Healthy Alternatives to Breastfeeding

Healthy Alternatives to Breastfeeding

Editor’s note: CHEK Faculty Member Angie Chek, a certified nutritionist with a B.A. in Biology and the mother of a healthy little boy, often receives questions from her clients about challenging issues they face in raising their children in an unhealthy world....
Flatten Your Stomach With a Swiss Ball

Flatten Your Stomach With a Swiss Ball

Everyone wants a flat stomach but if you think the best way to get one is by doing sit-ups or crunches, I have a BIG surprise for you! Crunches primarily work the large outer muscles of the core (the rectus abdominis and the external obliques). When overdone or...
Eating Animals: A Moral Question

Eating Animals: A Moral Question

There is a significant portion of the world’s population who subscribes to vegetarianism in various forms, and for a variety of reasons. Chief among the reasons, in my experience working with vegetarians from around the world, is their desire not to be cruel to...
How to Tell Good Science From Bad

How to Tell Good Science From Bad

We are immersed with so much information every day from the news, the Internet and even our social media about the latest modern breakthroughs in science and health. How can we tell the good science from the bad? It’s a struggle, no matter if you’re a...
Sugar is the New Fat

Sugar is the New Fat

For too long, health experts have believed eating too much fat was the primary catalyst for serious diseases like diabetes and obesity, or as Dr. Mark Hyman likes to call it “diabesity.” However, people are starting to understand the real root of their...