The Minneapolis based non-profit Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) published a recent study. David Wallinga MD, Director of the Food & Health Program, conducted tests on 55 different products that listed HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) as their first or second ingredient, “Overall we found detectable levels of mercury in 17 of 55 […]
Social Media: Are Your Children At Risk?
There was a case study by Frank, et al, of Western Resource School of Medicine presented at the American Public Health Association’s 138th annual meeting in Denver 2010: It was found that teens who spent more than 3 hours a day on social networking websites were predisposed to the following greater than their peers who […]
Your Heart Matters!
Recent research at the Heart Math Institute has revealed a gap in our current understanding about how our bodies and minds work. With studies of the heart and brain being monitored at the same time, it was noticed that the heart registers response to stimulus before the brain. In fact it now appears that the […]
Here’s Your Sign!
People often come in my office and report “Doc I’m stressed out!” Listening with compassion I often respond, there’s no such thing as “stressed out”, in reality it is truly “what are you resisting in your life.” Whats the lesson of the moment that I am just not getting? For if I don’t get the […]