by Mo-Han Fong | Apr 16, 2019
Hormones are critical chemical messengers in our body responsible for regulating many body functions and metabolic processes. Hormones can work synergistically together to promote certain function in our body and yet they can also work antagonistically (i.e., against)...
by Mo-Han Fong | Apr 2, 2019
In my previous two blogs (Simple Guidelines for Health Eating, Are Carbs and Sugars All Bad), I summarized the latest scientific evidence from clinical research on what a healthy composition and sources of macronutrients (i.e., carbohydrates, fats, proteins) should be...
by Mo-Han Fong | Jan 25, 2019
Ketogenic (or keto) and paleo diets are two recent carb-restricted dietary trends that are claimed to provide health benefits including weight loss, improving biomarkers associated with heart disease and type 2 diabetes (e.g. triglyceride levels, blood pressure, blood...
by Mo-Han Fong | Jan 14, 2019
You may have heard or read about various diets that claim to be good for health including low carb diet, low fat diet, Paleo diet, ketogenic diet, etc. These various information and health claims can be confusing and sometime contradictory to one another. Hence, I...
by Mo-Han Fong | Jan 10, 2019
Many chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes; hypertension (high blood pressure) and heart disease; age-related cognitive decline including dementia and Alzheimer’s disease; and cancers may be thought of as inevitable part of aging. Although statistically, the...
