See Julie Deardorff’s Chicago Tribune’s Health Column for Dr. Kohlstadt’s answer:
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/features_julieshealthclub/2008/08/why-are-apples.html#more

George Lundberg, MD introduces nutrition physician Dr. Ingrid Kohlstadt in a brand-new Medscape Video Editorial webcast entitled “Safeguarding Muscle During Weight Reduction.”
The Medscape Video Editorial can be viewed at this link:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/578880?src=rss
If you have comments, please post them on the above link’s comment blog.

March 23rd, 2008 - Chicago Tribune Health and Food Editor Julie Deardorff seached for answers on sweetners, and quotes Dr. Ingrid Kohlstadt M.D., M.P.H., Fellow of the American Colllege of Nutrtion as a Nutrition Doctor Specialist.

Good news! Progress on the next medical textbook entitled Food and Nutrients for Disease Managment is building momentum with chapters nearing completion.
This is the first medical nutrition book to emphasize whole foods over isolated nutrients.  A team of approximately sixty contributing authors will translate medical research on nutrients into practical dietary recommendations and offer evidence-based interventions for […]

Dr. Kohlstadt’s new medical textbook entitled “Food and Nutrients in Disease Management” is the feature of Julie Deardorff’s Health Colulmn in the the Chicago Tribune. Click on Read the rest of this entry (below) to follow the hyperlink to the article.
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/features_julieshealthclub/2007/12/writing-the-boo.html

What nutrition advice should doctors dispense?  This is not a simple question with a straightforward answer.  On one hand what people eat is a lifestyle choice reasonably beyond the scope of ever-shrinking doctor visits.  On the other hand, recent nutritional advances are proving integral to optimal treatment of many chronic diseases. 
Doctors who don’t bill a […]

Why start today, what you can put off until tomorrow? Today there is a cure and tomorrow there might only be chronic management. Take cholesterol for example.
Today – dietary fiber
Tomorrow – prescription bile acid sequestrants
Dietary fiber plays a role in lowering cholesterol. Soluble fiber in the gut binds the cholesterol building blocks called bile acids. […]

Emperor Motecuhzoma was the ruler of the Aztecs who mistook the Spanish conquistador Cortes to be a god. Motecuhzoma’s people felt betrayed by their leader and stoned him to death.
You may have heard the expression ‘Montezuma’s revenge.’ It’s a euphemism for traveler’s diarrhea. Been there. Had that. Oral rehydration salts, the water from a green […]

I recently attended a conference in Chicago where I got more insights into Olympic nutrition. Much of it is how nutrition controls inflammation and oxidation. Here are 4 practical take home messages for the athlete in all of us.
• Athletes send up to 100 times more oxygen to select muscles while exercising, than when at […]

My patients have found additional information on citrus and juice to be helpful. Even though citrus is acidic by pH, it does not give the bloodstream an acidic load. In fact, the fiber and vitamins make whole citrus alkalinizing in keeping with other fruits and vegetables. Unfortunately fruit juices are highly processed and sweetened so […]