Nutrition

For decades, people have debated whether or not it is healthy to eat eggs. I remember long heated discussions with my grandmother about this very issue back when I was in medical school. “Eat eggs – they are filling with lots of protein and healthy!” she would say. I’d reply, “Yeah, but what about the […]

2020 is over, and 2021 is finally here! With the start of any new year, and in particular, after an arduous year like 2020, many people make a commitment to starting the year off right by getting healthy! And what do we do to get healthy? We set workout and weight loss goals. One of […]

For decades, medical journals have reported effects of certain types of diets on medical problems. For example, we know that ketogenic diets can reduce seizures in children with epilepsy, and that Mediterranean diets can reduce the risk of heart disease. People are experiencing heightened levels of stress, anxiety, insomnia, hopelessness and depression. Is there any […]

For decades, people working towards losing weight have turned to different types of diets for weight loss – low-fat, low-carb, low-calorie TV Dinners delivered to the house, skipping meals and other trendy solutions. For a time, people were eating ancestral diets (“Paleo”) and now there is again a trend to do ketogenic diets (“Keto.”) Many […]

This study looked at how many of the calories in nuts are actually extracted when we eat them and found that a lot of the nuts pass through our system undigested. [Read more]