The fast food industry now uses hundreds of modified food compounds as biochemical triggers to increase appetite and food cravings. Fast food chains such as McDonald’s spend vast amounts of money in this new food science of using addictive substances...

Sunlight exposure on the skin is the most important source of vitamin D.  The sun’s ultraviolet rays trigger vitamin D synthesis in the skin. Vitamin D aids in the absorption of calcium from the food we eat, and in the...

Throughout this rejuvenating body cleanse, all food should be fresh and organically grown, if possible.  During this program, we are off caffeine (coffee, tea, cola and chocolate), alcohol, refined sugar and flour products, margarine and other hydrogenated oils, preservatives and...

That depends on what kind of salt we’re talking about. Almost all traditional cultures use salt.  Cultures living far from the sea would burn sodium-rich marsh grasses and add the ash to their food.  Salt is needed for: 1) the...

Food and water molecules have a positive and negative end similar to the north and south polarity of a magnet.  The magnetron in a microwave oven generates an alternating current of more than a billion cycles per second.  As this...

Mix or blend the following ingredients: 3 tablespoons of highest quality organic olive oil.  (If you have chronic liver problems, or if your gall bladder has been removed, use only 1 tablespoon.) The juice of 1 organic lemon. 1 to...

Since I first started practicing in 1980, I’ve often had patients with allergies and sinus congestion from supermarket milk and cheese, switch to raw milk products from local cows or goats.  With this one change, the chronic allergies, sinus and...

Enzymes are the “spark plugs” of life.  Enzymes initiate every biochemical reaction in the body.  The enzymes that are naturally abundant in raw, uncooked food cause that food to be digested when we eat it. Cooking, or any processing of...

Gluten, glutenin and gliaden are protein fractions found in high quantities in wheat, and to a lesser extent in oats, barley, rye, spelt, kamut and triticale.  Celiac disease is an extreme allergic reaction to gluten/gliaden that causes abdominal pain, gassiness,...

Excerpt from Erika Schwartz, MD, The 30 Day Natural Hormone Plan “I made a short list of foods with serious potential to throw off your hormone balance and make you feel really crummy. . . . when you start feeling...

The nutritional content of commercially produced fruits, vegetables and grains has decreased severely over the past 70 years, for several reasons.  The synthetic fertilizers used since the early 1900’s have only a few macro-minerals needed for growth.  Thus our food-producing...

For many years, independent researchers (not funded by the vast hydrogenated oil industry) have considered refined carbohydrates (sugar, alcohol, white flour) to be the major dietary cause of degenerative diseases.  With the vast increase in degenerative diseases in the last...

Soybeans were first used as a food by Asians after they had learned to ferment them.  The fermented soy products tempeh, miso and tamari are the only soy products without adverse health effects. Unfermented soy products have potent enzyme inhibitors...

Is there any food you just can’t seem to get enough of? If you know it’s in the house, you keep getting pulled back into the kitchen for a little bit more – until you’ve polished it off. And even...

When new patients bring in the supplements they are taking, I look them over and test them for the patient using clinical kinesiology. I recommend discontinuing the supplements that weaken them. Sometimes that is the only thing we do until...

I take new patients completely off of all products with white flour, puffed grains or refined sugars – including corn syrup and fructose, and off all artificial sweeteners — including Splenda. I then check for any reactions to various unrefined...