Choose Healthy Foods, Not Diet Foods Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney How do you lose weight without counting calories? Most adult Americans gain at least a pound or two each year. That may not sound like much on a yearly basis, but over a lifetime it is huge – if you’ll pardon the pun. Because the health consequences of weight ...
Are You Getting Too Much Protein? Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney How much protein do you need? In a recent article entitled “Can You Get Too Much Protein?” the New York Times asserted that most Americans were getting too much protein in their diet. They went on to imply that protein supplements were useless at best and might ...
Merry Christmas Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney The Christmas season is a wonderful time of year. It is a time when we get together with family and reconnect with friends. It’s a time of year when we remember the joy of giving and the joy of making the world a better place. For those of us who are Christians, ...
TMJ Treatment Can Relieve Stress & Pain Author: Julie Donnelly, LMT –The Pain Relief Expert Editor: Dr. Steve Chaney TMJ is the common term for a jaw condition called temporomandibular joint dysfunction. The muscle that is key to the TMJ pain relief treatment described below is the masseter muscle. The holiday season is “famous” for increasing stress as ...
Does Your Prenatal Contain Enough Iodine? Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney A recent study (S.M. O’Kane et al, British Journal of Nutrition, doi.org/10.1017/S0007114516003925) concluded that 2/3 of Irish women had no idea that iodine was important during pregnancy. In fact, 57% of the women had no idea what iodine was, and 41% were unable to name any health ...
Was Popeye Right? Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney You may have seen the recent headlines proclaiming that eating spinach will make you stronger. The more “mature” adults among my readers may remember the Popeye cartoons of our youth. Every time Popeye was on the brink of disaster he would down a can of spinach and become superhuman. Was ...
Could You Live To Be 120 And Beyond? Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney Recent headlines suggest that we can slow biological aging just by increasing our consumption of certain vitamins. That sounds wonderful. After all, everyone is still hoping for that mythical “Fountain of Youth” and anti-aging vitamins could be just the ticket. But, what did the paper behind ...
Is Surgery The Only Option? Author: Julie Donnelly, LMT –The Pain Relief Expert Editor: Dr. Steve Chaney Recently I was speaking at a convention and a woman came to me complaining of back of knee pain that was sharp each time she stood up. She had been told she needed knee surgery, but this was a solution she ...
Do They “Cherry Pick” Scientific Studies? Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney When we buy a food supplement from a company we assume that it will provide a benefit. We are trusting that company to be honest in their product claims. But, are there any honest nutritional supplement companies? What if they were lying to us? What if they ...
“As The Twig Bends…” Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney You have probably heard the saying “As the twig bends, so grows the tree.” The origin of that quote is lost in lore of medieval England, but the saying absolutely rings true when we are talking about infant nutrition and a bad diet as an adult. Most moms naturally assume ...