Category: Nutrition And Illness

Vitamin C and CORONAVIRUS – China is Using it!

Vitamin C is an essential vitamin, meaning your body can’t produce it. It’s an antioxidant and confers the following benefits (among many others): 1. Helps maintain your skin, bones, and connective tissue 2. Promotes wound healing 3. Helps with high blood pressure 4....Read More

The Case of the Nutritional Depression

Recently a patient of mine came to me and she was furious! She said ” my daughter has just been told that she has a ‘chemical depression’ by a doctor who didn’t even test her brain chemicals.” I said I agreed with her. The doctor was making a supposition that...Read More

Remember to Eat Mushrooms!

I make spaghetti sauce loaded with mushrooms and I make mushrooms roasted with garlic, butter, and thyme served over wild rice, yumm!But here’s something even better than the taste.  A study in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and reported in the Times on March 20,...Read More

Is Breakfast Important?

An article in the Times Magazine this past weekend implied that eating breakfast was optional and carried no health benefits in several recent studies in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition, August 2014 issue. It stated that there was little evidence that eating...Read More