Mediterranean Diet and Nutrition It makes so much sense: “you are what you eat.” Veterinarians know the irreplaceable link between nutrient intake and. health. Actually, most of our pets eat better than most Americans. Your dog or cat probably eats a balanced formula of protein, carbohydrate, fat, fiber, vitamins and minerals. The Mediterranean diet may […]
The KISS Method (keep it simple, student) Getting healthier can be easy. Here are 10 simple steps you can follow on a regular basis for a stronger immune system. Go natural for a strong immune system! Eat foods in as close to their natural state as possible. Refining food often adds questionable agents (like food […]
The difference between a medicine and a poison is dosage. That goes for sunshine, protein, fiber, sleep, work, and nearly anything. Over 100,000 Americans die annually from the on label use of prescription drugs, per JAMA. Yet, there are no deaths from the use of nutrition supplements, even though many are overused and abused. For […]
The modern diet includes too much food, eating too often, and the wrong kind of foods. These errors at the dinner table create monstrous health problems that are now being addressed by fantasy politicians with “universal health care”. Instead of dealing with the underlying cause, let’s use drugs and surgery to mitigate the symptoms…until things […]
Real Food and Healing What is real food and why does it matter? (from the forthcoming book Beating Cancer with Nutrition 2018 by Patrick Quillin, PhD,RD,CNS) We would love your feedback on this chapter of my new book. Your comments at the bottom of this article will help shape the direction of the new book. […]
Medicinal use of apple cider vinegar can be traced back to Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, who used it to treat wounds. In the 10th century, Sung Tse, the founder of forensic medicine, recommended use of apple cider vinegar, also known as ACV, together with sulfur to protect from infection when conducting autopsies. In […]
What is Kombucha? Kombucha is an effervescent tea that is produced through the process of fermentation. Generally, black or green tea is fermented using SCOBY, which stands for symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. The bacteria are used to oxidize the alcohols that are formed by the yeast, creating acetic acids. The SCOBY is introduced […]
We produce enough food within our borders to feed our people, to have about half of them get overfat, to waste enough in trash cans to feed another 50 million people per day, and to ship enough overseas to help our foreign trade deficit. America is unquestionably the most agriculturally productive nation in the history […]
In the 1970s, researchers fed a vitamin E deficient diet to a group of healthy volunteers (read: graduate students) for one year. There were no serious deficiency symptoms, as would be expected if you did the same thing with vitamin C or thiamin. The researchers concluded: “Vitamin E is a vitamin in search of a […]
Living in Tulsa, OK for 11 years, I asked the locals if crime was a problem. They replied, “well, in August you better be sure to lock your car, because otherwise someone might put a bag of zucchini in your car.” 🙂 People who grow zucchini, like me, harvest more than we can eat. Zucchini, […]
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Thank you Darlene. Cancer free after 22 years!
Thanks Darlene. Glad it was