By Bob Condor
The new Barton Publishing “How to Reverse Diabetes Naturally” rightfully devotes a significant number of pages to how your diet can control and even reverse this disease. It’s a report you don’t want to miss if diabetes is a health issue for you or a loved one. There are a number of achievable action steps you can take to control not only blood sugar but your quality of life.
And, happily, …
By Bob Condor
While some mainstream—OK, more than some and less than all—American doctors are still holdouts to the power of nutritional healing, it’s getting harder and harder to hold that hard line.
Case in point: A new study from Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University strongly suggests that turmeric, the spice prevalent in most curries, can prevent type 2 diabetes (formerly called adult-onset diabetes until too many obese teens and pre-teens started developing early symptoms of the degenerative …
By Bob Condor
For 15 years as a health columnist for two major newspapers I have talked to hundreds of scientists about their research on dietary supplements. I make it a point to always ask the same question during our conversation: Do you take this stuff yourself?
In a June 10 story about vitamin D deficiency in the Los Angeles Times, reporter Thomas H. Maugh II notes that “most researchers in the field now take 1,500 IUs [international units] per …
By Bob Condor
Gluten-free eating is becoming easier as natural groceries, some supermarket chains, bakeries and restaurants all strive to provide tasty options that don’t contain the central wheat ingredient. Some people go gluten-free on a natural health practitioner’s suggestion (OK, urging at times), feel better, say, less congested and more energetic, which in turn motivates them to learn new recipes that bypasses the gluten (spelt bread or rice pasta, anyone?).
In some treatment programs, the patient or client will …
