The older generation that suffers from diabetes today grew up at a time when sugar was not added to every yogurt and breakfast cereal. When oats were considered healthy, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and even maple syrup were not loaded to them. Cookies were not served as desert for every meal. And candy was […]
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Take That to the Fair! The Rule of Expansion
Here is another useful fact that no one else has ever talked about because it is another HeartMark Health original: The Rule of Expansion. The Rule of Expansion refers to how much bulk space food takes up in your stomach after it sits there for a few minutes. It assumes that you want to maximize […]
SPECIAL FOOD FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN
(Below is my article that was printed in 2008 by AZ Parenting magazine.) As parents, we all want our children to be as healthy and as bright as possible. We feed them a mix of healthy food and the occasional junk, hoping the healthy food will cancel out the junk. However, if your children have […]
Daily Set Point for Water and Sugar (TM)
Have you ever noticed that the less you drink, the less you feel the need to drink water? Have you noticed that the more sugar you eat, the more sugar you want? These two questions began my study 15 years ago on what I call the body’s Daily Set Point for Water and Sugar, or […]
Food is What Keeps You Alive
Make a HeartMark, take a breath, and think about this very obvious but totally skipped basic fact: we are 100% made up of what we put into our body through our mouth. If we put into our body food that has what we need in order to grow (food with protein), then we can grow. […]