Riordan Clinic Blog Articles

Recipe: Salmon with Garlic “Cream” Sauce Over Cauliflower Rice

Posted on April 9, 2024 This recipe is a testament to the balance between health and taste, proving that dietary changes can indeed be delicious and embraced ...

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The Complex Web of Senior Dementia Care: Gen X Style

Posted on March 12, 2024 By Staci Moore, Guest Columnist The role of a caregiver in today’s society often falls on the shoulders of the so-called sandwich ...

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Intermittent Fasting: Is it Healthy? Does it Work? Is it Dangerous?

Posted on January 5, 2024 By Dr. Jeremy Webster Obesity is a big problem today. The CDC estimates the adult obesity rate in the United States to be around 35%, ...

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Intermittent Fasting: An Enduring Path to Ideal Weight and Better Overall Health

Posted on January 5, 2024 By Dr. Ron Hunninghake, MD While there has been much discussion about prescriptions for weight loss and better metabolic health, it is ...

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Food as Medicine: How a Metabolic Plan Can Elevate Your Health

Posted on January 3, 2023 By Dr. Kirsten West, ND, LAc, FABNO When I design a nutrition plan for my oncology patients, it is individualized based on their ...

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Metabolic Syndrome Increases Risk of Health Problems

Posted on November 1, 2022 By: Michael (Mike) Shaw, PA-C, ABAAHP Metabolic syndrome is a group of conditions that can increase the risk of health problems such as ...

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Patient Advises Others to “Be Curious” After Potentially Fatal Autoimmune Diagnosis

Posted on August 1, 2022 By Melody Spurney Scleroderma started small for Denise Douty, 49, of Wichita. Her fingers felt funny after scraping her windshield on a ...

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Lifestyle and Environmental Factors may be Causing Increase in Autoimmune Disease

Posted on August 1, 2022 Dr. Tereza Hubkova, MD, ABIM, ABIHM, IFM, discusses autoimmune diseases in this issue of Health Hunters. She is a strategic partner of ...

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Riordan Clinic Seeks Whole Person Balance in Autoimmune Treatments

Posted on August 1, 2022 By Melody Spurney When it comes to autoimmune diseases, Riordan Clinic providers follow a functional medicine model of searching for ...

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Colon Cancer in Young Adults

Posted on April 4, 2022 Author: Dr. Ron Hunninghake, MD The star of the movie Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman, died at age 43 of early-onset colon cancer after ...

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Foods that Support a Healthy Immune System

Posted on December 9, 2020 If you’ve been to Riordan Clinic as a patient or are a regular reader of the Health Hunters newsletter, then you already know how much ...

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Is Medically Supervised Weight Loss Right For You?

Posted on August 4, 2020 A poll conducted in 2018 estimated that one-half of all adults in the United States are on a diet at any given point during the year. ...

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Microgreens Can Boost Your Food

Posted on July 1, 2020 Author: Loralie Tangen Good Health. If you have it, you might take it for granted. If you don’t, it may become one of your highest ...

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What Real Health Means to Me – Erin

Posted on June 4, 2019 Author: Erin Manning, MBA After reading the “What Real Health Means to Me” column for the past year and a half it’s apparent – ...

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The Ketogenic Diet, Is it Right for Me?

Posted on February 5, 2019 It seems that every few years a new fad diet comes along and everyone jumps on the bandwagon. The newest diet to hit the scene is the ...

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Lechtins: The Foods You Are Eating That Are Making You Fat, Inflamed, and Tired

Posted on November 1, 2017 By Dr. Anne Zauderer We live in an incredible time in history. At no other point has life been so comfortable for humans. We don’t have ...

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Beating the Sugar Blues

Posted on February 1, 2015 By Ron Hunninghake, M.D. “Beating the Sugar Blues” is a book on hypoglycemia published in 2001. Two MDs, Lincoln and Eaddy, made the ...

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Obesity and the Risk of Cancer

Posted on September 1, 2014 By Nina Mikirova According to the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria, a BMI greater than or equal to 25kg/m2 is overweight, while ...

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Sugar, Obesity, and Pain

Posted on June 1, 2013 By Ron Hunninghake, M.D. Why do modern nutritionists want to deprive us of sugar? Are they just mean? Who would “steal candy from a ...

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The HCG Rx+ Life Care Plan: A Prescription for Better Health

Posted on January 1, 2012 By Meg Fuson, R.N. This is the beginning of a new year and the beginning of new resolutions. In past years, most of us spend the winter ...

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Introducing the Riordan Clinic HCG Weight Loss Intervention

Posted on January 1, 2011 By Penny Lasater It’s the beginning of a new year and resolutions are on every ones’ mind. A 2002 report, published in the Journal of ...

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Preventing Kidney Stones

Posted on May 1, 2009 By Donald R. Davis, Ph.D. In the United States about one in seven men and one in fifteen women will be affected by kidney stones during ...

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Healthy and Smart Vegetarian Eating

Posted on May 1, 2005 By Donald R. Davis, Ph.D. Throughout human history, some persons have chosen vegetarian diets for philosophical, health, and economic ...

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Natural Fat Yes, Added Fat No

Posted on May 1, 2002 By Donald R. Davis, Ph.D. We all get daily messages -overt and subtle-that dietary fat is bad. Low-fat foods are in, and high-fat foods ...

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Five a Day for Better Health

Posted on March 1, 2002 By Melvin D. Epp, Ph.D. As a health incentive, during the month of November 2001, each Center staff member was encouraged to focus on ...

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Food for Thought for Kids

Posted on September 2, 1998 By Donald R. Davis, Ph.D. Can the typical diets of American children impair their learning, IQ, and behavior at school and home? The ...

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ADD, ADHD, and Other Improbable Diagnoses

Posted on May 2, 1997 By Hugh Riordan, M.D. All too often in standard medical approaches, when a symptom complex is given a name, in depth thought about the ...

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The Marvels of Whole Foods

Posted on July 2, 1996 By Donald R. Davis, Ph.D. Whole foods are foods that once lived, eaten without broad changes in their nutrient content. They are ...

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Researchers Find a Key to Coronary Artery Disease

Posted on October 1, 1995 By Richard Lewis Insufficient levels of essential fatty acids (EF A) in the blood are a key risk factor for coronary artery disease ...

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Phytochemicals – Plant Food Chemicals That Prevent Cancer

Posted on May 23, 1995 By Donald R. Davis, Ph.D. For over 100 years, “phytochemical” was an obscure, scientific word meaning “plant ...

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Getting Over Gas, Bloat, and Embarrassment

Posted on April 23, 1995 Excerpts from a presentation by Ron Hunninghake, M.D. Gas: A fluid such as air that has neither independent shape nor volume, but ...

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Category: Diet