Dr. Cates

What can you do this holiday season to lower your intake of sweets? You’ll find them in just about everything. From succulent candy, sodas and snack foods to sweetened medicines. They also appear in drinks marketed to kids.  Most significantly, artificial sweeteners are found in many products marketed for people with diabetes. They are commonly known ...

For diabetes health, what seafood should you eat? What seafood should you not eat? Long considered a healthy alternative to red meats, many fish types are actually listed as contaminated foods. If you have a penchant for seafood, but are interested in your health, it’s time to pay attention. Fish can be both a health food ...

Will you make the change? Remember the food pyramid? It was hard to miss that colorful, triangle-shaped diagram on the back of cereal boxes, printed in health books, and posted in the halls of clinics. Well, the food pyramid is no more. It is history. The food pyramid has given way to a new plate MyPlate, ...

What Can You Do to Fight Allergies This Fall? Everyone will agree on this single point: allergies are no fun. But what are your options? Live in a place free of all aggravates? Through my experience as a naturopathic physician, I’ve discovered ten effective ways to ward off fall allergies. These may not be as exciting or ...

How can you get involved and raise awareness of celiac disease? October is Celiac Awareness Month. The fact that we have an annual recognition month is a sign that this disease is an important medical condition worth knowing about and understanding how it may affect people with type 1 diabetes. What is Celiac Disease? Celiac disease and ...

Are You Satisfied with Your Daily Energy Level? In our sleep-deprived, fast-paced culture, we tend to run on the fuel of caffeine and slog through each day in a fog of fatigue. Clearly, it is an unhealthy way to live. During the fall season as the sun rises later, it becomes harder to wake up and ...

What can you do to stay healthy this fall? As constant as the change in season and the return to school, so is the flu season. If you’re bracing yourself for the fall cold, resolve not merely to brace yourself, but to defend your body. Here’s a how-to guide to staying healthy this season. Wash ...

Every fall school starts again, the weather gets cooler and schedules change. Leaves transform and then, the inevitable happens: cold and flu season strikes. Here are five tips to help you and your family stay healthy this school season. A Natural Approach to Staying Healthy As you know, plenty of over-the-counter choices exist to combat viruses, ...

For a person with diabetes, a wide array of devices, monitors and testing apparatuses exist to help you manage your disease. However, one of the most simple and effective means to stay in control is monitoring the kind of food you put in your body. Eating right and getting the essential nutrients you need can ...

Top Foods to Enhance Health Good food is important, especially for someone with diabetes. But what are the top foods that will enhance your health? That’s where the issue of healthy eating tends to be less clear. Some insist on following the Food Pyramid. Others live by a vegan diet. Everyone talks about “fruits and ...