How fake sugars sneak into foods and disrupt metabolic health

No matter where you are in your current wellness journey, you probably know that sugar is a threat to your metabolic health. And while America is waking up to the dangers of processed sugar, we’re now faced by yet another (and possibly more dangerous) alternative: fake sugar. The number of new foods containing sucrose, or

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Be healthy, not thin

Have you ever heard this phrase: “You’re healthy, look how slim you are”? Or these: “I can’t believe he had a heart attack, he was so thin.” “Isn’t type 2 diabetes for fat people?” This is a glaring example of how we have been so undereducated on a crucial topic. Let me remove any confusion

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Dr. Virgie Bright Ellington: Can You Tell if Your Medical Bill is a Fraud?

80 to 90% of the medical bills in the United States have mistakes, and it’s definitely not in favor of the patient. It wasn’t until Dr. Virgie Bright Ellington, an internal medicine physician, and a health insurance executive, witnessed how her hospital roommate was taken advantage of financially that she knew, more than helping insurance companies, it is the patients that need her help the most.

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What is metabolic health, anyway?

I get asked this question a lot: “What is metabolic health?” It’s not a commonly used phrase in daily life, and most doctors rarely mention it. We’re familiar with cardiovascular health, mental health, and “general” physical health, but not metabolic health. Today, we believe – and are indeed led to believe – that we are

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How to recover from a heart attack

A heart attack can feel like a world-ending emergency. Although 805,000 people experience one every year, it can still be an incredibly isolating medical event — and perhaps not something you thought would happen to you. There are countless articles online explaining how you can avoid heart attacks. But now that you’ve experienced one and

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Why intuitive eating can make you fat

The concept of intuitive eating just makes sense, especially in a world of deprivation diets that leave us hungry, tired, and irritable. But intuitive eating isn’t a silver bullet in every circumstance. Success or failure depends on what you’re fueling your body with — and with more than 73% of the US food supply inundated

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Genetic testing for obesity: Are you wasting your time?

Is obesity genetic or environmental? If you ask a lot of conventional doctors, genetics may be their first response. After all, some ‘skinny’ people can eat fried food all day and look perfectly healthy. So you sign up to test your family genetics for contributing factors of obesity. You know it’s expensive — potentially several

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