Just when you thought you were doing a good job in choosing natural products and avoiding adding chemicals to your body, along comes the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) to petition the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow them to add Aspartame and other “non-nutritive sweeteners” […]
Food Sensitivities
Could Your Migraines Be From What You’re Eating?
I’m very excited to share a testimonial from my client who ended her lifelong migraines by doing the MRT food sensitivity testing together with LEAP dietary management protocols. She is a smart, successful, 29-year old attorney, but without the MRT test results it would have been almost impossible to deduce that one of her main […]
Worldwide Demand for Quinoa Up Threefold
Quinoa (pronounced “keen-wah”), the mother grain of the Incas, has become the darling of the foodie and health-nut world. Deliciously nutty, quinoa is the only grain that is a complete protein, perhaps because it’s more of a seed than an actual grain, even though we use it like a grain. Naturally gluten-free, quinoa flour offers […]
Salicylate Sensitivity and Psoriasis
In my work creating customized anti-inflammatory diets, one of the trickiest sensitivities to deal with is salicylate sensitivity. When salicylates show high in the Mediator Release Test (MRT), it translates to an exhaustive analysis of every food before deeming it safe to it for that person. Salicylates […]
Diet Fads Through the Ages
Fad diets drive me crazy. Mostly because they have very little to do with achieving health. CNN posted an entertaining look at diets through history beginning with Lord Byron’s vinegar-and-water diet in the 1820s, touching on the memorable grapefruit and cabbage soup fazes of the mid-twentieth century, and going full steam into the Scarsdale diet […]
