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The Sugar You Eat Ages Your Face: How To Reverse The “Sugar Sag” In Your Skin

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Last week I blogged about healthy party foods that you can find at almost every holiday gathering — hop over here if you want to be armed with a list of my top 5 party foods that I reach for before heading into your holiday parties and New Years Eve celebrations. The Healthiest Party Foods To Eat + Navigating Your Specific Food Cravings And just to be clear — chocolate is one of my go-to foods on that party list. And yes I know there is sugar in chocolate. If you want to read more about the astounding …

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Dec 11 2023

Just In Time For Easter: How To Eat Chocolate To Boost Your Metabolism

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

I’m really excited to tell you about today’s medical study, because I love chocolate so much and I particularly love milk chocolate. Most medical studies seem to focus on the healthy properties of dark chocolate (for good reason, as dark chocolate is a rich source of antioxidants) but I can’t seem to make myself fall in love with dark chocolate. But milk chocolate? Ummm yeah, can’t get enough. So this interesting medical study caught my eye. Published in the FASEB Journal, June 2021, researchers found that eating milk chocolate daily reduced the amount of calories that study …

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Apr 11 2022

Are You Kidding Me? What Diet Drinks Are Really Doing To You

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

File this under: I’m not surprised. But all the same, a new medical study shows us the disturbing proof that eating foods and drinking diet drinks with artificial sweeteners in them actually changes how your body is able to handle glucose… increasing your risk for Type 2 Diabetes. Makes sense… you are basically training your body to have an abnormal response to sugar by feeding it artificial sweeteners. What I didn’t know is how quickly your body slows down it’s insulin response and begins to abnormally uptake glucose in the gut and concentrate it in the bloodstream. Two weeks! …

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Sep 25 2017

What You Eat Is Making Your Anxiety Worse

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Today I wanted to share some foods that are medically proven to worsen anxiety, and some foods found to help lift anxiety. Did you know treating anxiety actually adds years to your life span? More on that in a moment. But first, let’s not worsen or trigger your underlying anxiety with the wrong foods. Nutritional psychiatry is a real thing — using nutrition to treat mood disorders can transform your life and make huge shifts in your ability to function and even thrive, despite having a predisposition towards anxiety. Two foods that might be worsening your anxiety: …

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Jul 24 2017

Dementia: A Gluten Induced Condition (And What To Do About It)

Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Last week I shared a new study that proves and association between Alzheimers Disease and pesticide exposure… and 4 things you can do to decrease your own risk. This week, I want to continue with the focus on brain health and share with you a very interesting idea that I’ve begun to embrace whole-heartedly… …that gluten may be casting a brain-fog over our entire civilization! Enter this book: Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar — Your Brain’s Silent Killers, by Dr. David Perlmutter, Associate Professor at the University of Miami School of …

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May 5 2014

The Sugar You Eat Ages Your Face: How To Reverse The “Sugar Sag” In Your Skin

Just In Time For Easter: How To Eat Chocolate To Boost Your Metabolism

Are You Kidding Me? What Diet Drinks Are Really Doing To You

What You Eat Is Making Your Anxiety Worse

Dementia: A Gluten Induced Condition (And What To Do About It)

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