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My earliest memories are wrapped in the aroma of bacon! The smell permeated our house when I was a child growing up in the South in the ‘50’s. In addition to bacon for breakfast, we fried everything in the leftover grease, which we saved in jars. We fried chicken in bacon grease, pork chops, and potatoes and then made gravy from the drippings! So, looking back on that, it is astonishing to me that I wound up in the field of natural health. Some natural inclination or intuition led me down a healthier path, thank goodness—hypertension and strokes are common in areas where that kind of fat is eaten on a regular basis. Now it’s good fat like olive oil, flax seed oil and EFAs that predominate in my diet, along with lots of healthy vitamins and minerals.

The big payoff for me at this stage of my life—early 60’s—is that all of my annual tests come out normal. Not only that, when I am asked the typical question during my exam: “And what medications are you taking?” I can smile and say, “NONE.” Thanks to the path I’m on of keeping my body healthy with the help of Mother Nature, and thanks to the information I gather from interviewing leading authors and scientists in this field for iHealthTube.com, I’m in the fortunate position of being drug-free.

There are a growing number of books addressing Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) these days, suggesting that the condition is becoming more prevalent. And there are a variety of approaches for healing, or at least controlling, intestinal distress and discomfort.

For example, in “Overcoming IBS,” by Dr. Jonathan Berkowitz, the BRAT diet is presented. Easy enough to remember, it stands for Bananas, Rice, Apples and Toast. These fiber rich foods have been shown in studies to help those who suffer with...Read More »

In order to lose weight one must take in fewer calories than one burns. This diet theory has been around for a long, long time, and a Professor of Nutrition at Kansas State University, Mark Haub, recently put it to the test. He went on what he referred to as the Twinkie Diet for 10 weeks and lost a whopping 27 pounds!

As a veteran of many diets, I found going back to this basic premise a very intriguing experiment indeed. Haub’s “snack-centric” diet was meant to prove that weight loss can be...Read More »

Recently I found myself in the center of two diametrically opposed approaches to living. A dance of opposites boisterously played itself out before my eyes in a towering hotel in Las Vegas at the end of October.  I was in Las Vegas for the very serious and sober purpose of filming for iHealthTube.com at a huge natural health vitamins and health supplements convention.

For starters, it was very distracting to prepare for and concentrate upon the weightiness of my topics amidst the throngs...Read More »

Every day, in a myriad of ways, we are exposed to and inundated by EMFs—electromagnetic fields. In her new book, Zapped, best-selling natural health information author Ann Louise Gittleman draws our attention to all the electronic innovations that have made our lives so much more convenient but simultaneously surround us with what she calls invisible, toxic electro-pollution! And it’s not just the obvious things that come to mind like cell phones and computers. No; your toaster, coffee maker,...Read More »

As we know, histamine triggers an anti-inflammatory response in the body, an immune response to allergens and foreign pathogens—a good thing. However, if you get too much histamine production going on in the body then you wind up with all too familiar symptoms like:

• stuffy, runny nose
• irritated, watery eyes
• hives
• swelling
• itchiness
• headache

Interestingly enough, according to Dr. Janice Vickerstaff Joneja, author of “Dealing with Food Allergies,” many of us may be intolerant to histamine, and it could...Read More »

This was the promise of a weight-gain product that was on the market at the turn of the 20th century. The advertisement shows a round, shapely woman in a lovely Victorian gown fussing with her fluffy, upswept “Gibson Girl” hairdo, who appears to be pleased with her reflection in the mirror. Next to her stands a scrawny, emaciated looking female next to a lamp post—clearly bearing a strong resemblance to the lamp post. In fact, in another advertisement for this same weight-gain product the...Read More »

Oh no—not another obstacle to achieving any kind of normal weight! As if dieting weren’t hard enough already, chemical agents known as obesogens are now said to be thwarting those efforts, too. Here’s the latest theory: according to a White House report back in May of this year, there is a class of chemicals that are making Americans fat, as well as sabotaging the valiant efforts of dieters everywhere to lose weight. These chemicals are known for disrupting the endocrine system in our bodies...Read More »

“The End of Overeating – Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite” is a scathing exposé of the commercial food industry researched and written by Dr. David Kessler, the former head of the FDA. This is the same gentleman that went after the tobacco industry and who sought, and managed to get, nutrition labels on the food we purchase in supermarkets and elsewhere.

Concerned about America’s obesity epidemic, Kessler began to take an investigative look at “Big Food,” as he calls it. He...Read More »

Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing Janice Joneja, Ph.D, RD, for some health videos on iHealthTube.com regarding food allergies and histamine intolerance. Dr. Joneja is a nutritionist and the author of several books, one of which is “Dealing with Food Allergies.” Currently she is working on a book specifically dealing with histamine intolerance, which often gets confused with food allergies; a good example would be dairy.  Interestingly, Dr. Joneja says that people may be more than just...Read More »