The thoughts on these pages are my own opinions which reflect the research and writings of authors by whom I have been inspired. After reading Gary Taub’s book, Good Calorie, Bad Calorie, and William Davis book, Wheat Belly, I changed my personal approach to nutrition 180 degrees.  I now eat a high (healthy) fat, low carbohydrate diet. My weight remains normal and my health and well being has remained excellent after the changeover from a low calorie, low fat diet. These compelling books and the research behind them, radically changed my thinking about how to help patients improve their health.

About 70% of our population has the genetic background for a condition known as the Metabolic Syndrome. In this condition,  The body becomes increasingly resistant to insulin. Excess insulin is produced because of this resistance, eventually leading to high blood sugars, abnormal blood fats, and marked increase in risk for many diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, dementia and fatty liver disease. It is for those folks with markers for potential metabolic syndrome that I have put together this web site.

The idea that FAT is bad for us has been drilled into our collective psyche for 30 years. In fact, for the first twenty five years of my medical career, I tried to convince patients to eat the lowest amount of of dietary fat they could manage. I told them to eat mostly whole grain and other high carbohydrate foods instead. While I ate this type of diet and lost weight (mostly because of my genetic makeup) I watched many patients follow my advice and get heavier and heavier. I couldn’t understand why that happened. Despite following my advice (which worked for me) patients often needed more and more medicine as blood pressure and diabetes worsened. Enlightened, finally, by the work of several authors mentioned herein, I changed course. For the last four years, I have instructed patients to follow low carbohydrate diets  and watched them lose weight easily and often reduce or eliminate medications for high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. Very Exciting for me, too!

Listen to an excellent short video about carbohydrates here.

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