What To Do If You Are Bitten By A Tick

What To Do If You Are Bitten By A Tick

Tick season is in full-swing. Last week, my son found a tick embedded in his skin after a camping trip. Everyone in my family is well aware of my father’s missed diagnosis and years’ long battle with Lyme disease and it’s co-infections. It brutalized his health for years. Needless to say the fear was significant…

Is Lowering Cholesterol Good For Your Health?

Is Lowering Cholesterol Good For Your Health?

Growing up at a time where “low fat” was the latest nutrition advice, eggs were vilified for their “high” cholesterol content and butter was considered contraband because of its saturated fat. I wasn’t the only one who suffered from that wholly misguided and frankly deceptive advice. What was the result of this low fat, low cholesterol advice on a national level? The nation experienced a tsunami of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and neurodegenerative disease.