Why is quinoa getting a free pass?
A day doesn’t pass that I don’t see some new “healthy” recipe for quinoa, or a dietitian or nutritionist gushing about the health benefits of this seed.
Many make the claim that quinoa is high in protein and is gluten-free. Clearly, the gluten-free movement is fueling some of this excitement over this seed. But how much truth are there in these claims? And just how healthy is quinoa as a replacement for grains?
Let’s tackle these claims one by one:
Quinoa is not a grain and is gluten-free
This is absolutely true. While all grains, or seeds of grasses, are members of the family Poaceae, quino...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 5, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle blood sugar carbohydrates carbs gluten-free quinoa Source Type: blogs
Curology questions – Salon conditioners and bar soap shampoo – episode 178
On today’s episode of The Beauty Brains we’re going to be answering your beauty questions about
The differences between salon and store bought deep conditionersWhether curology is better than going to a dermatologistAnd what are the pros and cons of using a bar soap form of shampoo and hair conditioner?
Beauty Science News
Here’s a story that was published in Elle about dangerous cosmetics.
You know it’s a truism in the media industry…if it bleeds it leads. Fear based news stories are preferred for news organization and stories about cosmetic products are included. Fear based news stories pre...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - April 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast curology salon conditioner solid shampoo Source Type: blogs
Curology questions – Salon conditioners and bar soap shampoo – episode 178
On today’s episode of The Beauty Brains we’re going to be answering your beauty questions about
The differences between salon and store bought deep conditionersWhether curology is better than going to a dermatologistAnd what are the pros and cons of using a bar soap form of shampoo and hair conditioner?
Beauty Science News
Here’s a story that was published in Elle about dangerous cosmetics.
You know it’s a truism in the media industry…if it bleeds it leads. Fear based news stories are preferred for news organization and stories about cosmetic products are included. Fear based news stories pre...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - April 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast curology salon conditioner solid shampoo Source Type: blogs
A practical guide to the Mediterranean diet
The Mediterranean diet has received much attention as a healthy way to eat, and with good reason. The Mediterranean diet has been shown to reduce risk of heart disease, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, certain cancers, depression, and in older adults, a decreased risk of frailty, along with better mental and physical function. In January, US News and World Report named it the “best diet overall” for the second year running.
What is the Mediterranean diet?
The traditional Mediterranean diet is based on foods available in countries that border the Mediterranean Sea. The foundation for this healthy diet includes
an abundanc...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 21, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine D. McManus, MS, RD, LDN Tags: Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly works . . . unless you make 1 of these 7 common mistakes!
Follow our discussions here and on the Wheat Belly Facebook page, and you will see that newbies make the same mistakes, over and over again. While all of these issues are discussed in the original Wheat Belly book, and even more extensively in Wheat Belly Total Health and Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox books, somehow they missed some crucial pieces of the message. So, to help you avoid such common mistakes that booby trap both health and your ability to lose weight, here is the list.
Don’t make these common mistakes:
Eat gluten-free foods–Gluten-free foods made with cornstarch, tapioca starch, potato flour, ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 17, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates autoimmune gluten-free grain-free Inflammation Weight Loss wheat belly Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
Going Mediterranean to prevent heart disease
There is a mountain of high-quality research supporting a Mediterranean-style diet as the best diet for our cardiovascular health. But what does this diet actually look like, why does it work, and how can we adopt it into our real lives?
What is a Mediterranean diet?
The Mediterranean diet is not a fad. It is a centuries-old approach to meals, traditional to the countries bordering on the Mediterranean Sea. The bulk of the diet consists of colorful fruits and vegetables, plus whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds, fish and seafood, with olive oil and perhaps a glass of red wine. There is no butter, no refined grains (like ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 16, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Food as medicine Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
Heart disease and breast cancer: Can women cut risk for both?
Very often I encounter women who are far more worried about breast cancer than they are about heart disease. But women have a greater risk of dying from heart disease than from all cancers combined. This is true for women of all races and ethnicities. Yet only about 50% of women realize that they are at greater risk from heart disease than from anything else.
Currently in the US, three million women are living with breast cancer, which causes one in 31 deaths. Almost 50 million women have cardiovascular disease, which encompasses heart disease and strokes and causes one in three deaths.
Here’s what’s really interestin...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 8, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Breast Cancer Exercise and Fitness Health Healthy Eating Heart Health Women's Health Source Type: blogs
ZERO tolerance for hypoglycemia
As more and more type 2 diabetics discover the Wheat Belly and other low-carb lifestyles, they are also discovering how rapidly and easily blood sugars drop.
As diabetics become less diabetic–a process that can occur VERY quickly, often within 24 hours of removing all wheat/grains from their diet–but they are taking insulin or certain diabetes drugs, there is potential for hypoglycemia or low blood sugar. Low blood sugar from diabetes drugs can be dangerous and should be avoided at all costs. (Imagine if a non-diabetic started administering insulin or blood sugar-reducing drugs–it would result in life-threate...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 23, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates blood sugar diabetes undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
It's No Use Crying Over Spelt Milk
We weren ’t kidding in the title to this post. There really is something calledspelt milk. There is also soy milk, rice milk, coconut milk, almond milk, hemp milk, quinoa milk, oat milk (that ’s not a typo – oat milk, not goat milk, although there is also goat milk of course), and pea milk (yes, really, pea milk). But now the cow milk producers are crying to the government (multiple branches, in many countries) that these non-dairy milks should not be allowed to use the term “milk. ” They claim this is about consumer confusion, but are any consumers confused about where soy milk comes from? Although recent pollin...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 19, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Simon Lester, Inu Manak Source Type: blogs
An ode to residency interview season
I woke this morning at 3:30 a.m. My mouth was dry. I tried to urinate, but something roughly the color of quinoa came out in small quantities. So I assumed I was dehydrated. It could have been the bourbon and scotch before dinner — or the two IPAs at dinner. Or the four IPAs after […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/grant-n-meeker" rel="tag" > Grant N. Meeker, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Residency Source Type: blogs
What is a plant-based diet and why should you try it?
Plant-based or plant-forward eating patterns focus on foods primarily from plants. This includes not only fruits and vegetables, but also nuts, seeds, oils, whole grains, legumes, and beans. It doesn’t mean that you are vegetarian or vegan and never eat meat or dairy. Rather, you are proportionately choosing more of your foods from plant sources.
Mediterranean and vegetarian diets
What is the evidence that plant-based eating patterns are healthy? Much nutrition research has examined plant-based eating patterns such as the Mediterranean diet and a vegetarian diet. The Mediterranean diet has a foundation of plant-based foo...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 26, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine D. McManus, MS, RD, LDN Tags: Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
Healthy lifestyle can prevent diabetes (and even reverse it)
The rate of type 2 diabetes is increasing around the world. Type 2 diabetes is a major cause of vision loss and blindness, kidney failure requiring dialysis, heart attacks, strokes, amputations, infections and even early death. Over 80% of people with prediabetes (that is, high blood sugars with the high risk for developing full-blown diabetes) don’t know it. Heck, one in four people who have full-blown diabetes don’t know they have it! Research suggests that a healthy lifestyle can prevent diabetes from occurring in the first place and even reverse its progress.
Can a healthy diet and lifestyle prevent diabetes?
The D...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 5, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Diabetes Diet and Weight Loss Food as medicine Healthy Eating Prevention Source Type: blogs
10 superfoods to boost a healthy diet
No single food — not even a superfood — can offer all the nutrition, health benefits, and energy we need to nourish ourselves. The 2015–2020 US Dietary Guidelines recommend healthy eating patterns, “combining healthy choices from across all food groups — while paying attention to calorie limits.”
Over the years, research has shown that healthy dietary patterns can reduce risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers. Dietary patterns such as the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet and the Mediterranean diet, which are mostly plant-based, have demonstrated significant ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 29, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine D. McManus, MS, RD, LDN Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Health Source Type: blogs
10 tricks to reduce salt (sodium) in your diet
The average adult eats about 3,400 milligrams (mg) of sodium per day — far more than the recommended daily goal of 2,300 mg. Here are the top 10 types of food that account for more than 40% of the sodium we eat each day, along with some ideas for simple swaps to help you eat less salt.
1. Breads and rolls
This category tops the list not because bread is especially salty (a slice contains about 100 to 200 mg of sodium), but because we eat so much of it.
Smart swaps: Instead of toast or a bagel for breakfast, have a bowl of oatmeal prepared with just a pinch of salt. Bypass the dinner breadbasket for a serving of whole gra...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 20, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Julie Corliss Tags: Health Healthy Eating Heart Health Hypertension and Stroke Source Type: blogs
“Easy” is the Secret to Family Meals: Five Tools I Use
It’s no secret. I’m a fan of family meals. Eating together as a family while sitting around a table (in front of a TV doesn’t count) has been shown to reduce the odds that kids will be overweight, enhance their school performance, brighten their mood and decrease risky behavior. The reasons for these seemingly magical results are partially due to better nutrition but are also influenced by the conversations that naturally happen when a family joins together around a meal.
When I encourage busy moms and dads to make mealtime a family affair, I often get the response, “We want to have family meals, but we just don’...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - July 10, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Family Dinner Family Meal Family Nutrition Source Type: blogs
