SHOULD WE BUY food with health claims on the label? These days, we are seeing more and more health claims that go beyond the usual. These include “trans fat-free,” “gluten-free,” “heart healthy,” and foods spiked with vitamins, such as my new favorite: Diet Coke Plus, with vitamins and minerals. We see whole-grain Pop Tarts and [...]
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YOU COULD BE EATING sawdust — and not even know it! Sound crazy? Let me explain. On a recent plane ride to a medical conference, I started a conversation with the man sitting next to me to pass the time. I told him that I was a physician working in the area of nutrition. He [...]
IMAGINE EATING 12 POUNDS of food a day — and still staying thin and healthy. That may sound crazy, but it’s exactly what our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate for millennia! And they didn’t have any obesity or chronic diseases like heart disease, diabetes, cancer, or dementia. Of course, I wouldn’t advise anyone today to eat 12 [...]
GOT MILK? These days, it seems like almost everybody does. Celebrities, athletes, and even former president Clinton’s head of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala, are all proud to wear the white “milk mustache.” After all, everyone knows that you need milk to be healthy … Dairy is nature’s perfect food — but only if [...]
THERE’S NO DOUBT about it. Artificial sweeteners cause obesity. I always thought it was funny to see a very large person order a Big Mac, large fries — and top it off with a Diet Coke. I also found it peculiar that I rarely saw thin people drinking diet sodas. So I began to wonder [...]
NOW THAT THE WARMER months are here, it’s a good time to discuss a vitamin that has been getting a lot of press lately: vitamin D, also known as the sunshine vitamin. Ironic, because vitamin D is not a vitamin nor a nutrient; it is a hormone produced by the body in the skin from [...]
RECENTLY, I SPOKE on a panel for PBS TV at the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) convention in Boston. The topic was dementia. There was a woman with mild cognitive impairment on the panel. Her condition is sort of like pre-Alzheimer’s disease. Everyone on the panel — including the Harvard neurologist — agreed that [...]
FOR BOTH PRACTITIONER AND PATIENT, the task of identifying the right vitamins and other supplements can be confusing, and even overwhelming. In 20 years of clinical practice in integrative and functional medicine, Mark Hyman, MD has found the best-quality therapeutic-grade nutraceuticals offering maximum bioavailability. He offers them to other practitioners, his own patients, and other [...]
I WAS IN New York City recently at a conference for health care practitioners on Nutrition and Health put on by Columbia University and the University of Arizona. Andrew Weil started this conference highlighting that we need to address the nutritional illiteracy of physicians. I couldn’t agree more. I think that nutrition is the most [...]
YOUR CHILDREN WILL DIE younger than we will. That’s a scary thought — and one that’s going to become a fact if we keep following the same bad habits of the last 30 years. There’s no doubt about it. We’re living in a toxic food environment. But it doesn’t have to be this way. This week, [...]
How 5,000 Year Old Medicine Combined with 21st Century Science Can Help You Live Longer
by Dr Mark HymanWHAT KIND OF DOCTOR are you?” It’s one of the most common questions I get when I lecture or travel. People want to know: Am I an alternative doctor, an integrative doctor, a holistic doctor, a natural doctor? The answer? I’m none of the above! In fact, I trained as a family doctor because I was interested [...]
I AM PLEASED that two of my four New York Times bestselling books are now available in new paperback editions. The UltraMind Solution had its paperback debut June 10, 2010; The UltraSimple Diet came out in a larger paperback format just months before. For more information on all my “Ultra” titles, visit this microsite.