There are plenty of good reasons why you want to kick sugar out of your life, but keeping your brain intact is the latest and maybe the most important. Most people will agree that one of their greatest fear is death, but what people fear even more than dying is...

I know that this post is going to fly in the face of a lot of nutritional dogma, but I think it is about time we faced up to the fact that calories are not all created equal. What’s more, when you start thinking about your calorie intake and calories that...

The history of health is an interesting study… well, at least for people like me who are interested in both health and history. The reason why the history of health is interesting is that what people worry about has changed over time. Ask someone 200 years...

For something so simple as drinking water, there sure are a lot of opinions out there. I’ve read suggestions that you should drink anywhere between five and ten 8-ounce glasses a day and there are even online water calculators that can determine your water...

Anyone who reads this blog on a regular basis knows that I’m a big proponent of eating better. I support eating better because it is the most powerful way to change your health. Yes, it is more powerful than drugs and even supplements. The second most powerful...

I do yoga every morning… except when I don’t. For the past twenty years, I have done yoga every morning. But there are periods in my life when I get busy and stop doing yoga because I simply don’t have the time. As I write this post, I’m...

Sugar Brain You open a can of soda and pour that sugary drink into your mouth. The sugar travels down your throat and into your stomach and then has a very short trip from your stomach into your blood stream. As that sugar starts to move its way through your body,...

Fountain of Youth I have long said that exercise is a panacea and a cure-all, but new research has just backed up my claim. I find it funny to think that Ponce De Lion, the legendary explorer who went off in search of the fountain of youth, actually found the elixir...

We do a lot of strange things, and unfortunately for our health, they often lead to illness. I think the biggest reason for this is that our memories are short, we think that the things we do every day are the things that humans have always done, but this is just...

Is insomnia robbing you of more than just a good night’s sleep? There are two primary types of sleeplessness: the first is having difficulty going to sleep and the other is having difficulty staying asleep. It is estimated that thirty to forty percent of...