Holistic Solutions - Nutrition and Lifestyle Counseling

Eating fruits and vegetables may help your body make its own aspirin. Benzoic acid,
a natural substance in fruits and vegetables, enables people to produce their own salicylic acid, the key component that gives aspirin its anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties.

Researchers found that people who pass through an entryway near the kitchen tend to eat 15 percent more than those who use the front door.

Oatmeal, citrus fruits and honey can boost your sex drive and improve fertility. Oats produce a chemical that releases testosterone into the blood supply, vitamin C improves sperm count and motility, and vitamin B from honey helps your body use estrogen, a key factor in blood flow and arousal. A perfect weekend breakfast when your mornings can be more leisurely!

Natural Health Magazine
February 2006

What’s wrong with this picture? Healthy young male enters pub and devours a FIFTEEN pound burger. Meet Brad Sciullo, the winner of the meat marathon held at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA. In under the five-hour time limit, Brad consumed a 15 pound burger with toppings and a bun that brought the total weight to 20.2 pounds. Let’s do the math. If a quarter pounder is one serving  this monstrous burger is 60 servings. Yikes!

What did the young man get for his public display of gluttony? $400, 3 T-shirts and a “burger hangover.” What could have been done with this same “burger of the century?”

A 15 pound burger could feed a family of 4 for 15 meals. What’s wrong with this picture?

April 7, 2009

In our busy helter skelter lives we are all eating on the run and eating out more. We’re all getting more conscious about our food choices: calories, fat content, trans fats and sodium. Following is the sodium content of some of your favorite fast foods. 

WARNING; the following statistics are SCARY! 

Burger King Enormous Omelet Sandwich: 1,940 mg. salt
Pizza Hut 4 All Individual Meat Lovers Pizza: 2,150 mg. salt
Cosi Individual Pepperoni Flatbread Pizza: 2,731 mg. salt
Macaroni Grill Chicken Parmesan Lunch: 2,030 mg. salt
Subway Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki Foot Long: 2,400 mg.salt
McDonald’ Kids 6 piece Chicken McNugget Meal with fries & 8 ounces of 1% milk 940 mg. salt
KFC Chicken and Biscuit Bowl: 2,420 mg. salt
Quiznos Tuna Melt, regular: 1,535 mg. salt 
Auntie Anne’s Glazin’ Raisin without butter: 460 mg. salt
Auntie Anne’s Original Pretzel: 930 mg. salt  Let’s put this into perspective. The American Heart Association recommends no more than 2,300 mg. of sodium per day while The Institute of Medicine is urging us to eat only 1,500 mg. A recent study posted by the British Medical Journal concluded that a 25 to 35 percent decrease in dietary salt cut cardiovascular risk by 25 percent.  Prepared or processed foods, ingredients that mean lots of salt include but are not limited to monosodium glutamate (MSG), baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), baking powder, (disodium phosphate found in some quick-cooking cereals), sodium alginate (often used in ice cream), sodium nitrate (used in cured meats), sodium benzoate (used as a preservative in many sauces and salad dressings), sodium propionate and others.   Is this frightening?   Please DON’T pass the salt.  

Dr. Rob, syndicated columnist  Bucks County Courier Times August 15, 2008

I don’t believe in semantics. I believe in symptoms and in treating the symptoms.
I believe in creative solutions.

ADHD has been misunderstood for many years. Children were judged and critized for behavioral problems. Parents of these children were judged and criticized as having poor parenting skills. With more awareness this stigma is slowly disappearing.

Wonderful!

Symptoms vary from one person to another and are usually treated with prescription drugs. Not so wonderful: the cost, the side-effects, the possibility of abusing the drugs.

Solution: Could it be as simple as diet modification to lesson the severity of ADHD symptoms? Could diet modification possibly lower the dosage for prescription drugs needed in more extreme cases of ADHD? Could diet modification possibly eliminate the necessity for prescription drugs in the less severe or borderline cased of ADHD?

Wouldn’t this be wonderful?

I believe it’s possible.

Bobbie Burkhart
Holistic Health Counselor
Holland PA

September 16, 2007
Bucks County Courier Times