Nutrition • Integrative Therapies • Wellness
Micronutrients are the vitamins, minerals, trace elements, phytochemicals, and antioxidants that are essential for good health. Your body is a complicated, interrelated system that is remarkably resilient. Over a lifetime, the tiny links in the chain that your health depends upon begin to break down. The micronutrients in whole foods provide the reinforcements that retard…
Question: Are yogurt covered pretzels, nuts or fruit a better option than chocolate or candy covered? Answer: Real yogurt can’t coat anything. The yogurt coating is mostly sugar and palm kernel oil. It’s a super old gimmick that still has traction and sometimes still confuses. Try seasoned baked snacks, unsweetened dried fruit or cinnamon…
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs, Prilosec, HK-20 and others), the most potent of acid-reducing medications, are increasingly popular- any many can be purchased at your local pharmacy without a prescription. They reduce stomach acid production by up to 99 percent by decreasing the action of proton pumps, which are part of the stomach lining’s acid-making machinery.…
While a balanced nutrient rich diet is really the best way to meet all of our dietary needs, national surveys indicate that many Americans are not getting enough micronutrients from the diet, possibly increasing their risk for osteoporosis, some forms of cancer, and other chronic diseases. Marginal or subclinical micronutrient deficiencies have been linked to…
