Wednesday March 17, 2010 5:53 pm
Diet Center
First, before we embark on the subject of diet, let's first define what we mean. Diets are more or less a dirty word in American culture. Just saying the word conjures ups a distressing and difficult regimen of eating foods that are considered awful. That's not the scope of our diet section.

Merriam Webster's medical dictionary defines diet as:
a : food and drink regularly provided or consumed b: the kind and amount of food prescribed for a person or animal for a special reason.

We'll cover both of these definitions with the various articles that follow, but trust me, we're not going to cover the ridiculous thousands of diets that don't work. This is common sense information that anyone can use.
Articles In This Section:
  • Food Combinations
    by Dr. Gary Farr 6/2/2003
    When we eat what we eat has a lot to do with how much good we get from it. The proper combination of foods has had much said on it and there has been some controversy.

  • Free Newsletter
    by Dr. Gary Farr 7/22/2003
    Sign up for our FREE health newsletter from BecomeHealthyNow.com. The Healthy newsletter brings the latest research, news and ideas you can use, fun mini-quizzes and a listing of the live events and happenings on the BecomeHealthyNow sites and communities. You'll always be up to date on current health topics as the BecomeHealthyNow.com web site is continually updated.

  • Obesity Tied to Steady Dose of Hunger Hormone
    by Dr. Gary Farr 6/30/2004
    In thin people, levels of the hormone that makes you hungry -- ghrelin -- vary wildly throughout the day and peak at night. But overweight people maintain more constant levels of the hormone throughout the day and don't experience a nighttime spike.

  • The Atkin's Diet
    by Dr. Gary Farr 10/17/2003
    Diets high in sugar and refined carbohydrates like bread, pasta, cereal, and other mainly "low-fat" processed foods increase your body's production of insulin. When insulin is at high levels in the body, the food you eat can get readily converted into body fat, in the form of triglycerides (to top it off, high triglyceride levels in the body are one of the greatest risk factors for heart disease). Find out more.

  • The Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis
    by Dr. Gary Farr 6/25/2004
    I often tell my patients that the gastrointestinal tract is much like a carburetor in a car. Your digestive tract tract must take gasoline (your food), and then mix it with air (enzymes and other digestive juices). If this mixing process goes well, your car runs and doesn't cough or sputter. How efficiently your fuel burns determines to a large extent how many years you're going to get out of your car. Although a rather crude analogy, this principle does hold true for the human digestive tract. There are many points along the digestive where some "burning" process can go awry and cause seemingly unrelated problems elsewhere in the body. This article will discuss those various places and give you a very good detail of what can go wrong.

  • The Comprehensive Thyroid Assessment
    by Dr. Gary Farr 2/5/2007
    The Comprehensive Thyroid Assessment is a thorough analysis of thyroid hormone metabolism, including central thyroid gland regulation and activity, thyroid production and secretion, peripheral thyroid conversion, and thyroid autoimmunity. This test allows the practitioner to pinpoint common imbalances that underlie a broad spectrum of chronic illness.

  • The Free Stress Diet
    by Dr. Gary Farr 6/27/2003
    I'm not big on diets, when it meant in the sense that you've got to be on a weird eating plan. They don't work in the long term. But, the Free Stress Diet uses common sense. You should read this.

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