What Should You Be Drinking Stay hydrated. Drink 8 glasses of water per day. Somewhere along the way, society got brainwashed. Maybe it was well-meaning personal trainers. Maybe it was an attempt to manage society’s increasing waistlines. Maybe it was financially motivated by the bottled water companies (although they likely jumped on the bandwagon that […]
I can honestly say that it is very rare that patients truly understand what a refined carb is and how bad it is for health. Which is disturbing considering that refined carbs are known to increase the risk of pretty much every chronic disease known to man. Regardless of what color it is, if a product […]
The is no doubt that the earlier a girl experiences menarche, the scarier it is. This greatly increases the risks of estrogen related cancers like endometrial and breast cancers. Early menarche also means that the hormonal disturbances that caused the early onset of menses are NOT due to “Mother Nature-planned” physiological changes. In other words, hormonal disturbances are only […]
You know, I read A LOT of medical literature. Finding negative health effects of soy is actually quite difficult. The evidence on the health of soy is overwhelmingly positive. There are still oncologists telling their breast cancer patients to avoid soy, despite the fact that it DOUBLES survival rates. Of course, we are talking about […]
The link between breast cancer and alcohol intake has bounced back and forth between no risk and increased risk. The past few years has seen this association settling in on the recommendation that alcohol intake does increase your risk for breast cancer. The mechanism relates to the fact that alcohol raises the level of sex-steroid […]
