Published November 17, 2014

 Don't throw out your grill just yet — 
new study might save the BBQ

You may have heard that grilling is bad for you. That's because when you heat food on your grill to high temperatures, the characteristic "browning" makes AGEs. That is the "advanced glycation end products." AGEs are molecules that are formed when a sugar molecule reacts with a protein. When that happens, the protein becomes damaged. This can be a big problem when the protein is in the kidney or in the blood vessels. It can lead to heart disease, blindness, atherosclerosis, and kidney disease. So the fewer AGEs you have in your body, the better. 

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Published November 14, 2014

The number one cause of cancer –
and how to find out if you're at risk

What causes cancer? That's an important question. And the answer is simpler than you might think. A while back I wrote a book called, Bursting With Energy. In it I described what I believe to be the ultimate cause of cancer — a decrease in oxygen metabolism. Oxygen metabolism refers to how efficiently a body uses the oxygen it gets. Just because your body is getting oxygen doesn't mean that it's using that oxygen efficiently. And a recent study is backing me up on this theory.

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Published November 12, 2014

More babies die in the U.S. than in most industrialized countries — here's why...

The United States has the best health care system in the world, right? That's what I hear all the politicians and talking heads telling us. But how do they answer this? The third leading cause of death in the U.S. — after cardiovascular disease and cancer — is the treatments that our doctors administer. And it doesn't stop there. A recent study links our routine medical therapies to why we have one of the highest infant death rates in the world.

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