In this column, I’d like to take a closer look at three widely shared assumptions that greatly influence how we think about cholesterol and heart disease. Here are the three assumptions. See how many you agree with. There are two kinds of cholesterol, one “good” (HDL) and one “bad” (LDL).
Every March, the natural foods and products industry gets together for one of the biggest trade shows in America, Natural Products Expo West. In its pre-pandemic heyday, as many as 2,500 companies exhibited their wares, which range from every vitamin and supplement product you can imagine, to "plant-based chicken." (Let’s...
Every teacher knows that you don’t really learn a subject until you have to teach it. Which is exactly what happened to me with the subject of fasting. As a nutritionist, I’ve been familiar with all the metabolic benefits of fasting for decades. I just never actually did it. And...
