The ABCs of your post-grain experience
Wheat/grain elimination is an exceptionally powerful tool for restoring health, reducing inflammation, returning metabolic distortions such as high blood sugar and blood pressure back to normal, and for losing weight. But many of the adverse health effects of years of grain consumption do not fully reverse with their elimination. Specific efforts may therefore need to be undertaken to accelerate your return to full health. Taking these extra steps stacks the odds heavily in your favor that you will enjoy full recovery from abnormal health conditions.
Among the strategies to consider are:
Cultivate and nourish healthy bowel...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 28, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora fish oil iodine probiotics resistant starch Thyroid vitamin D Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly meals and flours for baking
So you kiss all things wheat and grains goodbye. And you’ve come to learn that gluten-free foods made with replacement flours like cornstarch, tapioca starch, potato flour, and rice starch are also very destructive, since they make visceral fat grow, send blood sugar through the roof, and contribute to diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, and dementia. (If these gluten-free food manufacturers persist in pushing gluten-free foods made with these awful ingredients, I’m going to have to write a new book: “Gluten-Free . . . Fat, and Diabetic“!)
But perhaps you’d sure like a few muffins o...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 13, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle baking cakes cupcakes gluten grain-free baking grains muffins scones Source Type: blogs
How NOT to have diabetes
If you want type 2 diabetes , follow conventional advice to cut fat and eat more “healthy whole grains.” (This is also true for type 1 diabetes in susceptible individuals with pancreatic beta cell autoimmunity triggered by wheat gliadin or corn zein.)
But what if you don’t want to follow the footsteps of the two thirds of Americans and Canadians who are now diabetic or pre-diabetic? What if you don’t want the expense and side-effects of oral drugs and insulin–one of the most powerful weight gain drugs around? What if you don’t want to lose your eyesight, develop cardiovascular disease, ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 8, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle blood sugar bowel flora diabetes gluten-free low-carb resistant starch vitamin D Source Type: blogs
Healthcare data in Massachusetts: Interview with CHIA’s Áron Boros
https://healthbb.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/hbdew0024-david-e-williams-interviews-chia-ed-aron-boros.mp3
Áron Boros, CHIA Executive Director
Massachusetts needs reliable, detailed, and accessible healthcare data to make health reform a success. The Center for Health Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) provides data and reports that are used by health systems, health plans, researchers and other government agencies. Popular resources include the all-payer claims database, acute hospital case mix databases, and hospital financial performance reports. This information has become increasingly valuable to the industry an...
Source: Health Business Blog - November 18, 2014 Category: Health Managers Authors: dewe67 Tags: Podcast Policy and politics CHIA Massachusetts Source Type: blogs
Foods and Snacks to Keep Your Cool
It’s the ‘dog days’ of summer and the heat can really take a toll on our willingness to cook hot meals. Watch my recent appearance on Let’s Talk Live DC as I show some of my favorite foods and snacks that are nice and cool and you don’t have to turn on the oven to enjoy them!
Read on for some fresh and flavorful foods and snack ideas to help keep your cool in this hot and humid summer weather.
Go Tart
Go tart – tart cherries that is! Tart cherries have been found in research to help ease muscle pain and improve sleep quality and they happen to be a great ingredient in some cold food recipes. We...
Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - August 8, 2014 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: cooking eating healthy food recipes vegetables chilled soups fritolay frozen desserts granola healthy convenience foods homemade popsicle recipes KIND protein snack dips summer snacks tart cherries Source Type: blogs
Maybe the AG could help
Bruce Mohl at Commonwealth Magazine reports:Steward Health Care is refusing to turn over to state officials its audited financial statements, setting off a behind-the-scenes tug of war that could lead to fines being assessed on the for-profit company. Steward, which is owned by the New York private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, is notoriously tight-lipped about its finances. The only reliable source of information on the company's overall performance and its financial relationship with Cerberus has been its audited statements. For the past two years, Steward filed the statements with st...
Source: Running a hospital - August 8, 2014 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Doctors needed for medical mission trip 2014
Message from Nathanael Lee
Good afternoon. I am Nathanael Lee, a second year medical student from Perdana University, Malaysia. I am writing this message on behalf of the Malaysian Medical Fellowship (MMF). Every year, the MMF sends teams of medical students headed by doctors to various destinations in Southeast and South Asia to run mobile medical clinics and increase health awareness among the underprivileged.
The MMF is actually a non-profit organization that was founded and run by medical students who work closely with local organizations in order to carry out the MMF’s annual mission work.
This year the Malaysi...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - July 29, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Guest India Mission Source Type: blogs
Transcript of podcast interview with Martha Coakley, Attorney General and candidate for Governor of Massachusetts
This is the transcript of my recent podcast interview with Martha Coakley, Attorney General and Democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts. Visit the original post to listen to the podcast and read a summary. This is part of a series of interviews with all nine candidates for Governor. The full schedule is available here.
David E. Williams: This is David Williams from the Health Business Blog. I’m speaking today with Martha Coakley, Attorney General of Massachusetts and candidate for Governor.
Martha, does Chapter 224 represent the right approach to addressing rising healthcare costs? And if not, where doe...
Source: Health Business Blog - March 6, 2014 Category: Health Managers Authors: David Williams Tags: Podcast Policy and politics election Governor health care health care reform health information technology healthcare Martha Coakley Massachusetts Source Type: blogs
Give Chia Seeds a Try
I think a lot of people associate chia seeds with Chia Pets, but they can also be eaten. They're health benefits are probably similar to whole grains, but they also ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Nutrition)
Source: About.com Nutrition - November 2, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Source Type: blogs
Easy Ways to Increase Healthy Omega-3s in Your Child’s Diet
When MsGreene was pregnant with my youngest in 1995, she craved tuna sandwiches. She could tell you where there was a good one within a mile of just about anywhere we normally visited.
Later studies were release showing tuna, and many other ocean fish, may contain mercury and PCBs. She was horrified at what she might have done to our son. For years she lamented, “I was just responding to what my body craved because my body knew it needed omega-3 rich food to build my baby’s brain.”
If you are like her, you’re probably looking for healthy ways to feed your unborn baby, children, and yourself omega-3...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - November 1, 2013 Category: Pediatricians Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Healthy Family Eating Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Steph: “Wheat is not worth it”
I asked Wheat Belly follower and success story, Steph, to share some of her wheat-free experience:
WB: What prompted you to eliminate wheat?
Steph: I had tried a “controlled carb” diet years ago and had some success. Of course, still eating carbs and wheat, it was pretty impossible to stay with this type of eating, especially since eating wheat just makes me lust for more carbs! Once I got interested in what Wheat Belly had to say about how eating wheat makes us want MORE, I had to read the whole thing. Once I did, I thought that the easiest way for me to see for myself was to try it. I went cold turkey on Jul...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 14, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat-elimination success stories Source Type: blogs
The Healthful Vegan Diet
‘Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.’ ~Hippocrates
By Leo Babauta
Eat plants. Those two words are the best things I’ve learned about diet, and if you stick to that, you’re likely be pretty healthy.
That said, eating a vegan diet (no animal products) doesn’t necessarily equate to a healthy diet, despite what many believe.
Yes, vegans on average are healthier and leaner than the average person. But that’s an average — there are unhealthy vegans.
How is that possible? You can eat lots of sweets, fried foods, processed foods, foods with white flour (br...
Source: Zen Habits - July 25, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: zenhabits Tags: Health & Fitness Source Type: blogs
Chia Seeds: Not Just Used in Sprouting Hair Anymore
Nutritious Chia seeds are in stores now to eat! Read this for ten ways I use them.Contributor: Freida ThomasPublished: Jul 14, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - July 15, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
Give Chia Seeds a Try
I think a lot of people associate chia seeds with Chia Pets, but they can also be eaten. They're health benefits are probably similar to whole grains, but they also ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Nutrition)
Source: About.com Nutrition - July 2, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Source Type: blogs
What price is correct for transparency?
As noted previously, the Massachusetts legislature has entrusted the handling of the all-payer claims database (APCD) to a new independent state agency, CHIA (Center for Health Information and Analysis) which has issued proposed regulations concerning the availability of the data. Among the issues CHIA had to decide was what fee, if any, to charge for access to the data and the terms under which someone can request a waiver. Those regulations are here. Here is an excerpt:The proposed fees reflect the cost of systems analysis, program development, computer production, vendors’ fees, consulting services and oth...
Source: Running a hospital - May 26, 2013 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
