Calcium Doesn’t Prevent Osteoporosis and Improve Bone Health. Find Out What Does
Background Even if you’re not interested in bone health, I encourage you to read this entire article since it outlines a fatal conceptual flaw that physicians, scientists, nutritionists and the rest of the public keep getting sucked into which influences their health and nutrition decisions in a…
October 10, 2015
Coconut Oil: A Scientific Review and Our Clinical Insights On Its Use
We get flooded with questions about coconut oil in the clinic. Many folks have been raised to think coconut oil is the central culprit in the cast of dietary characters responsible for heart disease and chronic disease. Used sensibly, coconut oil can be a powerfully effective nutritional tool in…
September 15, 2015
Are Your Batteries Low? It’s Time to Recharge with My Free E-book on Fatigue!
Get Your Energy Back! I was recently in the UK on sabbatical, working on my 2nd book when I received an e-mail from a patient that made me completely shift from writing my 2nd book to producing a free e-book. An excerpt is below and I did change a few specifics, to keep it anonymous, including the…
August 31, 2015
Where’s Your Body Fat? A Look at Body Shapes and Health Risks Across Different Ethnic Groups-Indians, Asians, Caucasians, etc.
Background The global obesity crisis has traditionally been focused on body weight and body mass index (aka BMI) rather than body shape and composition. Weight and BMI are blunt tools that can identify more obvious health risks, but unfortunately they miss the more subtle manifestations of…
August 18, 2015
Can Good Nutrition Halt Cancer Growth?
The following post is written by Prerna Uppal, MS, RD, CDE Background on Cancer My passion for wellness and disease prevention always inspired me to look for ways to live well, not just physically, but emotionally, mentally and spiritually too. This desire to understand how we must use a holistic…
August 8, 2015
Protecting Your Children From the Dangers of Lead Poisoning
The following article is written by pediatrician, Dr. Shally Sinha and exposes the dangers of lead poisoning. Maggi Noodles and Lead Poisoning Cases in My Clinic You’ve probably heard that Maggi noodles, a staple food in nearly every Indian household, was recently found to contain lead. Many…
July 21, 2015
Watch My TEDx on Prescription Apps and Join Our Bay Area Meetup Group
My TEDx on Prescription Apps Sorry it took so long for me to post this. My first TEDx was a non-broadcast event (not online) back in 2013, in front of a bunch of execs and movers and shakers in the community, held at the Silicon Valley Capital Club in San Jose. This time around I had a different…
July 15, 2015
Does Heat and Sauna Use Help Burn Body Fat and Improve Health?
Introduction Many of us have ancestral roots from a tropical or subtropical region of the world, where sweating outdoors was a natural way of life. Now, due to modern life, we work indoors and even work out in temperature-controlled gyms. Our bodies have actually become more heat intolerant and…
July 11, 2015
Why “Nothing” is My Favorite Meal of the Day-A Look at Intermittent Fasting
Intro to the Author and My Favorite Meal I’ve had some really talented and highly qualified writers reach out to me with requests to write for my blog. I’m a bit of a blog control freak but realize it is incredibly important for me to share the experiences of a diverse group of individuals so you…
July 6, 2015
Healthy Plane and Travel Tips
Before I launch into this topic, I wanted to introduce someone who is a key part of my clinical team and the work I do. It took me a while to find the right dietician to work with, but finally Prerna Uppal has been the one I’ve been searching for. She has decades of experience as a registered…
June 27, 2015