Cure Your Diabetes, Go To Jail

I want to share a scary news story with you that only a few people have heard about. Whether you’re familiar with it or not, I urge you to read through to the end, because there’s something we all can — and must — do to change the finale. This is a real story, even though it sounds too bizarre and incredible to be true… Imagine you’ve been feeling sick for a week — and you finally...

Is This Really Why We’re Overweight?

The anti-obesity establishment has decided to pull out all the stops in the battle against America’s obesity crisis. Anti-fat’s top three heavyweight organizations — the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) — have just joined together to produce an HBO special, entitled The Weight of the Nation, which begins...

How Can I Serve You Better?

My mission here is to help you improve your health and fitness — and encourage you to become your best possible self. To serve you better, I’d love to know how satisfied you are with the health information you’re receiving from me — and to receive any suggestions you may have for how I can improve my service to you. In other words, I need your help. Would you please take a few minutes to share your...

Dick Clark’s Diabetes Secret

Like most of the country, I was saddened last week to learn that Dick Clark had died suddenly from a massive heart attack. The news triggered a flurry of memories in me, harkening back to my pre-teen years when I used to hurry home from school to catch American Bandstand on TV. There, in the privacy of my latchkey home, I practiced the latest dance steps in front of our Zenith console, memorized the words to the top 10...

Poor Sleep Can Give You Diabetes

Being a night owl can do more than make you yawn through morning meetings and reach for another jolt of caffeine in the afternoon. A new study shows that that regularly shorting yourself on sleep can put you at serious risk for developing Type 2 diabetes. Here’s why… Going to bed too late or tossing turning all night can throw your body chemistry so out of whack that it cause your blood sugar to spike to unhealthy...

How To Conquer Sugar Addiction

If you’re looking for a reason to feel hopeful about the future, here it is. Sugar has finally been outed as the secret killer in the modern American diet. This surely is no “secret” to you — but mainstream America (doctors included) just the got the word on primetime TV via 60 Minutes. In a scathing expose, the show’s medical investigator, Dr. Sanjay Gupta called sugar “toxic” and accused it of being the...

The Truth About Bariatric Surgery For Diabetes

The big story last week from the New England Journal of Medicine is that doctors now believe gastric bypass surgery can “cure” Type 2 diabetes. Two separate studies reported that the surgery was “more effective than the standard drug treatment” in obese and overweight diabetics. This apparent breakthrough was heralded without a dissenting voice on the TV networks and major newspapers. But considering that current drug...

Please Get Tested For Diabetes Now

In case you missed it, Tuesday was Diabetes Awareness Day sponsored by the American Diabetes Association (ADA). When I first saw this news, I assumed the ADA was offering free blood tests to the public through some of their “partners” such as the Walgreens chain of pharmacies. I was impressed — because it’s estimated that 80 million Americans live with undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes and prediabetes. Free...

Will Red Meat Really Kill You?

Two news stories that made the rounds last week may give you pause before slicing into another steak or biting your next burger. The first one was the Red Meat Consumption and Mortality study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The study found that red meat consumption is associated with a 20% increased risk of death from heart disease, cancer, and all-cause mortality. Vegans and vegetarians are having a field...

Conventional Milk Linked To Cancer

Wipe that milk mustache off your upper lip and lend an ear… In the past, numerous studies have connected conventional milk and dairy products to a higher risk of developing cancers of the breast, prostate, and testicles. Now, Harvard researcher, Dr.Ganmaa Davaasambuu, M.D., Ph.D. and her colleagues have confirmed this troubling cancer risk in the supermarket dairy case. Got milk? Get cancer. While doubts about the...

How Statin Drugs Cause Diabetes

Since the passing of beloved Monkees singer Davy Jones, who died of a massive heart attack on February 29th, heart disease seems to be on everyone’s mind. Although he was only 66, his passing makes us realize that this is the average age when men get hit with their first heart attack — and half of these are fatal. (The average age for women is 70.) Heart Disease: Still our Number One killer Heart disease is...

Doctor Reverses Alzheimer’s With Coconut Oil

Following on the heels of our story describing how Dr. Terry Wahls reversed her MS with a healing diet comes this remarkable account of how Dr. Mary Newport is reversing her husband’s Alzheimer’s simply by adding coconut oil to his diet. Please click on the screen below to watch this brief video. It will not only blow your mind, but just might save it as well… Coconut oil preserves your brain — and...