Diseases and Conditions
Triglycerides A change to a plant-based diet affects not only food choices but also body biochemistry. Often this switch is made to gain healthier blood lipid levels and we can rejoice when our cholesterol levels diminish, knowing that this result means that our potential of suffering a cardiovascular event such as atherosclerosis will decrease. But…
Read More...The problem with the way most people eat in today’s fast-paced modern world is that most of our life is spent in what is known as a “post-prandial” state. In other words, because we are fortunate enough to be able to eat three “square” meals every day we exist always in an “after-meal” condition. This…
Read More...As our lifestyle in the past few decades has slipped further into the realm of processed foods and high fat eating, certain health disorders are becoming more common. One of these, NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis), is expected to become the next global epidemic. This is not a condition to be trifled…
Read More...The pain caused by a kidney stone has been described as one of the worst that humans can suffer. Certainly those who have experienced one will never forget it. Unfortunately the prevalence of kidney stones is on a dramatic rise with stone presence doubling since the 1970s (4). One in ten Canadians will have a…
Read More...Sadly obesity is becoming the new norm in our societies with three out of five Canadians presently overweight (3). Between 62% and 75% of the world’s population now carry body fat levels that will impair their health and the number of obese people worldwide exceeds those who are underweight for the first time in human…
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