Author Archive: colinchamp

The Mediterranean Ketogenic Lifestyle

Many of us have been promoting a ketogenic diet for years – and that includes both strict and continual ketosis, or the often-preferable low carb diet that fluctuates through intermittent states of ketosis. Initially people like Jeff Volek were laughed…
Read more

My Anti-Cancer Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is that time of the year where we pause to be thankful – thankful for our friends, thankful for our family and, hopefully, thankful for our health. But it is also the beginning of a time of the year…
Read more

Six Rules for Choosing Healthy Chocolate

As a health nut and low-carb advocate, and strong proponent of bitter foods to maximize my health and help prevent cancer, I turn to chocolate as my number one dessert. If selected properly, dark chocolate provides a plethora of health…
Read more

The Ketogenic Diet: Making It Difficult for Cancer to Latch On?

Adrienne Scheck, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at Phoenix Children’s Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona is one of the most prolific researchers when it comes to brain cancer and the ketogenic diet (AND, she is an amazing person). As a radiation oncologist…
Read more

A Basic Lifestyle Guide after Breast Cancer Treatment

breast cancer and sugar

A Basic Lifestyle Guide after Breast Cancer Treatment By Colin E. Champ, M.D.   Breast cancer continues to be the most common non-skin cancer in women, with one in eight experiencing a diagnosis at some point in their life. Risk…
Read more

Are You Living an Intentional Lifestyle?

An unfortunate phenomenon has made its way through our society over the past several decades, fueled in a large part by my colleagues in the medical world, big business’s thirst for profits, and big agriculture’s ploy to dump their excess…
Read more

Meat, Dairy, Eggs, and Cancer: Quality over Quantity

animal foods and cancer

Author’s Note: Some of this article contains excerpted passages from within my new book, which should be released in the near future. Some of the topics were kept brief as they will be explored more deeply in the book. Meat,…
Read more

Artificial Sweeteners – This is Your Brain on Drugs

artificial sweeteners

Back in the 80’s, I spent my days at school, playing in the yard and woods, fighting with my brother over baseball cards, and watching Thundercats and GI Joe. While doing the latter, every once in a while, the famous…
Read more

Is Your Office Giving You Cancer? Then Fight It

office cancer

  Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage” -The Smashing Pumpkins, 1995   I read a recent study from my office – a windowless room in the basement of a hospital in Pittsburgh. In…
Read more

The Ketogenic Diet and Cancer: The Myths and Where We Stand in 2018

ketogenic diet and cancer

I wrote my first blog post on the ketogenic diet and cancer just over five years ago: A Ketogenic Diet for Cancer followed by another article four years ago, The Ketogenic Diet and Cancer: Where We Stand. I have been meaning to…
Read more