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Processed Meat and Red Meat Linked to Increased Risk for Disease
A recent study of white, red, and processed meat involving half a million middle-aged participants showed processed and red meats were linked to increased total deaths, cancer deaths, and cardiovascular disease deaths (CVD) deaths. White meat appeared to protect against total [...]
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The Food and Drug Administration has been ordered by federal court to further investigate the damaging effects of wide spread use of antibiotics in animal feed on humans. Antibiotic abuse has caused alarming rates of antibiotic-resistant bacteria also known as super bugs.
Farming groups, drug makers, members of Congress and aggressive [...]
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Gluten and gluten-free diets have become more popular among people and now experts as well. Gluten is a protein that is found in wheat, barley, rye and is added to many processed foods. (1) It is a common contributing factor to weight gain, toxicity, inflammation and allergic reactions.
Gluten-free products are now considered big business with [...]
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This is a great restaurant-esque soup that you can pull together in a jiffy.
Ingredients:
4 medium-size dried mushrooms
1 tablespoon dry sherry
4 cups chicken broth (or turkey broth)
1/2 pound chicken breasts, skinned, boned, cut in matchstick pieces (or leftover turkey)
1/2 cup sliced bamboo shoots, cut in matchstick pieces
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
1 tablespoon Tamari sauce
2 tablespoon [...]
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By Dr. B.J. Hardick and Kimberly Roberto, Co-authors of The Maximized Living Nutrition Plans
It’s holiday time and you wanna have fun. This doesn’t just mean decorating Christmas trees and opening up presents. It also means enjoying the kind of foods that go with this time of year. Like ML Co-founder Dr. Ben Lerner [...]
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In the year 2010, 215,000 people younger than 20 years old had diabetes, 10.9 million adults over 65 had diabetes, and 1.9 million people were diagnosed with diabetes.
This is shocking. Considering that diabetes is a major cause of heart disease and stroke, and the seventh leading cause of death in the [...]
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In the US, antidepressants are the most commonly prescribed drug for adults age 20–59, and ADD and ADHD medications are the most commonly prescribed drug among adolescents. While doctors may insist that these are “mental” issues that must be managed permanently with prescription drugs, they are far more related to diet [...]
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This week at Life Essentials Health Center I held a special workshop to teach patients how to take their health to the next level through advanced nutrition and supplementation, two of the key essentials of living a Maximized Life. We had a great conversation about the Healing Plan, leptin resistance, nutrient density, antioxidants, proper pH [...]
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The HEALING FOODS diet is not just a diet; it’s a tool that will launch you into a total health transformation. This diet was designed to help anyone triumph over diseases like: Diabetes, Obesity, Heart Disease, Autism, Digestive disorders, Fatigue, Depression, Hormone imbalance, and Cancer prevention.
The diet [...]
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(*Makes about 8 servings)
2 pounds grass fed ground beef
1 free range organic egg
1 yellow onion, minced
2-4 cloves garlic, minced
1 pinch sea salt
A few cracks of fresh pepper
1/3 cup finely ground almonds (optional)
2 1/2 cup Healing Cuisine Barbecue Sauce
1. In a large bowl, combine beef, egg, onion, garlic, optional almonds, salt and pepper. Mix together with [...]
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Does your child classify as a picky eater? Does a typical meal consist mainly of carbohydrates? Does your child refuse to eat unless the meal consists of pizza, macaroni and cheese, chicken fingers, or some other “colorless” meal option that he or she feels comfortable with? Does your child struggle with different textures and flavors?
Many [...]
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As a general rule, we have been taught to be afraid of cholesterol, both in our food and in our bodies. However, more and more evidence is showing that cholesterol is actually unrelated to heart disease—while many cholesterol medications are being shown to worsen symptoms and even cause sudden death.
This is not to say that [...]
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How would you like to do one thing that will drastically improve your digestive
health for the following benefits:
• increased immune function
• increased mental clarity
• increased energy
• improved mood
While improving your diet in general and getting enough exercise will do wonders
for digestion, a key element to digestive health is frequently overlooked: fermented
foods. That may sound like [...]
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If you were at the Maximized Living seminar this last weekend, you received lots of great resources for recipes to help you improve nutrition, one of the 5 Essentials. However, for everyone who reads this blog, I wanted to provide some options for maximized nutrition that you can apply to your meal planning and grocery [...]
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We’re about to embark on our second Maximized Living journey of 2011! February’s Makeover was so life transforming that I’m offering another opportunity for people to make small changes with big results. Maximized Living begins with a mindset that allows you to look differently at your life and what is possible. You don’t have to [...]
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I’d like you to consider this scenario. You go to your doctor for a yearly checkup, and she tells you that they have just discovered that the wind can cause cancer if you are exposed to too much of it. She recommends that if you don’t keep your skin covered or [...]
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Enjoy one of my favorite recipe this week! This easy Chicken Bryan is easy to make, and super tasty!
4 Tablespoons grapeseed oil
2 pounds organic chicken breasts
1 lemon sliced
1/2 cup organic or raw butter
1/2 tsp salt
6 cloves garlic minced
2 cups mushrooms
2 cups sundried tomatoes
1/2 cup goat cheese
1 tbsp basil
Heat oil on skillet over medium. Add chicken [...]
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Everybody has to eat. No matter what your ethnicity, genetics, or medical condition, food is essential to your survival. And yet, sometimes it can seem impossible to choose what to eat. Governmental guidelines about what to eat are changing constantly. Medial studies indicate the controversy over genetically modified (GM) foods. Advertising encourages us to buy [...]
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If you are struggling through life or with serious or chronic health concerns, we have a health transformation Makeover for you. It is a healing Makeover. If you want to prevent serious and chronic health concerns in your future, this Makeover is for you. It is an empowerment Makeover. If you’re low on energy and [...]
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As we move into winter and the holiday season, fresh fruits and vegetables begin to disappear from our daily menus. Many of these foods are no longer in season, and they don’t commonly make appearances among holiday fare, which is often loaded with sugar and chemically altered ingredients.
Being aware of this [...]
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As the holidays are upon us, it’s probably tempting to choose low-fat dairy products, sugar-free desserts, and “reduced calorie” options for fear of holiday weight gain. I get asked a lot about low-fat, fat-free, and sugar-free foods and if they are a healthy option for losing weight and keeping it off, [...]
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What if I told you there was a particular food group, which has been mislabeled as unhealthy, that is delicious, satisfying, and helps you get rid of excess pounds? Would you be interested in trying it out?
No one food can make us healthy by itself. But high quality saturated fat [...]
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Do your kids (or even the grownups in your house) love vegetables? Do they go for color—tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash, lettuce—or do they prefer white—macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, pasta—until it comes to colorful candy wrappers?
The idea that children don’t like healthy food is perpetuated by a sad truth: many [...]
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Milk is considered by many a healthy food. Milk has in essence replaced water in the UDSA food pyramid, which urges Americans to have three cups every day. We’re urged to drink milk like it’s water mainly because of the benefit of calcium. But when health experts say that you need calcium [...]
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Recently I congratulated America on making recent changes to improve our health and that of the planet: winning the war against Big Tobacco and implementing reusable grocery bags. I have more good news! Americans are consuming less corn syrup than we have in 20 years! Congratulations are in order.
However, this isn’t [...]
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Cabbage-chino
1 ½ cups organic almond milk
1 wedge cabbage
2 oz raw cane sugar
1 tbs raw cacao powder
1 tsp organic pure vanilla extract
1 tsp Caffix crystals (coffee substitute)
1-2 cups of ice
Add all ingredients into blender or vitamix. Mix and Enjoy.
Spicy Tacos
1 ½ cup organic walnuts
1 ½ tsp cumin
¾ tsp coriander
4 tsp Braggs Liquid Aminos
Dash of cayenne pepper
Add [...]
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25 Ideas for Packing School Lunches
It’s getting to be that time of year again–the time that kids dread and parents tend to love. It’s time to head back to school!
You’ve bought new school clothes, notebooks, pencils, even a new backpack (check www.backpacksafety.com) for tips on preventing long-term injury to the spine from backpacks). But [...]
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Too Much Information:
To Be Healthy, or Not to Be Healthy
We live in a society that bombards us with all kinds of ideas about health. Television commercials encourage us to ask our doctors about the latest prescription medication to relieve our depression, insomnia, acid reflux, or cholesterol. Fast food companies tell us to eat their low-calorie [...]
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Really enjoyed our patient appreciation day last week, and were able to collect great donations to our food drive with East Cooper Community Outreach. You all did so great at teaming up with us to give back to the community! Thanks again! We were also able to reach out and change so many lives through [...]
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