Dr. Shawn's Blog

I’m excited to be attending and speaking at the Palm Oil Nutrition Week scientific conference in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia this week. The first few days will be devoted to scientific presentations about the health benefits of phytonutrients from red palm fruit, including tocotrienols, carotenoids, and flavonoids. I will be delivering a presentation tomorrow about the

Do you ever feel that you’re working harder and harder but still getting further and further behind in terms of your health, your stress levels, and your economic status? If so, you have a lot of company. Recent research shows that we’re working longer, enjoying our lives less, and dying sooner. A big part of

Last month, a large study in nearly 15,000 male physicians (the Physician’s Health Study II) found that a low-potency multivitamin (Centrum Silver) taken daily (for 11 years) significantly reduced the risk for cancer. Good news for multivitamin users – especially considering that these anti-cancer benefits were found for a very basic “grocery store” multivitamin. These

Many health-conscious people are familiar with the term “antioxidant” and understand that it refers to nutrients such as vitamins C and E (and many others) that help to protect your body from “free radicals” (highly-reactive oxygen molecules) created during the normal course of metabolism (basically, any time we breathe oxygen, we also create free radicals).

Two new studies – both published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition (JACN, vol. 31, no. 2, 2012) show how healthy nutrition habits can boost brainpower.   Being overweight is a well-known risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia – with people who are overweight experiencing a 74% higher risk for developing