Archive for April, 2011
Additional Factors Identified in Parkinson’s Disease
Recently diet and lifestyle factors have been identified as possible contributing factors to the development of Parkinson’s Disease. For many years Parkinson’s Disease and Parkinsonian like disorders were considered to be primarily of hereditary origin, and we may have thought we were “destined” to follow in our family’s foot-steps. However, like many other recent findings [...]
Baby Carrots – True and False Information
I often have clients asking me about “baby carrots”….
The concern with which they ask me about these “devil” vegetables prompted me to look into the claims that they are from (A) deformed, larger carrots, and (B) that they are marinated in chlorine – the known carcinogen – and that when they have been in the [...]
Food Coloring
For many years I have warned about the less than innocuous coloring in foods – even in “so-called” healthy foods:
Gatorade and fruit flavored yogurts
Think – irritability, hyperactivity, depression, anger…. Many are also considered carcinogens (possible cancer causing agents)
Many colors are allowed in the U.S., yet banned in most European nations and Canada. Do they know
something [...]
April – Stress Awareness Month
This is taken from my submission to our local newspaper.
As ski season comes to an end many of you might be able to let out a sigh of relief, only to come back in a few weeks for a busy summer season. “Stress Awareness?”, you might exclaim, “I could be the poster child for stress [...]