Heart disease is not a Lipitor, Crestor or even an “anacetrapib” deficiency. It is a complex end result of multiple factors driven by our diet, fitness level, stress, and other lifestyle factors such as smoking, social connections, and, increasingly, environmental toxins.

The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.

Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.

The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

We are eating hybridized and genetically modified (GMO) foods full of antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, and additives that were unknown to our immune systems just a generation or two ago. The result? Our immune system becomes unable to recognize friend or foe - to distinguish between foreign molecular invaders we truly need to protect against and the foods we eat or, in some cases, our own cells. In Third World countries where hygiene is poor and infections are common, allergy and autoimmunity are rare.

Yet an estimated 99 percent of people who have a problem with eating gluten don't even know it. They ascribe their ill health or symptoms to something else-not gluten sensitivity, which is 100 percent curable.