Going with Your Gut
Remember the days when we did not need saviors to tell us how to do things? Remember the good old times when we did not need to search online for an answer, go to some professional who has a certificate…
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Healthcare and the Mask of Love: Hate the Game, Not the Player
Recently, the CEO of the largest healthcare company in the US was gunned down on a sidewalk in New York City. There will be no comment of judgment on the murder, as taking a life is never a positive. As…
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Dietary Guidelines: Losers Coaching Us to Be “Winners”
Our overlords are having a big start to the year with the release of their 2025 dietary guidelines and potential warning labels on alcohol. They first tried instructing us how to eat back in the 1940s with the Basic 7…
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Revenge of the Convenience Chemicals Part 1: PFAs
The most recent of the convenience chemicals to very loudly sound the alarm, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are synthetic, man-made chemicals produced since the 1940s. Before we get into why they are produced, we need a quick organic…
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Health, Effort, and the Pursuit of Happiness
I was once told that the best way to get followers on social media was to write “short and stupid” articles to cater to the equally short attention spans that social media tends to create. I would argue I should…
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Seeing Patterns and Escaping the Herd – Those Things We All Know
As I sit here writing this, staring into a deep abyss, I am in the Pittsburgh International Airport awaiting my flight. Across from me on the other side of the gate sits a middle-aged women on her phone. Her distance…
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The Right to Remain Silent
The cacophony of chattering voices echoed throughout the airport terminal as I sat there awaiting my turn to board the flight. No amount of music on my headphones could drown out the multiple cellphone conversations at full volume, the several…
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Caring, Thinking, and Taking Action
Remaining healthy in the 21st century is a Sisyphean task—the second we stop pushing that giant stone ball up the hill, it roles right back down leaving us at square one. While remaining healthy is always a challenge, we live…
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Bringing the Passeggiata Stateside
In Italian, the word passeggiata means to take a walk. While this may seem simple on the surface, the word has deeper meaning. In fact, in Italy simply taking a walk has much deeper meaning. This word, unlike in the…
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Be Your Own Health Savior
When it Comes to Health, They Aren’t Our Saviors I was recently in attendance for a lecture on obesity by an obesity and nutrition “expert.” This expert advised the audience that we should no longer use the offensive term weight…
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