Tag: Diet
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Exercise Overpowers Junk Food Depression
A new study from University College Cork, led by Professor Yvonne Nolan and published October 21, 2025, in Brain Medicine, purports to show exercise can reduce depression-like behaviors caused by a high-fat, high-sugar Western diet. Researchers fed male rats either a healthy diet or a high-fat, high-sugar “cafeteria diet” for seven weeks. Half of each…
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Why 80% of Chronic Disease Is Lifestyle-Driven — and How to Tackle the Other 20%
A cardiologist recently reminded his audience that more than 80% of chronic disease—heart disease, diabetes, cognitive decline, and even many cancers—stems from lifestyle. Diet, exercise, sleep, and stress management aren’t side notes to medicine. They are medicine. That number sounds both liberating and intimidating. If so much of our health depends on daily choices, are…
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Is using aluminum foil bad for your health?
Paul Saladino, MD, tweeted today about the dangers of aluminum foil. In 48 seconds, he claims that using it to cook or store your food is bad for your health. The key quote for me is, “People who cook with aluminum foil have up to two times higher levels of aluminum in their blood than…
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The Moderate Method
The Moderate Method is about a personalized way of living. There are three steps to my method. In order, they are diet, exercise, and life. It’s all rather obvious and meant to be so. You start where you have the most control and move on from there. Diet refers to what you eat, exercise refers…
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5 Tips for Women Who Want to Lose Weight
By Diane Harrison of HealthPSA.info When you want to get in better shape, have more energy, and live a healthier life, one of the first things you may do is try to lose weight. Unfortunately, women often have a harder time than men when trying to lose weight. If you want your weight loss journey…
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New study says increased exercise doesn’t always lead to burning more calories throughout the day
It seems the human body tries to balance itself out all the time. This makes sense if you think about it. Your body is always trying to survive. If you fast your body’s metabolism will slow so you don’t starve to death too quickly. If you eat frequently your metabolism fires up in order to…
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New York Times Op-Ed advocates for more government intervention into what we eat.
Government guidelines and tax policy is what put the United States in this obesity and Type-2 Diabetes predicament in the first place. Their recommendations about eating a low fat high carbohydrate diet created generations of people hooked on sugar and high carbohydrate foods. As long as it was low fat it was considered to be…
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Diets don’t work… including the Ketogenic Diet
In Psychology Today Dr. Carolyn Ross, in my opinion, offers the best common sense approach when talking about the Ketogenic Diet. I think she is incorrect and is citing old information but at least I think she is taking a more reasoned approach to some valid criticisms of all diets. Here is a summary of…