Satisfying sweet tooths (teeth?)

Does it seem that the more sweets you eat the more you want? Well, it really does work that way for at least couple of reasons. One is that when your blood sugar spikes because of a sugar load, insulin brings it down but it can over-compensate. Then, when your blood sugar is low (hypoglycemia), […]

Too bad your dentist can’t fix a “sweet tooth”

I did a quick internet search for the origin of “sweet tooth”. Vocabulary.com reported “The phrase has been used in English for hundreds of years, since the late fourteenth century, and it comes from toothsome, an even older word meaning ‘delicious or tasty’. This sense of tooth standing in for taste gave rise to sweet […]

Chocolate!

I have been curious about AI (artificial intelligence) being used to write articles (and term papers!). So, just for fun, I thought I’d give it a try on a topic of general interest but where no great harm would be done if the robot got the info wrong. (E.g. I wouldn’t ask a bot for […]

Breathing can be good for your health!

Yes, I know…you’ve been breathing regularly all your life. But…there is more to that story. This week’s blog is an extension of last week’s, Think your way to better health! Thinking about our breathing helps our health in many ways as is pointed out in the following article by Andrew Shepherd, DC. Also, check out […]

Think your way to better health!

Does that sound silly? It should not since you know at the least what you think determines your actions. Your actions can obviously either build health (e.g. go for a walk in nature) or destroy it (e.g. swallow a back alley discount pain killer that turns out to contain fentanyl). Beyond that, the brain tells […]

D is Dramatic

The consequences of vitamin D deficiency are indeed dramatic and not at all good. For far too long (according to Jeff Bowles, since the 1930’s), vitamin D has been underrated and even unfairly disparaged apparently to avoid distracting from drug approaches to health. We won’t be able to give the sunshine vitamin its due here, […]

25 Weight Management Ideas

Photo from Harvard Health Letter Still recovering from bad eating behavior on a recent cruise, I needed to review these ideas and see which ones might speed my process. You may already use some of these tricks, but hopefully there is something useful. The best results for weight and health are had by planning to […]

Please be clear about “Science”

Two weeks ago in the newsletter, I said I was skipping the blog to work instead on a letter to the editors of the Dallas Morning News because it was a very important matter. The paper asked me to verify my sources which I did. They said they would publish the letter on Thursday but […]

Sardi interview review

On the replayed show this week, Bill Sardi explained some things what our doctors should tell us about our health from just seeing us walk in the door. Listeners and I had also asked questions and since the show was so packed with valuable information, I thought it would be helpful to do a review. […]

Portion sizes and other label silliness

We’ve all seen warnings in instruction manuals and on labels that we think are at the least unnecessary and often just wacky. Here are some examples. From Pictures sent around the internet: The photo shown above. [Really? Curious now how they do laundry in China.] On a pizza box— “Open box before eating pizza.” [Well, […]

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