Fiber is one of the most important substances that we do not eat enough of; lab results never tell you if you have enough, too much, or not enough. So what is it and what’s it for? Think of fiber as a ‘Transport System’, sort of like a big ol’ train that is transporting the […]

Driving is so routine.  It’s so routine that we rarely look at our surroundings; some of us live in so much concrete that we can not even see nature.  Can we survive without nature, can we survive in concrete jungles?  What are we doing?  To be or not to be, that is the question. Can […]

“Where do you get your protein?” The 2019 answer is: “Oh, you bring up a great question; I wondered about that and then found out that being Vegan (and/or Plant Based) is the most effective and efficient protein I can get. You see, plant protein is real and natural while the protein you get from […]

  The most malnourished country in the world is the United States.  The number one Cause of Death (COD) in the United States is Heart Disease and the number one cause of Heart Disease (in the United States) is Malnutrition.   Our chronic diseases, which make up 75% or more of our health care dollars, are […]

Live Long and Prosper!  Was Spock a Vegan?  How can we live long?   The Okinawans (a Japanese Island) lived for a long time; many times reaching 100 years of age or longer. Well, being on an island they probably ate lots of fish….but did they?….let’s take a look. If you look at the traditional diets of […]

Vegan Public Health 101……What would happen if you stopped an entire country from eating all animal products? Could that ever occur? It did and take a look at the results. During WWII, Norway was occupied by the Nazis from 1939 thru 1945. During the occupation the Nazis removed all animal livestock; the native population subsisted […]

     “Trust me, I’m a Doctor”.  Words that were spoken in the past; today, not so much.   Trust in doctors has eroded; a 2014 study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that only 34 percent of Americans have great confidence in the leaders of the medical profession. Everything has changed……The global burden of […]

Prostate Cancer; it is the 2nd largest cause of death in men (lung cancer is number 1). African American men have the highest incidence of prostate cancer; they are 60 percent more likely to develop the disease and more than twice as likely to die from it compared to Caucasian men. Some studies reveal that […]

          Recently an advertisement popped up on the internet with the lead, “Fast Food Just Got Faster”.  The ad was promoting two ‘faster’ ways to get you way over the top with your fat, salt, and sugar needs;  1.  the ‘pick up and deliver’ groups such as Uber Eats, etc., and 2.  […]

     Why do we like sugar so much?  From an evolutionary perspective we know that the human species (homo/mankind) had to survive on the food that was available.  We are well aware that food is the substance that keeps us alive by supplying the energy for survival.  And in those pre-human days, our primitive […]