Rev Your Health

Children: Nutrition, Behavior and Health-Part Two In Part One, we stressed the importance of adequate hydration, and the damaging effects of soda drinking—two simple things that can make a huge difference in a person’s health. In Part Two, our focus will be on the importance of fats for proper brain function, specifically cholesterol. Cholesterol is [...]

Children: Nutrition, Behavior and Health—Part One We all know that nutrition plays a big role in a child’s health. But how much of a role does nutrition play in children’s behavior? The answer is: much bigger than most realize. It may amaze parents to know that much of the undesirable behavior—which is also a sign [...]

These days, with our mineral and nutrient depleted soils, nutritional deficiencies (especially mineral deficiencies) are much more common than people realize, and their effects produce significant ill health and disease. By recognizing some of the symptoms of these nutritional deficiencies they can be remedied before full-blown disease sets in.   Perhaps the five most common [...]

I think what’s needed most regarding healthy nutrition for kids and adults is knowledge and understanding. For instance, when parents and kids truly understand the effects of drinking soda on the body, they ( kids included) won’t want to go near it (soda)with a ten foot pole. Well, some will still drink it, but at least [...]

Pasta, being a highly processed food, is basically stripped of all its nutrients, leaving behind a bunch of empty calories. There are basically two mechanisms by which pasta causes weight gain.   First, when carbohydrates are highly processed, they’re transformed from complex carbohydrates into simple carbohydrates. Complex carbohydrates and simple carbohydrates are processed very differently [...]

Probably one of the most surprising energy zappers commonly consumed is coffee!!!   The caffeine, especially when combined with added sugar (most ladies like their coffee sweetened), causes blood sugar to go on a roller coaster ride. Additionally, caffeine is a nervous system stimulant, giving a “pick me up” effect by stimulating the central nervous [...]

Here’s a list of ten foods that are incorrectly thought of as healthy:   1. Margarine; 2. Polyunsaturated Oils; 3. Low-fat or Non-fat milk; 4. Bottled Water; 5. Distilled Water; 6. Canola Oil; 7. Pasteurized Milk (from most supermarkets); 8. Extra lean or lean ground beef (fat taken out); 9. Granola; 10. Cooking with Olive Oil [...]

The major health benefits of walking are:   1. De-stress–In today’s high stress lifestyle, walking gives you a chance to slow down, breathe deeply, and smell the roses.   2. The leg muscles act as a “second heart”, pumping the blood back to the heart. The rhythmic and frequent contraction of the leg muscles pumps the venous blood against gravity [...]

Many people see health as a very complicated thing. Figuring out what’s wrong with them seems like an almost impossible task. Then, when told that their problem could be as simply corrected as drinking more water, they don’t believe it! It’s gotta be something more complicated like replacing all their mercury fillings, or some obscure [...]

In an earlier blog, I quoted Thomas Edison, when he said: “The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.” I’m repeating this quote because I want to expand on this idea in [...]