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Straight, No Chaser: Your Guide to Fighting Childhood Obesity (Works for Adults, Too!)
Would you start your child on a fad diet? Of course not. Combating obesity means consistently applying principles that bear fruit (and include fruits over time). So you have an ove
Straight, No Chaser: Childhood Obesity
Here’s the thing. Adults have control over and choices about how to live their lives. In the overwhelming majority of cases, children do not. Yet, in the overwhelming majorit
Straight, No Chaser: Healthy Eating Tips
If you want to eat healthy, you really must learn about and try to eat in accordance with the Healthy Eating Plate. It doesn’t get more complicated that that, and you shouldn’
Straight, No Chaser Vlog: Fiber and Weight Loss
In case you missed it in the hoopla of the launch of www.jeffreysterlingbooks.com and Behind the Curtain: A Peek at Life from within the ER, the Straight, No Chaser vlog (video blo
Straight, No Chaser: Superfoods – The Battle of Antioxidants and Free Radicals
People engage in a lot of fads and off the wall activity to pursue health instead of following tried and true principles of basic science. One thing that I wish didn’t fit t
Straight, No Chaser: What Do You Know About Your Drinking Water?
If I asked you what public health innovation was responsible for saving the most lives over the last century, you likely might think that antibiotics or perhaps immunizations wo
Straight, No Chaser: Treating Your Gas and Gas Pains
So… you have problems with gas. What are you to do? Well, given that gas production is a natural occurrence, it’s not like you’re going to eliminate having gas (no pun intend
Straight, No Chaser: Constipation (Part 2)
You had so many questions about constipation, it was too hard to get everything out in one sitting (or was that setting)… This Straight, No Chaser addresses treatment conside
Straight, No Chaser: Constipation (Part 1)
If you remember the Al Bundy character from the TV show Married With Children, you know much of what you need to know about constipation (and hemorrhoids for that matter). When it
Straight, No Chaser: When Eating Goes Wrong, Part II – Bulimia
If you read Part I of this conversation on eating disorders (anorexia nervosa), you will recall that eating disorders are a mix of an abnormal body image combined with abnormal be
Straight, No Chaser: When Eating Goes Wrong, Part I – Anorexia
Simply put, our society doesn’t do the job it should in promoting a normal image of health at either end of the spectrum. The typically promoted American ideal of beauty sets
Straight, No Chaser: Let's Boost Your Metabolism
It would be improper for me to have dragged you through the mud for three days and depressed you into thinking you can’t improve your situation. Hopefully, you’re not f
Straight, No Chaser: Healthy, Sustainable Weight Loss – Let's Get Started
How to Lose Weight, and What is Healthy Weight Loss (AKA, How Much, How Soon and How)? Let’s start with the How. Commercial voice: “You should contact your physician before st
Straight, No Chaser: Diet and Nutrition Tips
If you’re serious about keeping your New Year’s resolutions, so are we. Today, we move from explaining how to eat (as we did here), to giving you practical steps and choices to
Straight, No Chaser: Do You Even Know How To Eat Healthy?
We’re still in New Year’s resolutions mode! Previously we introduced you to why you exercise and we discussed how to start. Today’s Straight, No Chaser is about your die
Straight, No Chaser: Artificial Sweeteners
It’s always struck me as somewhat odd when people approach me with concerns about sugar substitutes. What I mean by that is my first response is something akin to “Whatever you
Straight, No Chaser: Moving Toward a Vegetarian Diet
Ok… I’m glad to have finally come across a diet option that has struck a nerve. The post on principles of vegetarianism has raised a lot of questions, and I’ll take this spac
Straight, No Chaser: An Introduction to Vegetarian Diets
Today is World Vegan Day. If you are on a vegetarian diet, congratulations to you, but if you’re not, you still should be interested in the principles that make a vegetari
Straight, No Chaser: Malnutrition
Do you know someone so poor that eating is a constant concern? Do you have a child who is a finicky eater? Have you ever been concerned that your child might become malnourished
Straight, No Chaser: Cholesterol Awareness
Most people know just enough about cholesterol to be able to do something about it should they choose. Still, seventy-one million American adults have abnormally high cholesterol,
