Note To Reality TV Show ‘America’s Next Great Restaurant’… Please Choose Healthy!

Please pick a healthy one for a "change"!! For the sake of all of us!  Someone needs to save us from restaurants like the one in Chandler, Arizona named the “Heart Attack Grill.”   This restaurant makes  a lame attempt at humor about cardiovascular disease and death by giving free “food” such as “Double Bypass Burger and Flatliner Fries” to patrons that weight 350 pounds or more.   Heart Attack Grill had a spokesman named Blair River that weighed... Read More

Added protein/amino acids and or enzymes help those with autism?

There is a new study I read about in an article called “UCSF autism kids study tests enzyme” “UCSF researchers are kicking off a clinical trial to test whether certain children with autism can benefit from regular doses of an enzyme to help them digest proteins, which may in turn improve their brain function and ease some symptoms of their disease…”The treatment is enormously simple, but finding it out wasn’t simple at all,” said Joan Fallon, chief executive... Read More

Teaching Doctors About Nutrition and Diet

September 16, 2010 Teaching Doctors About Nutrition and Diet By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. Within days of being accepted into medical school, I started getting asked for medical advice. Even my closest friends, who should have known better, got in on the action. “Should I take vitamins?” “What do you think of this diet?” “Is yogurt good for me or not?” Each and every time someone posed such a query, I became immediately cognizant of one thing: the big blank space... Read More