We’ve all been told to drink our milk. In fact, the USDA suggests consuming 3 cups of low-fat milk a day. Low-fat milk has been heavily promoted for its bone strengthening benefits, but how healthy is it? And is all milk created equal? The article below examines the current science around this issue. And points out [...]

Western medicine revolves around prescribing pharmaceuticals to treat symptoms. It’s a popular paradigm because pill popping requires much less effort than serious change to diet or lifestyle. But with pharmaceuticals there’s often a price to pay. Fixing one problem may cause another.  Statins, for example, are a commonly prescribed drug for high cholesterol. But a [...]

We’ve all heard the health advice to drink more water, but is our water healthy to drink? NBC news recently reported on a 5-month water quality study that found trace amounts of pharmaceuticals (parts per billion) in the water, ranging from antibiotics to sex hormones to pain medications. The drugs are excreted into the sewage [...]

Zucchini & Yellow Squash "Pasta": Serves 4 Note: The recipe says to julienne the squash and zucchini. This simply means to cut them into thin strands (for this recipe, you want them to approximate the size of the cooked spaghetti strands). You can use a mandolin or the large holes of a box grater or [...]

Genetically modified foods are the hugely controversial topic on 14-year-old Rachel Parent’s mind. She’s started the organization: A Teen’s Right to Know, which pushes for GMO labeling and long term testing. She challenges Kevin O’Leary, from Shark Tank, to debate the merits of GMO on his show after he called GMO opponents “stupid”.  Ninety percent [...]

With the first week of her cleanse behind her and the supplements from the 21 Day Body Makeover supporting her body, Alix Barth continues to share her day by day, meal by meal experience of cleansing (on the road to boot). Not only does she share some of her favorite places to eat in Austin, [...]

In her previous blog post, Alix Barth shared her intention of doing a 21-Day Body Makeover combined with a Whole 30. In this blog post she gives us a look at day 4, 5 and 6 of her cleanse (usually the hardest part) and some tips on cleansing while traveling. She also shares her reason [...]

Recently health blogger, Alix Barth, did the 21-Day Body Makeover cleanse in combination with a Paleo eating program called Whole 30. She writes about her day- to-day experience and the great results she’s gotten from the 21 Day Body Makeover. This is the third time Alix is doing the 21-Day Body Makeover cleanse so she [...]

The Paleo diet is all the rage right now. But many people question this way of eating because there’s a lot of confusion about it. I had Jim Judd, clinical nutritionist from Nutritionalprofiling.com, on the radio show to get the facts straight about the Paleo diet. He talked about some of the myths and misconceptions [...]

What You Should Know For example, in the case of breast cancer, research shows that mammograms can’t detect tumors until they have made 20 cell divisions, which is somewhat of an advanced stage, not an early stage. And according to a 2011 issue of the British Medical Journey, mammograms may actually cause harm in some [...]