Last week, I flew to Greenville, South Carolina to meet with the Kluge family. I talked with them about their health, looking to understand the roots of their family crisis of morbid obesity, pre-diabetes, renal failure, disability, financial stress, and hopelessness. We talked about how they could dig themselves out of their scary downward spiral, [...]
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How do you lose weight? Substitute diet drinks for sugary drinks. Eat low fat foods. Just eat less of the bad foods – it’s all about the calories. We are told, “Just have more willpower”. These ideas are false. They are food and diet industry propaganda that make and keep us fat and sick. Lies [...]
Click here to read Part I of the story. Have you ever found yourself polishing off a plate of chocolate chip cookies, not even conscious of your actions or submerged yourself into a whole pizza wondering why you’re still eating when you’re not even hungry? Over 9 million American men and women would answer this [...]
One of the perks of writing a book about sound medical solutions to common health complaints is that I have an opportunity to reach so many people from so many places on the globe. In the release of my latest book, The Blood Sugar Solution, I have been inspired by countless tales of the human [...]
Never before in human history have we seen “adult onset” or type 2 diabetes in children. There has been an over 1,000% increase in type 2 diabetes in children over the last two decades(1). Fifteen years ago 3% of new cases of diabetes in children were type 2 diabetes. Now it is 50%(2). Forty percent [...]
If you saw the recent 60 Minutes segment by Dr. Sanjay Gupta on the dangers of sugar you might be scared off the sweet stuff for good. It causes heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and cancer and it makes super bad, super dense, super dangerous cholesterol particles. The data is pretty strong on this. Scientists even [...]
Two seemingly groundbreaking studies, published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine found that type 2 diabetes, or “diabesity”, could be cured with gastric bypass surgery. The flurry of media attention and medical commentary hail this as a great advance in the fight against diabetes. The cure was finally discovered for what was [...]
This week, in an act of desperation to turn back the tide of the obesity epidemic that now affects almost seven out of every ten Americans and over 80% of some populations (African American women), the advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted 20 to 2 to recommend approval of Qnexa, a [...]
Americans are overfed and undernourished. That’s right, the most obese children and adults in the country are also the most nutritionally deficient!(1) How can those two things possibly co-exist? The mistake is to think that if you eat an abundance of calories, your diet automatically delivers all the nutrients your body needs. But the opposite [...]
This program did not just meet my expectations, it surpassed them! Several years before the beta, I was tested for food allergies. I had several (allergies) but the tests indicated that I had no problem with gluten or dairy. As a beta participant, among the things I gave up for six weeks, were gluten and [...]
I lost 22 pounds and 5 inches off my waist in 8 weeks. I started at 218.5 and am now 196.5 and still losing. After completing this program – I feel better than I have in years – lots of symptoms that I was attributing to menopause/aging – hot flashes, sore joints, fatigue, inability to [...]
To date, I’ve lost 14.6 lbs (from 256.4 to 241.8) and have also experienced enough improvement in blood pressure readings to ask my doctor to decrease my medication. Blood sugar readings are also improving–I am determined to continue with the beta to hopefully go off insulin altogether The “beta” gave me hope and results. I’ve [...]