Tag: John Tilden

  • How to avoid getting sick using the advice of John Tilden

    In the recent Success Magazine in Dr. Mehmet C. Oz and Dr. Michael F. Roizen’s column A Healthy You, a reader asked “how can I avoid getting sick?” Their response? Wishy-washy and mis-guided. There are no magic bullets, they say, but you should wash your hands and get a flu shot, and surround yourself with…

  • John Tilden Took a Tough View on Health and Wellness, One that is Needed Today

    He focused heavily on diet, but his writings on diet bled into morality and constituted an overall way of being. He didn’t mince his words and created many enemies, but his writings and logic are sound.

  • The Gout Diet (How to eat during and after the gout)

    I suppose it was inevitable. Years ago, sitting at a Brazilian Steakhouse with friends, I joked that I was busy getting “The Gout” as I shoveled bite after bite of steak into my mouth and washed it down with a mojito and mashed potatoes. That was before I had a full-blown case of gout. After…

  • What will it take to break you?

    I was a big fan of David Carradine’s character in Kung Fu the Legend Continues. He was so cool, composed, and collected. One episode I really liked featured John Saxon guest starring as a bad guy running a work camp. Kwai Chain Caine gets himself imprisoned and is instrumental in getting people out (of course).…

  • Ben Franklin Eating Advice

    If you’ve been following my blog, you’ve noticed I’ve been paying more attention to diet. I started reading Tilden and his rules of eating, and then quickly realized I had a food addiction. Awareness is always the first step. Then, it helps to seek out motivation that encourages you to change in the direction you…

  • Eating in A Whole, New Way

    Eating plays a huge role in our culture. What we eat and how we eat is so habituated that trying to change is hard. But if you’re getting sick, getting fat, getting tired, etc. the first place to look is your diet. Distinguishing Appetite From Hunger I was eating on auto-pilot before. At 11 a.m.,…