Did you catch the terrific article Dr. Mercola posted last week on the science of the relationship between positive emotions and health? (If you didn’t, go check it out now. We’ll wait for you.) Yet all too often in such discussions, oral health tends to get overlooked – even as we know that negative emotions […]
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Rainbow of Risks: Artificial Food Dyes
The whole purpose of artificial food coloring is to snag our sense of sight, capture our attention, and lure us in. Maybe it’s a latent survival mechanism – nutritious fruit and veg is brightly colored, too – but technicolor foods appeal to us. And though most of us don’t think so, food dyes are probably […]
Too Much Radiation: Ways of Controlling EMF Exposure
Since the start of the Industrial Age, we humans have transformed our environment more radically than our distant ancestors might even have been able to dream. In many ways, this has been for the good. It’s increased democracy and raised standards of living around the world. But any achievement also comes with costs. Industrial practices […]
Enjoy Your Holiday Desserts with Your Dentist’s Blessing
Candy canes. Cookies. Fruitcake. Fudge. Mulled cider or wine. Egg nog. All of the most conspicuous traditional holiday treats seem to be sugar bombs. Yet who can imagine the holiday season without them? It just wouldn’t feel like Christmas – or any of the other winter holidays and observations – without the traditional foods we […]
From the Archives: Choosing the Path to Your Preferred Future
Originally published on August 29, 2013 When you’re sick for a long time and your doctors can’t say why or offer much of any treatment beyond “managing” your symptoms for the rest of your life, you may start looking beyond the medical establishment for answers. This is how many people “discover” biological dentistry even exists, […]
Timing Is Everything – Even When Sleeping
We’ve talked before about the relationship between sleep and good health – and how it’s not just the quantity of sleep that counts but the quality of that sleep. That quality, it turns out, may be affected by the timing of your sleep. So suggests a new study out of Washington State University. The study, […]
Healthful Eating: 3 Things to Stop Obsessing About – & 1 to Focus on a Whole Lot More
What were we saying not so long ago about government health advice? Now there’s this in the British Medical Journal: The expert report underpinning the next set of US Dietary Guidelines for Americans fails to reflect much relevant scientific literature in its reviews of crucial topics and therefore risks giving a misleading picture, an investigation […]
Notes on the Changing Food Landscape
It was big news last year when General Mills announced that Cheerios would become GMO-free – even though it was a clearly a go at low-hanging fruit: the cereal hardly contained any GMO ingredients to begin with. But it was also a sign that consumer demand was having an impact. Since then, we’ve seen other […]