Temperance

Intermittent Fasting to Control Diabetes and Obesity

March 30, 2025 by Satchin Panda and Pam Taub - Reading Time: 7 minutes

People with obesity, high blood sugar, high blood pressure or high cholesterol are often advised to eat less and move more, but our new research suggests there is now another simple tool to fight off these diseases: restricting your eating time to a daily 10-hour window. Studies done in mice and fruit flies suggest that […]

Problems with Chocolate

March 16, 2025 by Bernell Baldwin - Reading Time: 17 minutes

Let’s face it. Chocolate is delicious, and a top favorite of many people. Some enjoy it freely, relying on its positive contribution to pleasure and nutrition, others, aware of some of its unhealthful qualities, abstain. Seems we are currently caught between surges of those opposing attitudes and usage. What, really is the current state of […]

The Secret for a Better and Longer Life

May 12, 2024 by Bernell Baldwin - Reading Time: 14 minutes

Dinner is served. Grandmother Sally, alert and happy, is facing her first meal in some time in her son’s California ranch-style home. Her son Clyde is a comfortably fixed dairy cattleman who loves his wife Lela’s cooking a bit too much -– Uncle Clyde believes in eating generously. His trim mother Sally, daughter of a […]

Binge Eating, Anorexia and Bulimia

January 28, 2024 by Dr. Cesar Vasconcellos de Souza - Reading Time: 9 minutes

Today we are going to talk about eating disorders and you might think, “‘But I have nothing to do with it, I don’t suffer from that”. If you do not have this problem, take the opportunity to learn about it and help someone who does. Not much is being said about eating disorders. There are […]

Healthy Weight Helps

August 20, 2023 by Vicki Griffin - Reading Time: 5 minutes

Cindy had many challenges in her life. She made a positive choice to quit smoking but then gained 80 pounds. “I felt miserable and had a terrible self-image. I was plagued by headaches and stomach pain. I decided that it was time to change my attitude, my thinking, and my choices to turn my life […]

Changing Bad Habits — for Good!

May 28, 2023 by Vicki Griffin - Reading Time: 5 minutes

Habits — we all have them. American author Elbert Hubbard said: “Habit is the great economizer of energy.” He was exactly right. Habits are our friends — when they’re good ones. Habits are routines that help us repeat safe and effective behaviors and build consistency and security into our lives. But bad habits can become […]

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