Go Ahead and Have a Cookie

‘Tis the season for Christmas sweets and chocolate Chanukah gelt. Go ahead and have a cookie! You’ve been good and you’ve already put some new lifestyle changes in place this year that you’ll follow through with in 2013. To make your Healthier Lifestyle easier, give Santa some ideas from Dr. Sharon’s list of favorites: 1. A Big strong blender for processing smoothies, salsas, and hummus. Melissa, my assistant, has...

A Pain in the Arsenic

Recently there’s been some warnings in the news that rice may contain excess arsenic. Would you like to know how it got there? It’s the chicken. As you might have heard from me previously, I am not a fan of our patients eating industrially-raised chicken. In Dr. Gregor’s video here, he explains how chickens are fed arsenic to kill parasites. Later, the chicken by-products find their way into fertilizers...