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Achieving Longevity Through Your Favorite Foods
A quick Google search of the term “longevity” will prompt a whole host of results centered on habits linked to a longer life, longevity as determined by your genetics, and even tools that supposedly function as “life expectancy...

7 Pleasantly Surprising Health Benefits of Dark Chocolate
Dark chocolate has long been thought of as a special treat to be saved for the occasional guilty pleasure or holiday. In this case, however, the indulgent taste is deceiving—dark chocolate containing 80 percent cacao or higher is packed with nutrients that can...
Food Doses: How Much of Each Food Should You Eat to Beat Disease?
Did you know that you can test the healing properties of foods in the same ways in which you test pharmaceutical drugs? It’s true. You can make decisions about what to eat and drink based on scientific evidence gleaned from testing foods with the same systems and...

An Overview of Food as Medicine to Fight Disease
In my book Eat to Beat Disease, I outline several powerful ways in which food can be used as medicine to prevent and combat numerous critical illnesses. Right now, our healthcare system is struggling to heal millions of sick people – many of them suffering from...

The Many Health Benefits of Tomatoes
We’ve been talking a lot about tomatoes for their immune boosting benefits lately, but this is only one of the many health boosting effects tomatoes can offer. Tomatoes have also been shown to be antiangiogenic, which means they stop the unwanted growth of new blood...

Preparing Your Immune System for “Normal” Life
As businesses across the country slowly begin to reopen, it is crucial to continue strengthening your immune system as preparation for your re-emergence into life outside of quarantine. With some states already open and others planning to soon, there comes a false...

100% Fruit Juice Products: Is Sugar a Concern?
It is great that more light has been shed on the dangers of consuming too much refined sugar in recent years. Overconsumption of some added sugars can have seriously harmful effects such as weight gain, cardiovascular issues, negative impacts on the skin, increased...

Cinco de Mayo Inside, and Recipe
As quarantine stretches on, it’s important to both adapt yet maintain as much of your normal routine as possible. For most, this may mean making more of an effort to stay connected socially as we maintain physical distancing. Cinco de Mayo is the perfect opportunity...