Wheat Belly: Quick and Dirty #3
In view of the many new readers on the Wheat Belly Blog, many of whom have not yet had an opportunity to read the book but are eager to get started, here is the most recently updated Wheat Belly Quick & Dirty summary. It summarizes the essential dietary strategies of the Wheat Belly approach to 1) avoid all products made from high-yield, semi-dwarf wheat that wreak health destruction along with all other grains, and 2) create a diet that is otherwise healthy and appropriate for all members of the family. In particular, I’ve tried to clarify some items that were unclear in previous versions.
This is the lifestyle ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 28, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle autoimmune blood sugar bowel flora cholesterol Dr. Davis Gliadin gluten gluten-free grain-free grains Inflammation joint pain low-carb Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
When Government Gets to Say What's'Natural '
When the federal government regulates food quality, consumers lose. Unfortunately, aWashington Post article on a recent increase in class-action lawsuits by consumers against food manufacturers over the use of “natural” labels shows how consumer groups are missing this point. In suing food companies, plaintiffs are arguing that these manufacturers (of cheese, in one particular case) are misleadingly labeling their food as “natural” while using milk from cows that use a growth hormone and eat anima l feed made from genetically modified grain.Though the plaintiffs and food companies disagree over what should be label...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 6, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Peter Van Doren Source Type: blogs
Should We Fear an Amazon Monopoly on Healthy Food?
By JASON CHUNG
Two months ago, I wrote about the potential impact of the Amazon purchase of Whole Foods on grocery prices. Both here and in the Boston Globe, I hoped and predicted that Amazon would use its famed distribution network to drive down prices on the healthy and organic foodstuffs that made Whole Foods famous.
I’m happy to say that I was right. Today, on Day 1 of Amazon’s official ownership of Whole Foods, Americans got to see the first tangible impacts of Amazon ownership and, as predicted, it was lower prices. As noted by journalists, the chain once derided as Whole Paycheck should now be ref...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Tech Amazon Jason Chung Whole Foods Source Type: blogs
Why is magnesium so important?
One of the six core strategies in the Undoctored Wild, Naked, and Unwashed program for health and weight loss is restoration of magnesium.
Magnesium deficiency is alarmingly common in today’s world. Why? Our reliance on filtered water that has had all of the magnesium removed, the reduced content of magnesium in modern crops, and the widespread use of proton pump inhibitors—-drugs prescribed to treat acid reflux and ulcers while reducing magnesium absorption.
Remember those darned phytates in wheat and other grains that bind magnesium and other positively charged minerals in the intestinal tract, preventing absorp...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 18, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored Wheat Belly Lifestyle a fib constipation Dr. Davis grain-free grains health healthcare heart rhythm hydrochlorothiazide kidney stones oxalate sudden death Source Type: blogs
Foods rich in prebiotic fibers
Prebiotic fibers are essentially the “water” and “fertilizer” that nourish your bowel flora.These are fibers that you ingest but cannot digest, leaving them for microorganisms in the intestines to consume. Some call prebiotic fibers resistant starch since they are impervious to human digestion and digested by microorganisms. Getting prebiotic fibers is crucial to your health and the success of your diet.
Don’t confuse prebiotic fibers with the more commonly recognized cellulose fibers from bran cereals, bran muffins, and whole grains, not too different from wood fiber. Cellulose is not metabolized by you or by bo...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 5, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored Wheat Belly Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
Eating the Same Foods Repeatedly Is Stupid
Do you have a tendency to eat the same foods over and over?
Are you aware that it’s much better for your overall health, mental functioning, and immunity to take in a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, greens, nuts, and seeds? Eating the same limited foods repeatedly increases the chance that you’ll miss out on certain micronutrients, including many that haven’t been identified or studied yet. A nutritionally restricted diet also increases your susceptibility to disease.
Our forager ancestors moved around a lot and ate nutritionally different wild foods wherever they went. With the rise of agriculture, h...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - June 27, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Source Type: blogs
The World ’s Most Famous Real-Life Cyborgs
In the future of humankind, brain implants could improve our memory. Implanted magnets or RFID chips implanted in our fingers could replace passwords and keys. Exoskeletons could boost our strength, and augment a whole range of our human capabilities. So, it will never be more important to keep the features that make us human, such as empathy, creativity or the ability for change. It is not easy to find the right balance between technology and being human, though. Here, I enlisted real-life cyborgs who might show us positive examples how to do it.
Tiptoeing around humans with machine parts
People imagine cyborgs usuall...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 22, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: TMF Tags: Bioethics Cyborgization future GC1 Health Personalized medicine robotics technology Video Source Type: blogs
What ’ s Behind the Spike in Food Allergies?
By BASIL KAHWASH
We are surrounded by evidence of the enormous impact food allergies are making in our society. The peanut butter and jelly sandwich, once a staple of elementary school lunchboxes, has been banned in numerous school districts across the country. Candy bars are required to alert consumers about any other products processed in the factories where they were made. Gluten-free diets are trumpeted by celebrities and have spawned communities of devoted followers (there’s even a “gluten-free” dating site – I’m not making this up).
However, the spectrum of food allergies is still poorly understood by the ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 25, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Eosinophilic Esophagitis Epi-Pen Food Allergies Gluten Free Dating Source Type: blogs
Chronic pain: The “invisible” disability
Sometime back in 2010, a good friend of mine from college who had since become a pediatrician posted a complaint on Facebook about “made up” health conditions. “Fibromyalgia, I’m looking at you,” she wrote. At this time, pain was more of an occasional visitor in my body rather than the permanent tenant it has since become. Still, I was offended on behalf of those patients with the disease.
Fast forward to today and my life is all about pacing. This is because everything I do — cook, sleep, work, walk — takes time. This gradual approach to every aspect of my life is not about enlightenment or mindfulness. It i...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Laura Kiesel Tags: Health Managing your health care Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 444
Answer: not a parasite; most consistent with banana seeds.This is something that we commonly see in my lab, and I ' ve previously featured other examples of banana seeds on this blog. Here are the links to 2 previous posts:Case 139Case 402Because I ' ve received some degree of skepticism when I ' ve posted banana seeds in the past, I decided to conduct an experiment to see if I could recreate their appearance through some laboratory digestion techniques. So here was my process:Step 1. Sacrifice my banana from lunch for the good of scienceNote the small immature seeds that are seen in these longitudinal sections. A fun fact...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - April 28, 2017 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 184
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 184.
Question 1
Where would you find Schamroth’s window?
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Between two opposing fingers when testing for clubbing.
The normal diamond...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 7, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five animal feeds antibiotics banana banana equivalent dose bed caterpillar induced bleeding syndrome clubbing lonomia caterpillars Nigel effect radiation Schamroth's Window Source Type: blogs
April in Paris: Voyager Avec Enfants (Day One)
For the past six years, we ' d spent the kids Spring Break in Hilton Head, SC. It was a great family tradition--we ' d rent a house on the beach with pool, the kids would play in the sand and swim every day, we ' d cook, do a lot of reading, relax--it wasthat kind of thing. Simple, fun, kid-friendly, crowd-pleasing. However, now that my kids are getting somewhat older, we ' re trying to push ourselves a little bit more with our travel (in the somewhat limited time we have, around our work schedules and the kids school), and so after a very successful trip to London last summer, we decided,you know what, let ' s just go for...
Source: the underwear drawer - April 3, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Michelle Au Source Type: blogs
The 12 Most Influential People In The History of Self Development
My list of the 12 Most Influential People In The History Of Self Development in no particular order.
Don’t take it too seriously I know I’ve missed plenty and that’s why I have a comment section – so you can put me right!
1. Louise Hay
The grand old lady of self development and all things woo-woo is now nudging 200 years of age and apparently still going strong.
Author of probably the worst self development book ever written, ‘You Can Heal Your Life’ amongst many other books and founder of the Hay House dynasty that has delivered such luminaries as Dyer, Williamson, Chopra et al to the masses.
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Source: A Daring Adventure - March 13, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Source Type: blogs
The 12 Most Influential People In The History of Self Development
My list of the 12 Most Influential People In The History Of Self Development in no particular order. Don’t take it too seriously.
1. Louise Hay
The grand old lady of self development and all things woo-woo is now nudging 200 years of age and apparently still going strong.
Author of probably the worst self development book ever written, ‘You Can Heal Your Life’ amongst many other books and founder of the Hay House dynasty that has delivered such luminaries as Dyer, Williamson, Chopra et al to the masses.
It may be harder getting off Hay House’s mailing list than it is to get Donald Trump to make a sentence with...
Source: A Daring Adventure - March 13, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Source Type: blogs
A Million Jobs in Healthcare ’ s Future
By PRAVEEN SUTHRUM
“The Future is Here. It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed.”
It’s true.
Science fiction writer William Gibson said that right. We simply have to look around enough – now – to find out what the future holds.
The future may never be evenly distributed. But it’s surely becoming the present faster.
What would you do when…
Here are a series of what-would-you-do-when questions to think about. Each of these are a reality today, somewhere.
There’s more medical data than insight
Kaiser Permanente presently manages 30 petabytes of data. Images. Lab tests. EHRs. Pat...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 21, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Tech Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
