Any food in a box, can, or package;

If you can manage it, it’s even better to do vigorous aerobic exercise four to five times a week (an interval training program where you regularly vary your heart rate is ideal).

Dr. Hibbeln explained that there has been a thousandfold increase in the consumption of soy oil over the last century. In fact, 20 percent of all calories consumed in America are from soybean oil and therefore 9 to 10 percent of all our calories are from linoleic acid instead of the omega-3 fats, which we should be eating.

Today the only real sources of omega-3 fats are breast milk, wild fish and game, seaweed, algae, and eggs hatched from chickens fed only on flaxseeds and fish meal.

I would avoid all processed soy foods such as burgers, cheese, and bars—these have harmful health effects.

Functional Medicine (www.functionalmedicine.org) applies the science of systems biology in a practical setting.

takes up to six to ten months to fill up the tank for vitamin D if you are deficient. As mentioned above, you may need 5,000 to 10,000 IU a day

The average person consumes a gallon of neurotoxic pesticides and herbicides each year by eating conventionally grown fruits and vegetables.

This type of thinking is foreign to medicine and difficult for most of us to grasp. We are always looking for that one thing, that one factor we can blame and say aha! That’s it. But that will never happen.