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3 Uses for Lavender Essential Oil for Toddlers

After having baby, I quickly realized how helpful essential oils were going to be in my life.

5 years

Natural Weight Loss and Meal Timing

It’s not only what you eat but also when you eat that impacts weight loss.

5 years

The Healthy Path to Losing Unwanted Pounds

Are you struggling to get on a healthy path and lose those unwanted pounds?

5 years

Calories Made Combustibly Simple

The recently published CALERIE trial should sound the death knell of every fad diet that ever was, is, or would be (it won't, of course). The study showed, in the proverbial nutshell, that calorie restriction, per se, causes weight loss in the overweight, which in turn causes an array of improvements in the customary measures of cardiometabolic risk. 

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Meating the Enemy, and It Is Us

Even as action in the space of “plant-based meats” (and other meat alternatives) lurches through these early days to a far from certain equilibrium, we have already the certainty of opposing reaction to greet, and “meat” it. We learn that Arby’s, along perhaps with others, and presumably with carnivorous tongue in avaricious cheek, is offering us “meat-based plants.”

5 years

Dietary Guidelines for Sea Lions: Let Them Eat Caviar

Two weeks ago, my associate, Jennifer Lutz, Director of the True Health Initiative, testified at a public session of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee in Washington, DC. More on that presently.

5 years

Can We Keep The Planet Out of The ICU?

That our planet is in peril is not, I trust, a case I need to make. That memo has been delivered, emphatically, stridently, repeatedly to anyone not living under a rock left behind by one of the many melting glaciers.