What does it say about our society and food supply when the closure of a single “nutrition” plant can lead to a crisis that has a direct impact on the health of the most innocent among us? I’m not going to stir a debate about the cause of the baby formula shortage and how a […]

When I was in undergraduate school, I took a class called Nutrition Ecology. It talked about the ecosystem in which food is manufactured and how the environment moves various pesticides, pollutants, and toxins into our food supply.  Required reading for the course included “Silent Spring,” a book by Rachel Carson. Carson discussed how the use […]

In the previous post, I discussed the real reasons for the opioid epidemic in our country. A letter was published in a highly respected medical journal that discussed flawed research about the risk of addiction when using prescription opioids for pain management. This led to several other similarly flawed studies. Of course, big pharma capitalized […]

It happened again in Washington. After spending seven years pointing fingers and the past few weeks trying to craft legislation that would appease various political factions, our elected officials failed in their attempt at “health care reform.” That’s in quotes because the American Health Care Act, much like the Affordable Care Act, had little to […]

If you see “organic” in a product label, there’s a good chance it’s not organic. If you see “natural” in a product label, there’s an excellent chance it’s anything but natural. These are just a couple of issues that the Federal Trade Commission seems to have on its radar as a crackdown on bogus marketing […]

Food manufacturers have been using genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, for years. A GMO is a plant, animal or other organism that had its genes modified in a science lab, typically by having the genes from another organism’s DNA artificially forced into it. This is usually done to make crops resistant to herbicides and pests […]

When I hear big food manufacturers and lobbyists deflecting responsibility for the chronic disease epidemic around the world, I’m often reminded of childish playground conflicts. You know, the almost instinctive responses from kids when they’re busted for doing something they know is wrong. I didn’t do it! It wasn’t my fault! He started it! She […]

Any reader of my blog or participant in one of my seminars knows how strongly I feel about the need to get away from the “sick care” model that reactively treats people after they become ill. If we’re going to reverse the worldwide chronic illness epidemic, we need to adopt a “health care” model that […]

My wife, Stacy, and I were out enjoying a nice dinner a couple of months ago when a look of horror came over Stacy’s face. A man behind me passed out and fell backwards, and the back of his head slapped against the table, knocking him unconscious. Fortunately, this was not a life-threatening situation, although […]

In September, I wrote that Coca-Cola was attempting to change science and buy a new “truth.” This post came after it was revealed that Coke was funding the Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN), which claimed that good health is more about exercise than nutrition. I asked the following question of the folks at Coke: “Do […]