Yesterday I listed the Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen Plus, the annual list of the conventionally-grown produce most contaminated with pesticides. Those are the ones that you most want to buy organic. Today’s list contains the fifteen least contaminated fruits and veggies. These you can feel pretty safe buying the non-organic, conventionally-farmed version because it […]
Food Sensitivities
What Foods Have Been Genetically Modified (GMO)?
At the Seeds of Doubt conference outside of Boulder, CO, last weekend, I learned exactly which fruits and vegetables in our country could be grown from a genetically-modified seed and end up in your grocery cart and you would never know it. Europe has banned GM foods for human and animal consumption for more than […]
How Green Smoothies Can Be Bad for Your Health
More leafy greens are always good for you, the more the better, right? As usual, when you make a general statement about everyone in the population, that statement may not be valid for everyone. When it come to leafy greens, they are high in oxalates which give some people trouble when they form oxalate crystals […]
Is Miralax helpful to ease constipation in children?
Pediatrician Dr. Claudia M. Gold calls Miralax a “bandaid” in an article published in today’s Boston Globe. She argues that Miralax doesn’t address the cause behind the constipation even if it can sometimes offer some relief. I couldn’t agree more. After several long, painful years of trying to help my desperately constipated son with daily […]
What causes Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)?
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) often stumps medical doctors. I see many IBS sufferers who carry thick files of medical records testifying to all the specialists they’ve seen, to all the medications they’ve tried, and to all the dietary and other advice they’ve received. IBS is a serious condition that can cause great physical distress to […]
