and other environmental health advocacy groups are taking to task a large number of food and beverage companies they view as “organic traitors” that have been cashing in on the organic movement while actively opposing GMO labeling initiatives. In it’s latest newsletter, OCA blasted the “gross hypocrisy and greed of large […]
Office-based exercise testing for cardiovascular risk provides many potential benefits to patients, while creating much-needed new revenue for cash-strapped primary care practices, says Corey Evans, MD, a family physician at St. Anthony’s Primary Care in St. Petersburg, FL. “If you use the tools of stress testing plus intimal medial thickness measurement, you can do a […]
“We have to go to an organic sustainable system or we’ll starve.” That’s not your typical granola munchin’, Prius-drivin’ food coop managin’ eco-citizen talking, but Jeremy Grantham, a highly successful investment banker, who just so happens to match keen financial instinct with an equally keen understanding of reality. In an article by Mark Bittman in […]
Two new studies of an innovative yoga program specifically designed for cancer survivors add to existing data showing that yoga can improve sleep, reduce “chemo-fog” and ameliorate a variety of chronic problems that often follow conventional cancer care.
Molly Roberts, MD, president of the American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA), recently visited France, where she had an opportunity to see that nation’s healthcare system in action. She was impressed with what she saw. Critics of European-style healthcare often decry France’s system as the epitome of everything wrong with “socialized” medicine. According to Dr. Roberts, […]
A new and interesting angle on the vitamin D story is emerging from research on weight gain in older women. The vitamin, it seems, is an important metabolic signal that indirectly regulates the propensity to store fat.
Clinicians, ecologists and healthy food advocates will gather next month in Broomfield, CO, for a day-long conference exploring the health impact of genetically modified foods. The “Seeds of Doubt” conference features talks by Dr. Robert Rountree, Dr. Don Huber, and noted food author, Francis Moore Lappe.
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