Health is most effectively promoted by healthful living.
Dr. Alan Goldhamer
June 2020
A Global
Health Crisis
Globally, there are 2 billion people who are considered either overweight or obese, and 40 million children under the age of five are overweight. For the first time in human history we now have more individuals that are overfed versus underfed on our planet. What happened?
September 2020
Sleep -
The Forgotten Remedy
Our natural guidance system that ensures the optimal amount of rest we need every day has been overridden by modern inventions such as artificial light, and blue light emitting screens of all shapes and sizes. Fortunately, more and more people are becoming aware of the great benefits that a good night’s sleep can provide.
September 2020
5 Key Strategies to Eating Healthy
We are increasingly finding ourselves in an environment where it is more and more difficult to make healthy food decisions. A key strategy to healthy eating is to make health promoting food choices as convenient as possible. By organizing your life in ways that make healthier food choices easy, and unhealthy food choices more difficult, you can improve your health considerably.
June 2020
What is a Whole Food Plant-based Diet
The best way to describe a Whole Food Plant Based (WFPB) diet is to understand it in the context of other broad lifestyle diets. The first thing that needs to be made clear is that even though a WFPB diet is called a diet, it is in fact a lifestyle.
September 2020
Transitioning to
a WFPB Diet
The benefits of adopting the whole food plant-based (WFPB) lifestyle are irrefutable. The consumption of foods as grown in nature, that are nutrient dense, but calorically sparse, is the optimal diet for human health and vitality. Here are a few tips for implementing this lifestyle.
October 2020
The Disease of Kings
The availability of inexpensive rich foods is now on offer to most people in modern society, and this has created a proliferation of the “Diseases of Kings,” that was reserved for only the privileged in the past. In present day any individual with $7 can purchase 1200 - 2000 calories of poor-quality nutrition on many street corners in major cities.
September 2020
The Protein Myth
When considering the switch to a 100% Whole Food Plant-based (WFPB) diet, a diet void of any animal products, one is often met with the concern of family and friends regarding their impending protein deficiency. Their concern is misplaced. The truth is, protein is abundant in plant foods, and our bodies are in desperate need of more of these health promoting foods.
November 2020
The Whole Story
on Whole Grains
The nutritional difference between an intact whole grain and a processed grain is monumental, I would go so far as to say that they are different foods that behave differently in our body, the former a fiber and nutrient rich powerhouse of sustained energy, the latter a simple carbohydrate that offers sparse nutritional value in an energy source that acts like simple sugar in our body.