Abundant Living Lifestyle Center & Health Foods

07/13/2026

A commentary published in JAMA is calling for the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans to be withdrawn and rewritten.

The reason: several of the authors behind the guidelines disclosed funding or compensation from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, the Texas Beef Council, the National Dairy Council, and the National Pork Board, among others.

Dr. Neal Barnard, who led the call, pointed out that the guidelines also skipped any consumer testing before being finalized and presented to the public as neutral science.

These aren't obscure guidelines. They shape school lunches, hospital menus, and nutrition advice given to millions of Americans every single year.

When the people writing the rules are being paid by the industries those rules are supposed to regulate, "science-based" starts to look like a stretch.

07/12/2026

07/12/2026

07/10/2026

After more than two decades studying the world's longest-lived populations, longevity researcher Dan Buettner has landed on a simple message: the single biggest thing most people can do for their lifespan is learn to cook whole, plant-based food at home.

Buettner, the National Geographic Fellow who coined the term Blue Zones, told CNBC he eats about 98 percent plant-based and no meat at all. He follows a roughly ten to twelve hour eating window with two meals a day, usually starting around 11 a.m. with a Sardinian minestrone loaded with three types of beans and several vegetables. He calls himself the "king of beans" and told GQ he aims for at least a cup or two a day, citing his own research showing bean-eaters tend to live about four years longer than those who skip them.

The contrast with the average American plate is stark. Buettner told GQ that people in the Blue Zones traditionally ate around 20 pounds of meat per year, compared with roughly 240 pounds in the United States. He links that gap to much of the country's heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and gastrointestinal cancers.

His latest cookbook, The Blue Zones Kitchen One Pot Meals, was released in September 2025 through National Geographic Books and centers on making that shift practical at home. His pitch is not restriction. It is flavor built from beans, greens, olive oil, herbs, and whole grains, on repeat.

07/09/2026

You dealt with the irregular periods in your twenties.
You moved on.

But now, at 52, you have prediabetes, a fatty liver finding, and sleep apnea.
And nobody has connected any of it.

It is not a string of bad luck.
It is one condition that medicine named wrong for 90 years.

Here is what was hiding in plain sight.

PCOS was named after a feature on an ovarian ultrasound.
But those 'cysts' are not actually cysts at all.
They are immature follicles that stalled because the real driver, excess insulin, was jamming the signal.

When cells in your muscle, fat, and liver stop responding to insulin, your body floods the bloodstream with more of it.
Your ovaries, still fully sensitive, read all that extra insulin as a loud signal to produce testosterone.
More insulin resistance means more insulin, which means more testosterone, which makes the insulin resistance worse.
The loop feeds itself quietly for decades.

A global consortium of 56 medical and patient organizations just officially renamed the condition to reflect this metabolic reality.
Nine decades late, but it finally points in the right direction.

The smallest step you can start today:
Ask your doctor for an oral glucose tolerance test, not just fasting glucose.
It catches the blood sugar spikes that PCOS drives long before other numbers move.

I wrote a full article with the science and how to start. Read it below 👇️

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07/09/2026

101-year-old nutrition expert shares his diet rules, lifestyle tips for a long life on.today.com/4hirJrS

07/08/2026

It is 7:15am.
You just finished breakfast.

For the next twenty minutes, glucose from that meal begins entering your bloodstream.

If breakfast was low in fiber, that glucose arrives fast.
Your pancreas rushes out a large wave of insulin to meet it.
Blood sugar spikes, then drops, sometimes below where it started.

By 10am you are already tired, reaching for coffee, eyeing something sweet.
That is not a willpower problem.
That is biology.

Here is what fiber does differently.
Fiber wraps around the carbohydrates in your food like a net around a ball.
Glucose has to work its way through that net before it reaches your blood.
The release is slower, steadier.
Insulin stays calm.
Blood sugar holds a gentle arc instead of a spike-and-crash.

That steady arc is what you feel as sustained energy at 10am, noon, and even 3pm.

Imagine you eat the same calories two mornings in a row, one with white toast, one with a bowl of oats, ground flaxseed, and berries.
The second morning, your glucose pattern on a CGM looks noticeably flatter and longer.
You feel the difference before lunch.

The tiny habit: add one tablespoon of ground flaxseed or chia seeds to whatever you already eat for breakfast.
One tablespoon.
That is the entry point.

This is exactly the kind of small habit we build together inside The Habit Healers, my insulin resistance reversal community.
CGM-guided, physician-led, one habit at a time.
Come join us below 👇️

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07/08/2026

07/05/2026

You drink your coffee first.
Then you make breakfast.
Then you sit down and start your day.

It feels like the most harmless routine in the world.

It's not a willpower problem. It's a timing problem.

Your body is already pushing blood sugar higher before you even open your eyes. A hormonal program runs every morning between four and eight AM, telling your liver to release glucose as wake-up fuel. Your muscles are also slightly less responsive to insulin at this point. So when caffeine arrives before food, it hits from three directions at once. It blocks the receptors your muscles use to pull sugar from your blood. It triggers adrenaline, which tells your cells to resist insulin. And it releases fatty acids that compete with sugar for entry into muscle cells. The result is that sugar stays in your blood longer after eating.

Researchers tested this directly. In one study, a night of mildly broken sleep alone did not change how the body handled glucose. But adding a cup of strong black coffee before the test raised the blood sugar response by roughly half.

One change you can make today: drink your coffee after breakfast, not before. Let your body get a head start on digestion first.

I wrote a full article with the science and how to start.

Read it below 👇️

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