Health

What is Autism?

What Is Autism?

What is autism? It depends. How can it depend? In Medicine, definitions change rapidly. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), “Autism spectrum disorder is a neurological and developmental disorder that affects how people interact with others, communicate, learn,…

Are Sugar Alcohols Unhealthy?

Are sugar alcohols unhealthy?

Are Sugar Alcohols Unhealthy? Sugar alcohols are carbohydrates. They are used in low-calorie products because they are sweet but have far fewer calories than sugar. Sugar has four calories per gram, while sugar alcohols have about a quarter of a…

Healthy Habits

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…

The Best Oils

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…

Check Your Medications

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?

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…

What‘s in Your Sweetener?

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…

Alcohol Is a Drug

Alcohol is a drug

Alcohol is a drug by any definition you want to use. How many times have you heard someone say, “Drugs or alcohol,” like “I don’t do drugs or alcohol?” That implies that alcohol is not a drug—that it is different…