I’m guessing September 8th is a little late for suggesting a book for summer reading. “Good guess,” you say, since there’re only 14 days left before Wednesday, September 23, 2015 (Autumnal Equinox 2015). If you’ve been reading this blog for years, you know this is an exciting time of year for me and I’m usually […]

The PREDIMED study out of Barcelona Spain has shown substantial benefits including reduced risk of stroke for those on a plant-based Mediterranean diet. The data from any ambitious study can be investigated further, and built upon with additional new studies. This has happened, and the additional analyses have shown important additional benefits for our thinking […]

If you harbor any feelings that eating largely plant-based foods is something for vegans and vegetarians, I hope you’ll take a few minutes from your busy life and read an article published on November 7, 2014, in the Washington Post by four interesting writers (Mark Bittman, Michael Pollan, Ricardo Salvador and Olivier De Schutter). I […]

Last week I wrote about the Mediterranean Diet (MD) and the DASH Diet (DD), both healthy eating styles. The day after putting that article up, I stumbled upon an article published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, about the new MIND diet. The authors of MIND hope it will prove to […]

The Mediterranean DASH, it sounds like some kind of a race or a dance. Right? But, of course, I’m writing about eating styles. What I’m addressing today is the question in many persons’ minds; which way should I go to eat in a healthy way? I’ve written quite a bit about the Mediterranean-style of eating, […]

Let me ‘cut to the chase.’ The British Medical Journal published a study on January 22, 2015 presenting an argument that statins save fewer lives than simple lifestyle changes like exercising and eating sensibly. Yes, I know that many people don’t want to be bothered by changing their eating, smoking or exercising habits. It’s no […]

I’m attributing my pumpkin enthusiasm to this cool autumn day and the color splashed in every direction that I gaze. Somehow bright orange pumpkins got inseparably united in my brain with the glory of autumn. Since I moved to the mountain west from my native southern California, autumn has become a big deal. I’ve only […]

It’s not news that the Mediterranean-Style of Eating is linked with a lowered risk of heart disease and likely other health problems (like cancer, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases). But even though it is not news, there remains plenty of confusion. What is NOT a Mediterranean-Style of Eating? Regular white flour pizza, with cheese and sausage […]

Have you seen the pageant-like procession of claims, that supplements and processed foods with certain additives can prevent cognitive impairment? Or have you heard any of the FTC’s precedent-setting crack down on those inflated claims? What are we supposed to believe? Can we do anything to decrease our risk of cognitive decline? I’ll admit right […]

Many people still go on diets; often the diet involves eating a certain way that leaves the victims of the diet fad uncomfortably hungry, or they just don’t like the food, or very often they can hardly wait to eat some certain food that is not in the diet. Popular diets are often designed to […]