Koren Wellness Articles

Longing for weight loss: are you fat? Oh my! That’s not a very politically polite thing to say, is it? Let’s rephrase that, are you pleasingly plump? A bit pudgy? Do more parts jiggle than you’d like? As Rodney Dangerfield once said, “Do you leave potholes when you jog? When you’re given a menu at…

Do Kellogg’s® Corn Flakes prevent masturbation? Processed food, especially corn flakes, were developed by health reformers for very specific purposes. Intrigued? Read on. Processed food: The origins of an early breakfast food John Harvey Kellogg, MD was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan. It was originally founded by members of the…

Alex Trebek, 78, is the popular host of Jeopardy. With over 10 million viewers Jeopardy is one of the most successful game shows of all time. But most important right now, Mr. Trebek isn’t hosting a game; his life is in danger. On Wednesday, March 6, 2019, Mr. Trebek revealed that he’s been diagnosed with…

The Perfect Diet for Humanity: Part 2 The “Charles Darwin” of Nutrition In our previous post about nutrition we were introduced to Weston A. Price who, with his wife Florence, traveled extensively in the 1930s to examine the health of native populations in isolated parts of the world that still were largely untouched by modern…

The Perfect Diet for Humanity: Part 1 For Me It Began with A Simple Question Is there a perfect diet for humanity? How can we find it if it exists? I’m sitting in my dentist’s office and wondering, “Why do so many people need their wisdom teeth removed today?” My parents didn’t have their wisdom…

What is pasteurized, homogenized milk? You keep hundreds or even thousands of cows fed corn, grain and other unnatural foods in a big holding pen so they are stressed and sick much of the time and therefore you have to give them antibiotics and other drugs. Then you mix all their milk together and boil it…