Coconut Oil: Good for Cooking but No Miracle Cure

The American Heart Association (AHA) recently came out with a presidential advisory that coconut oil should be avoided for heart health due to its saturated fat content. Meanwhile, many people in the natural medicine community have been promoting coconut oil as a great way to lose weight based on an extrapolation of research done by Marie-Pierre St-Onge, Ph.D. at Columbia University. So where is the truth? The answer is somewhere in the middle. Coconut Oil & Saturated Fats It’s important to note that saturated fats got a bad reputation in part due to hydrogenated fats (also known as trans fats)

Health Tech Resources: Fooducate

We talk to all of our patients about improving their diets not only to treat specific conditions like hypercholesterolemia or diabetes but also to generally support energy and wellness.  It is difficult to navigate the convoluted world of nutrition science because nutrition science is full of controversies, and conflicts of interest, and packaging is designed to be deceiving.  While we give you information and tools in the office, there are many food choices that are hard to make without specific guidance.  This is why I recommend the Fooducate App. How Fooducate Helps You Make Good Choices As you begin to work

Eat to Feel Good

The Diet Wars, Volume Two: The New Year’s Resolution Weight Loss Detox Every year, we all talk about it: New Year’s resolutions, weight loss, and getting fit.  Just about everybody thinks about shedding the few extra pounds of holiday indulgences that are making their pants fit a little tighter. Some people are determined to make this the year they will wear pants they haven’t been able to fit in for years. And the current fad now is to “detox.” So what really is the best weight loss plan, or detox plan? The most important thing to remember is what I

Are Vegan Diets Better?

The Diets War - Volume 1 I was recently interviewed for an article in Connecticut Magazine, asked about my thoughts on a vegan diet... and I wanted to expand upon the topic. The internet is full of recommendations and admonitions about what you should eat, and you don’t have to look around very long to realize many of these claims directly contradict each other. So how do you make sense of it all? Start by remembering what people most often forget: there is no one single healthy diet that is best for everyone. Different health conditions require different diets, and

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