Healthy Habits
Only indulge in healthy habits. Despite what many people claim, there are many healthy foods that are delicious. I mention in my book, The Three Rules to Lose Weight and Keep It Off Forever, that you should avoid voids that…
Health, Wellness, and Decision-Making
Health, Wellness, and Decision-Making
The Second Edition of The Three Rules to Lose Weight and Keep It Off Forever is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Apple Books.
Harold
The Benefits of Flaxseed Oil
The Benefits of Flaxseed Oil are its effects on cholesterol. Flax has been cultivated for centuries for its strong fibers and its oil. I used the oil as a kid to work in my baseball glove. When it is consumed,…
The Best Oils
The best oils are the ones that you make healthy meals with. If you keep up with the news, you’ve read about the debate about seed oils. Some people claim that seed oils are unhealthy, even poisons, because they may…
Vaccines Are Important
Vaccines Are Important. As with only drinking pasteurized milk, there used to be much less controversy surrounding vaccines. Vaccines save lives. Now, people imagine conspiracies behind any public policy. The government recommends pasteurization of milk, it must harm us in…
Drink Only Pasteurized Milk
Drink Only Pasteurized Milk: A sentence I thought I would never need to write. One of the most important improvements in the health of Americans (and anyone else) is the pasteurization of milk. Before about 1900, milk was frequently contaminated…
Avoid Gaining Weight When Traveling
There is only one simple way to avoid gaining weight when traveling. If you never gain weight when you travel, you would not be reading this post. Most people decide to eat whatever they want when they travel, and when…
Check Your Medications
Why should you check your medications? Yesterday, I went to Costco and picked up a new dose of a medication I’ve been on for a few months. It looked completely different than the lower dose. The old dose was yellow…
What Are Healthy Foods?
It is a simple question. What are healthy foods? This is actually an impossible question to answer. I can name foods I consider healthy, but other people may call them unhealthy. There are two big problems with answering which foods…
Nutritional Studies are Hard
Nutritional studies are hard to understand and often controversial. You can read an article that seems to say eggs are healthy, and you read another saying they kill you. That happens all the time. For the last week or two,…
What‘s in Your Sweetener?
Do you know what’s in your sweetener? I bet you don’t I have written about sweeteners before. I like to divide sweeteners into sugar-based or non-nutritive ones. Unless you are fit and have a low risk of diabetes, I strongly…
