Category: Nutrition Fact verse Fiction
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Is The Carnivore Diet Right For You?
If you are considering this diet yourself, the first thing you should think about is your ‘why’, why do you want to do this diet? Is it because you have chronic inflammation in your joints, your stomach or in your skin? Is your mental health suffering and your medications are not working? Perhaps you have…
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Fact vs. Fiction: A Deep Dive into Type 2 Diabetes, Part 2
If they believe two or more of these lies their eyes will be closed to the solution of what will reverse their Type 2 Diabetes and give them a normal A1C. They need to know that it is their diet that is causing their Type 2 Diabetes. It can be fixed and they can reverse…
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Fact vs. Fiction: A Deep Dive into Type 2 Diabetes
If you separate the fact from fiction surrounding your condition, there is hope. You can hope to have a normal hemoglobin A1C, not be dependent on medications, and not be worried about losing a leg or a foot, your vision or having bad kidney function.
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Iodine: The Forgotten Mineral Crucial For Health
There are many negative side affects that can occur with an iodine deficiency including fatigue and weakness, trouble losing weight or unexpected weight gain, hair loss, swelling on your neck and even trouble learning and remembering. If babies experience an iodine deficiency while in the womb or while breast feeding and growing, they are more…
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Ozempic: The Truth About The Latest “Diet Drug” Part 3
We must keep in mind that over-weight and obesity are complex chronic disorders that are caused by a multitude of factors. Behaviors’ and habits around diet and exercise, environment, genetics and even other medications that may be associated with weight gain, are a big part of the picture. So if you remove one of these…
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Ozempic: The Truth About The Latest “Diet Drug” Part 2
You will need to discuss how many days you have to avoid the drug before your surgery because the danger of having undigested food in your stomach during surgery. Undigested food can lead to reflux aspiration which cause aspiration pneumonia. This happens if you aspirate the contents of our stomach up into your lungs; symptoms…
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Ozempic: The Truth About The Latest “Diet Drug”
Like anything in our society, people want a quick and easy solution and Ozempic is that solution for weight loss; or at least it appears to be. One of the problems our society faces is that the majority of people have been convinced that there is an easy solution to every problem, we don’t have…
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Seed Oils: From Toxic Waste to Staple Ingredient
Through clever marketing hacks, seed oils like Crisco became a staple in the North American diet and a product that was seen as a waste product in the 1860s, became a common table food by the early 1900s.
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Nutrition: The Ultimate Facelift
Do these creams and serums really work, and is giving your hard-earned money to these multi million-dollar beauty companies the best way to maintain healthy and youthful skin? The short answer is no. Your skin is an organ, and like any other organ in your body, it’s health and appearance mainly depend on what you…
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What makes a Superfood “Super”: Imposters vs. the MVPs
The term super food has been utilized by food producers for marketing purposes to sell their food as healthy when, in reality, it may not be that “super”, but where did this start?
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The Truth About Cholesterol
Cholesterol, if you have done any research into dieting, healthy eating or just generally care about your health, you have most definitely heard a lot about this topic. But what exactly Is cholesterol? What is the purpose of it and why, for years, have we heard from doctors and dieticians for that high cholesterol is…