by AskDrPat | Diet, Functional Medicine, LifeStyle, Nutrition, Video
Comments: Excellent video with Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic...
by AskDrPat | Diet, General, LifeStyle, Nutrition
Used with permission from www.vitalchoice.com Gary Taubes is the bestselling author of Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat, and he covers the diet-health beat for The New York Times. While we don’t agree with everything he concludes about diets, we think...
by AskDrPat | Diet, Nutrition
Developed by Dr. Barry Sears, a researcher at the Boston University School of Medicine and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the zone diet is a diet plan that focuses on the ideal state of the body and the mind. This is a state of mind where the body will...
by AskDrPat | Alternative Medicine, General, Nutrition
Anyone who has suffered from allergies knows how miserable you can feel and how treatments can range from wildly effective to useless. To understand allergies a little better, it is helpful to think about them as an exaggerated immune response to normally harmless...
by AskDrPat | General, LifeStyle, Mind-body
“Wellness Coaching is about people improving their LifeStyle behaviors” Michael Arloski PhD says. He adds it is an alliance between a coach and a person 9or persons) who, through the benefit of that relationship, seek lasting, LifeStyle behavioral changes”. Taking a...
