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The staff at CBH practice carries on the work of Dr. Atkins’ medical legacy by combining traditional and complementary therapies to help achieve balanced health and improve quality of life.

08/09/2025

You’ve probably heard that you should avoid coconut oil because it’s high in saturated fat. Although it’s true that the type of fat in coconut oil is mostly saturated, it’s not true that you need to avoid it. Studies show that this type of oil has anti-inflammatory properties. It has been shown that the medium-chain triglycerides—the specific type of saturated fat in coconut oil—are more easily burned for energy than are other sources of fat. Studies done on animals show that coconut oil tends to reduce appetite and speed metabolism.

But won’t it raise cholesterol? No. Again, the type of saturated fat in coconut oil has been shown to reduce the risk for heart disease, not raise it. Unlike olive oil, this oil is stable when heated, making it ideal to use in cooking.

08/06/2025

Vegetables contain fiber, so they fill you up and keep you regular. Vegetables also contain important antioxidants, nutrients that protect your cells from oxidative damage. For each level of the diet, you’ll find a number of recipes that creatively sneak fiber-rich vegetables into everyday foods such as grilled cheese and even hamburgers. Add more veggies by rounding out lunch and dinner with side salads and heaping servings of steamed or sautéed broccoli, cauliflower, greens, or another veggie of your choice.

08/05/2025

Reactive hypoglycemia (postprandial hypoglycemia) refers to low blood sugar that occurs after a meal — usually within four hours after eating. This is different from low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) that occurs while fasting.
If you use insulin or other blood sugar lowering medications to treat diabetes, hypoglycemia after eating may mean that your medication dose needs to be adjusted.

For most people with reactive hypoglycemia, the actual cause isn't clear. But, the symptoms of this condition may relate to what food was eaten or variations in the timing of the food moving through the digestive system.

Other possible causes of reactive hypoglycemia include alcohol, certain surgical procedures (gastric bypass or surgery for an ulcer), inherited metabolic disorders and some tumors.

Generally, a medical evaluation is done to learn if symptoms are caused by low blood sugar and if so, whether symptoms get better when blood sugar returns to normal. Additional testing may need to be done if you have more-serious symptoms.

08/02/2025

Mushrooms help recipes taste better in place of salt because they contain glutamate ribonucleotides. Those compounds contribute a savory, umami taste with no ramifications for your blood pressure or heart disease risk. An entire cup of mushrooms has only 5 mg sodium! Mushrooms also make an excellent, satisfying substitute for red meat in any dish, eliminating calories, fat, and cholesterol from the equation.

Mushrooms are full of nutritional benefits and can make a great stand-in for meat in vegetarian dishes because of their complex, savory flavor and firm texture. Additionally, mushrooms are the only plant source of vitamin D (a nutrient many of us are deficient in) and one of the only types of widely available produce that contain significant amounts of selenium. The latter can help prevent cell damage. Many varieties are also thought to have immune-boosting and anti-cancer properties.

07/31/2025

Your body can't make its own calcium. It has to come from your diet and/or a supplement.

Your bones absorb calcium from your bloodstream. With plenty of calcium on board, you'll have enough circulating in your bloodstream to help protect you from a calcium deficiency. Healthy people typically have blood levels of calcium between 8.8 and 10.4 milligrams/deciliter.

In general, a deficiency is very low dietary intake of a vitamin or mineral that can result in a deficiency disease.

A calcium deficiency can result in osteoporosis or other calcium-related disorders. Hypocalcemia, a type of calcium deficiency, is defined as having a blood level of calcium less than 8.5 milligrams/deciliter.

A deficiency in calcium may not have symptoms. Osteoporosis, for example, can be sneaky. You may not know you have it until you break a bone. Similarly, the most severe form of a deficiency in calcium, hypocalcemia, may be symptomless.

But when it does cause symptoms, you might have:
- Burning or prickling feeling in the hands and feet
- Muscle cramps
- Excessive nervousness
- Headaches
- Muscle spasms in your hands, feet, arms, legs or face
- Numbness or tingling around the mouth, fingers and toes
- Dry, coarse skin
- Patchy hair loss, such as thinning eyebrows
- Fatigue
- General weakness
- An abnormal heart rhythm

See your doctor if you experience these symptoms. Signs of severely low blood calcium may include cases, hypocalcemia can cause kidney damage, depression, bipolar disorder, brain calcification, cataracts, congestive heart failure, seizures, burning and prickling sensation in the hands and feet, or coma.

07/29/2025

Heartburn is an uncomfortable burning feeling in your chest that can move up your neck and throat. This can be a symptom of many different conditions, including acid reflux, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and even pregnancy.

When you are experiencing heartburn, you may also have a bitter or sour taste in the back of your throat. Heartburn can last from a few minutes to several hours. It often feels worse after you eat or when you lay down too quickly after eating.

In most cases, heartburn can be treated at home with over-the-counter medications and changes to lifestyle habits that cause the feeling. Occasional heartburn is common and is typically not serious. However, if you have frequent and severe heartburn, reach out to your healthcare provider. This could be a sign of a chronic condition like GERD. GERD can lead to other serious conditions like esophagitis, Barrett’s esophagus and even cancer. Sometimes, your doctor may want to do an endoscopy to check for underlying medication conditions. An endoscopy is the examination of your digestive tract with a lighted flexible instrument.

Over-the-counter medications for heartburn typically include antacids and acid blockers.

07/24/2025

B vitamins are important for making sure the body’s cells are functioning properly. They help the body convert food into energy (metabolism), create new blood cells, and maintain healthy skin cells, brain cells, and other body tissues.

There are eight types of B vitamin, each with their own function:
* thiamin (vitamin B-1)
* riboflavin (vitamin B-2)
* niacin (vitamin B-3)
* pantothenic acid (vitamin B-5)
* vitamin B-6
* biotin (vitamin B-7)
* folate (vitamin B-9)
* vitamin B-12

Together, they are called the vitamin B complex.

B vitamins often occur together in the same foods. Many people can get enough B vitamins by eating a variety of nutrient-dense foods.

However, those who struggle to meet their daily needs can use supplements.

People may develop B vitamin deficiencies if they do not get enough of the vitamins from their diet or supplements. They may also have a deficiency if their body cannot absorb nutrients properly, or if their body eliminates too much of them due to certain health conditions or medications.

07/22/2025

Elevated insulin is the underlying cause of weight gain, unstable blood sugar, low blood sugar, mood swings, low energy levels, and many health conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, some cancers, and, in women, polycystic ovarian syndrome (a condition characterized by weight gain, infertility, and excess body hair). Elevated insulin is also to blame for metabolic syndrome, an increasingly common condition characterized by three or more of the following factors: abdominal obesity, elevated triglyceride levels, low HDL cholesterol, elevated blood pressure, and elevated fasting glucose levels. When insulin rises and stays elevated, it keeps you feeling hungry, and it stores excess carbohydrates, especially refined sugars, as body fat. As fat cells get larger, they require still more insulin to metabolize nutrients, which leads to even more fat storage and further weight gain. The more carbohydrates you consume, the higher insulin levels rise. This is why high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets actually provide the raw materials for weight gain.

07/21/2025

Fiber is a weight-loss powerhouse. This essential nutrient helps promote fullness, aids digestion, and stabilizes blood sugar levels.

According to the most up-to-date Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the adequate intake (AI) of fiber for adult men is 33.6 grams (g) per day, and 28 g for adult women. But most people in America do not meet this goal. The average fiber intake in the United States is 17 g, and only 5 percent of people meet the adequate daily intake.

When ingested, fiber slows the rate at which food moves through your digestive tract. This is one of the ways that fiber helps keep you feeling fuller for longer. Beyond that, most fibers cannot be fully broken down by the human body, which means the calories from those carbohydrates do not get taken into the bloodstream for use or storage.

07/20/2025

When you are stressed, you’re in overdrive. When you toss back a triple-shot espresso, you’re in overdrive. When you exercise beyond your body’s capabilities, you’re in overdrive. Overdrive is how you speed up the metabolism. This confuses a lot of people, because if they are struggling with excess weight, they assume that they want to speed up their metabolism.

This isn’t always the case. Staying in overdrive too often can outstrip your metabolic resources. Stress and lack of sleep, for example, cause the adrenal glands to overproduce the stress hormone cortisol and keep levels elevated. When cortisol increases, so does blood glucose, to provide your muscles with fuel should you need to run fast. The problem is that your muscle cells don’t need the glucose when you are responding to emotional stress or lack of sleep, so the hormone insulin increases to shuttle the excess glucose into your fat cells—usually the ones in your abdomen. In an overspent state, insulin does this too efficiently. Too much insulin causes blood glucose to drop too quickly. You crave the one thing that can quickly raise blood glucose: sugar. If you turn to sugar and fat—as most people under stress do—glucose rises, insulin rises, glucose falls. You’re hungry again.

07/15/2025

Water is a crucial component to the summer experience in more ways than you might think. Water accounts for about 60 percent of the human body, making it an essential fluid. Water drives physiological processes such as digestion and controls our body’s internal temperature through perspiration.

Warmer summer temperatures cause our bodies to work harder to stay cool, resulting in an increased loss of hydration. To prevent excessive fluid loss, drink a minimum of 64 ounces per day. Increase this number by 8 ounces with each added hour of physical activity.

07/10/2025

Two of the primary ways that diet affects PCOS are weight management and insulin production and resistance.

However, insulin plays a significant role in PCOS, so managing insulin levels with a PCOS diet is one of the best steps people can take to manage the condition.

Many people with PCOS have insulin resistance. In fact, more than 50 percent of those with PCOS develop diabetes or pre-diabetes before the age of 40. Diabetes is directly related to how the body processes insulin.

Following a diet that meets a person’s nutritional needs, maintains a healthy weight, and promotes good insulin levels can help people with PCOS feel better.

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Tuesday	8am - 7pm
Wednesday	8am - 4pm
Thursday	8am - 7pm
Friday	8am - 12pm

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