Artificial Sweeteners – The Non-Sweet Truth
This article was originally published as an op-ed in The Jerusalem Post on 10 Aug. 2023: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-754209 Over the last several months, there has been a deluge of health news in the mainstream media. From new studies confirming links between diet and heart disease to hormone replacement therapy’s association with Alzheimer’s disease, the media has been [...]
Besides Diet and Exercise…Sleep!
This article was originally published as an op-ed in The Jerusalem Post on 23 July 2023: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-752042 With all of our emphasis on healthy eating and exercise, it is easy to forget that there are actually 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine. The other four are: not using substances like tobacco, alcohol and drugs, managing stress, good [...]
Making History
This article was originally published as an op-ed in The Jerusalem Post on 28 June 2023: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-747957 History is about to be made here in Jerusalem. It’s a “first-ever” event and it is far more significant that one might think. I’m talking about the first-ever Whole-Food, Plant-Based (WFPB) conference for kosher consumers. Before we talk about [...]
There are no shortcuts
This article was originally published as an op-ed The Jerusalem Post on 13 June 2023: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-746056 “It’s déjà vu all over again”—Yogi Berra This story seems to play itself out repeatedly. Will this have the same ending? Is this really the answer to the overweight and obesity epidemic? This time, it comes in the form an [...]
The Cost of Health
This article was originally featured as an op-ed in The Jerusalem Post: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-743154 Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food—Hippocrates The Food Revolution Summit is a yearly event dealing with the direct relationship between food and the diseases, both physical and mental. A frightening statistic mentioned this year is that [...]
Is it all or nothing?
This article was originally published in The Jerusalem Post on 4 May 2023: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-742002 “The doctor of the future will give no medication but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease”—Thomas A. Edison There is always resistance to change. We are, unfortunately, creatures [...]