Tagged: gluten

Because I am so passionate about making food, I am always creating new recipes or reinventing old ones. I have created a #glutenfree #chocolate #lavacake recipe for my son who has gluten #intolerance. Easy and yummy! To make gluten-free lava cake: follow a recipe on the back of Bob’s Red Mill chocolate cake mix. This […]

When patients first visit my office, I always make it my business to find out not only about their health histories and lifestyle habits, but also what they eat. Fortunately, these days patients are more knowledgeable about nutrition than they were even five or 10 years ago, so that makes the job of turning their […]

Although, it’s quite debatable whether carbohydrates are essential for human nutrition, for most people, they’re the fuel their body runs on. For some folks, going on an extreme low-carb or no-carb diet causes them to have barely enough energy to hoist a coffee cup in the morning. At the opposite end of the scale, the […]

Brain health problems have been skyrocketing lately. Today, close to 20% of adults suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder — and that stat is only increasing. Depression is now the leading cause of disability worldwide. Anxiety disorders affect more than 40 million Americans. And Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United […]

If you suffer from the often-devastating autoimmune joint disease rheumatoid arthritis, you may have a reason to try a change in diet: a gluten-free vegan diet may improve symptoms in some people who have been diagnosed with the condition, two separate medical studies show. The diet might not slow the joint damage caused by rheumatoid […]