Nutrients: What Do They Do and What are They In (Part II)
B: Clifford Sonnie, M.D.
Last week we started to list a number of vitamins needed in the body and where you find them in your diet. This week I am going to continue to list vitamins and several minerals. Remember this list is by no means complete and if a vitamin or mineral has been omitted or forgotten I in no way meant to trivialize it or insult it. Just didn’t...
NUTRIENTS: WHAT DO THEY DO AND WHAT ARE THEY IN? (PART 1)
By: Clifford Sonnie, M.D., M.P.H.
I have said this before and it is plastered all over my clinic. The method by which I believe health is best attained is to detoxify the body first then replace what the body needs. Pretty simple concept. After detox, refill the tank. Here is where the nutritional supplements come in. It is a rescue, if you will and replenishes that...
Oh Nooooooooooo, I Can’t Feel My Lips!!
By: Clifford M. Sonnie, M.D., M.P.H.
Anyone who has had the fortune or misfortune to have dinner at my house knows that I love spicy foods. The hotter the better. I guess I developed this from my mother. She always had spicy foods at dinner and I remember grandma saying that the spicier the food the better it is for you. Well, as I found out she was right.
OIL: THE LUBRICANT OF LIFE
By: Clifford Sonnie, M.D., M.P.H.
Remember when the diet pyramid first came out. Oils (which are fat) were stuck near the top with instructions to use very sparingly if at all. Well nothing could be farther from the truth. Oils play a huge role in our health. Today we’ll talk about a couple types of oil.
First some science. I’ll try to make this painless....
OUT OF THE GARAGE AND INTO THE MEDICINE CABINET
BY: CLIFFORD M. SONNIE, M.D.
“All work and no play make’s Jack a dull boy.” Every so often I think it is good for the soul to read an article that doesn’t teach you anything and doesn’t make you so angry that you get a headache. Knowing this, I present a reprint of an article I found in my desk. It was written by a consumer advocate by the name of Mike Adams...
TOPPLING THE FOOD PYRAMID
By: Clifford Sonnie, M.D., M.P.H.
Anyone who knows me knows I don’t like diets. Unfortunately, too many people do. They want to be told when to eat, what to eat, how much to eat, etc. Well, that means following a very rigid menu and to me that is very difficult to do. Regardless, I often wonder what all these diets are based upon. Unfortunately, it is our friend, the...
RELAX!
By: CLIFFORD M. SONNIE, M.D., M.P.H.
First of all, I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a very Happy New Year!! Spent mine at my brother’s mooching an excellent meal. Don’t worry, I always do the clean up. Anyways, the day after Christmas I was jogging through Reagan Park and as I usually do, I think about what has gone before me during the...
Some Herbal Advice…
By: Clifford M. Sonnie, M.D.
I was cleaning my desk this weekend and reading all kind of journals I never asked for but get anyway. They usually line the bottom of my gecko’s cage or I just throw them away. One journal however, called “Alternative Therapies”, is an excellent journal. It is a peer review journal, meaning that other MDs and DOs read them and say...
SPRING CLEANING: HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH?
By: Clifford Sonnie, M.D.
This past weekend was so beautiful. The sun was shining and the weather was dry. Unfortunately, it also presented an opportunity to start cleaning up the yard from a long winter. As I was raking up leaves and debris from my yard, my neighbors had also joined in the fun. One was spraying a weed killer. Another was spreading a fertilizer/ weed...
Sugar: No Longer a Term of Affection
By: Clifford Sonnie, M.D., M.P.H.
I was watching TV a couple days ago and came across a commercial that I just could not believe. It was a man and a woman picnicking and the woman offers a delicious looking dessert to the man. He graciously declines saying that it has high fructose corn syrup which is bad for you. She then says that it can’t be bad, it is made from...
