Everyone has an Individualized Carb Number for Weight Loss

Diabetes, Health Care

There is no “magic bullet” for successful weight loss, but finding out and keeping to your daily individualized carbohydrate number for weight loss works pretty well!  Your individualized carbohydrate number for weight loss is based on a percentage of your assessed...

Chronic Illness Management

Health Care, Lifestyle Changes

Half of all Americans suffer from at least one chronic disease and the number is growing. A chronic illness or disease is a health condition that lasts more than one year and causes functional restrictions or requires ongoing monitoring or treatment. Chronic illness...

Be Aware of the Risk for Lyme Disease and Co-infections this Spring

General Health, Health Care

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that is acquired from the bite of an infected black-legged (deer) tick. Many people who become infected with Lyme disease do not recall a tick bite. CDC surveillance case data documents that ~30% of confirmed cases lack a reported...

Lower Your Cholesterol and Triglyceride Levels

Health Care, Obesity

A high protein (lean meat), lower carbohydrate meal plan can lower your cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Some of my clients still worry that any meat whether it is lean or not will raise their cholesterol including their triglycerides and lead to heart disease. I...

A Carb is a Carb is a Carb!

Health Care

Everything breaks down to carbohydrates except meat and fat! As I have been checking on other health care providers Facebook pages to see how they are fairing in this time of Coronavirus, I have noticed that some of them are now promoting a plant based diet only. They...

Therapeutic Roles of Turmeric

Diabetes, Health Care, Obesity

Extensive research over the past half century has shown that curcumin, a component of the golden spice turmeric (Curcuma longa), has some promising effects.  Promising effects have been observed in patients with various pro-inflammatory diseases including cancer,...