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Brain is 60 Percent Fat

Let’s all eat more fat! Yea! Can this be true?

David Perlmutter, MD, a leading board certified neurologist, recently published Grain Brain, a New York Times best-selling book that teaches us all how we can feed our brains and actively work to prevent Alzheimer’s.  Sounds fantastic, but hundreds of research studies bear it out. We are all fat heads!  60% of our brains are fat!   Dr. Perlmutter explains that humans have eaten diets high in fat and protein for millennia.  Our brains have evolved to flourish on this kind...

White Rose

Newsflash: England, 1941 – Policeman killed by a rose. What?

This unfortunate man developed an infection from a thorn and died due to lack of sufficient penicillin available at that time. Antibiotics, as we all know, can save our lives.  They fight infection and support our health.  Antibiotics attack bad bacteria while protecting us.   So, what’s new?  Remember the Human Microbiome Project? Scientists are discovering that some bacteria also keep us alive!  They break our food down to digestible bits of nutrients, detoxify poisons, nurture our immune systems, help to...

Passion for Patient Advocacy

Our founder, Karen Mercereau RN, has a feature article in Advance For Nurses (Click the article below to read a larger version)