Healthy Child

Advantages of Breastfeeding: Formula Contains Aluminum!

Advantages of Breastfeeding: Formula Contains Aluminum!

By | May 27, 2012 at 2:56 pm | 21 comments

Breastfeeding but thinking of quitting? If you worry about aluminum in vaccines, you may be surprised at how much aluminum is found in popular infant formulas.

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The Miracle Moment: How to help an autistic child step into the world

The Miracle Moment: How to help an autistic child step into the world

By | April 28, 2012 at 4:41 pm | 15 comments

Twenty years ago diabetes was assumed to be a genetic disorder. Now we understand that diabetes is a consequence of unhealthy diet and other lifestyle factors. Just as those of us physicians in the low-carb community currently use diet to prevent and even reverse diabetes and its complications, I believe we will soon see similar progress in treating and preventing autism.

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How to be Beautiful: Care About Your Kids

By | March 17, 2012 at 7:10 pm | 58 comments

This week I got a letter from a newlywed couple telling me how happy they were to learn the specific dietary changes they can make to better ensure the health of their future baby. Most people who read Deep Nutrition, I'm happy to say, wind up liking it. But every once in a while we get a hate mail or a negative review on Amazon explaining in explicit detail exactly why we should pack our bags and return to whatever corner of Hell we came from.

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Kate Middleton Versus Pippa: Who is the more beautiful sister?

By | December 29, 2011 at 6:11 pm | 17 comments

The headlines claim that Pippa might be even more beautiful than Kate. But based on her relative lack of dynamic symmetry, I have to predict that she is the less healthy of the two (all things in their diet being equal).

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The China Study: Does Avoiding Animal Protein in Pregnancy Help or Harm?

By | October 1, 2011 at 5:40 am | 24 comments

The China Study advises a vegan diet but author T. Colin Campbell also admits it cuts a woman's hormone levels so low that it stunts growth, delays puberty, and leads to early menopause. Dr Cate advises caution for anyone on a vegan diet.

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Brain-researchers seem to be misinterpreting their own data

By | December 8, 2010 at 6:08 am | 9 comments

Higher fat diets in pregnancy appears to benefit learning and immune system. Yet in spite of the evidence to the contrary the researchers concluded high-fat diets are harmful.

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Is a Nature Deficit Depressing kids?

By | August 15, 2010 at 4:55 am | 3 comments

Worried you child may be depressed? Want to help them? Take them to a beautiful place outside. Nature heals.

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Early Puberty: What does it mean for tomorrow’s women?

By | August 11, 2010 at 6:36 am | 5 comments

Abnormal sexual development from unclear cause, environmental changes suspected. According to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics, 1 in 10 girls in second and third grade, of Caucasian descent, showed stage 2 breast development (small mounds of tissue under...

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One more vital food source down the drain: The health effects of the BP oil spill

By | July 18, 2010 at 1:59 pm | 2 comments

When I first saw those helicopter shots of red oil plumes staining the ocean, my only thought was: How could any animal survive in that? As a person who loves animals, this tragedy is too awful to think about. But as a doctor concerned with the prevention of human illness, I...

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Humans as GMOs? New Vaccine Technology Alters our DNA

By | December 16, 2009 at 12:25 pm | 2 comments

[caption id="attachment_779" align="alignright" width="194"] DNA Vaccines Change us at a Cellular Level[/caption] I am not a vaccine skeptic. I think that most of our vaccines are safe enough for widespread utilization as long as they don't do anything stupid during the...

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Cholesterol Pills For Kids – Stop The Madness!

By | July 8, 2008 at 6:44 pm | 8 comments

I went for a job interview and was told that if I failed to get my patients LDL levels down to 100 (with drugs) "someone will sit down and talk with you."

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