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  • About
    • You’ve Just Taken the First Step to Health: About Your Health Forum
    • YHF Terms of Use & Privacy Policy
    • Media Coverage featuring Dr. Cirino, Founder Your Health Forum
    • Bio and Contact Dr. Cirino
  • Achieving Weight Loss
    • Intermittent Fasting: A Detailed Guide for Beginners
    • Stop and Treat your Prediabetes using the Ketogenic Diet
    • Overcoming Cravings with Healthy Snacking 101
    • The Calorie Challenge: Letting go of it on your Health Journey
    • The Benefits of Weight Loss: A Work in Progress
    • Childhood Obesity: Understanding and Addressing a Looming Crisis
    • When Your Mind Stands in the Way
    • The Last Diet I ever had to go on: A personal account of my journey toward wellness
    • Homeostasis and the Body
    • Behavioral Loops and Eating
    • Obesity: A Health Appraisal
    • The Journey Begins
  • Path to Wellness
    • The Liver: What you Should Know About Keeping It Healthy
    • Health and the Structure of Optimal Health and Aging: A Fractal Model
    • The Road to Longevity: Leveraging Homeostasis to Slow Cellular Aging
    • Finding Health: The History of an Elusive Goal (part 1)
    • Finding Health: The History of an Elusive Goal (part 2)
    • The Fractal Whisperer: Musings on health
    • On the climb to wellness: Surpassing health and fitness plateaus
    • The Scoop on Sleep
    • Atrial Fibrillation: When can it be the Tip of an Iceberg?
    • Cognitive Dysfunction Tied to Chronic Inflammation
    • Trauma and Chronic Disease
    • The Art of Medicine
    • Protecting Your Brain: Aging and Brain Health
    • Back to the Forest: The Health Benefits of Shinrin-yoku
    • Polypharmacy: Navigating Risk and Benefit in a pill-taking society
    • Fractals, the Golden Ratio and Your Health (part I)
  • Brain Health
    • Your Brain on Smartphones: How Overuse Could be Hazardous to Your Health
    • Exploring the Causes of Chronic Fatigue: A Collaborative Approach
    • Smartphone Use During Quarantine: Ways to keep it in Check
    • The Brain on Love: The Neuroscience of Romantic Love
    • How to Prevent The First (and Next) Stroke
    • The Power of Love in Recovery: the neuroscience of addiction
    • Aromatherapy: More than meets the Nose?
    • Pattern Thinking and Bias in Medical Diagnosis
    • The Unstoppable Determination of the Mind
    • Understanding your Readiness for behavior change
  • Health In a Nutshell
    • In a Nutshell: 5 Steps to Prevent a Stroke
    • In a Nutshell: Protect Yourself from Viral Infections (+ COVID-19)
    • In a Nutshell: Healthy Parent-Healthy Child
    • In a Nutshell: Make a Home for Your Microbiome
    • In a Nutshell: Protect Your Brain!
    • In a Nutshell: The Last Diet
    • In a Nutshell: Making Sleep a Health Priority
    • In a Nutshell: Sleep Disorders
    • In a Nutshell: Nature Therapy
  • Infectious Diseases
    • COVID-19 Resources
      • The COVID-19 Pandemic Exposes Health Equity Gaps in the US
      • The COVID-19 Pandemic Exposes Health Equity Gaps in the US
      • Read at Your Own Risk: Being Media Savvy during COVID-19
      • COVID-19 and Living situations: Quarantine Buddies, Shelter Lovers, and Lending a Friend in Need a Living Space
      • Ways to Move Toward Health and Away from Severe COVID-19
      • Nurturing the Resilient Spirit: Ways to support Mental Wellness During the COVID-19 Quarantine
      • Igniting the Spark: How Zoonotic Viruses Jump Species
      • COVID-19: Amid the Rising Caseload in the United States, the Country Braces Itself
      • Fear in the Age of Coronavirus: Reasons why COVID-19 is hitting our self-preservation nerve
      • COVID-19 Questions and Answers
      • In a Nutshell: Protect Yourself from Viral Infections (+ COVID-19)
      • Pandemic COVID-19: Applying Early Lessons Learned
      • COVID-19: Prelude to a Pandemic
      • COVID-19: Tips to Understanding the (Next) Pandemic
      • COVID-19: Can a novel coronavirus epidemic be contained?
    • ID Case Challenge
      • About: Case of the Month
      • Case Report: 37 year old with injection drug abuse and endocarditis
      • Educational Case Study: COVID-19 Patient, Ineffective Hydrochloroquinine Tx
      • Case Report: An Incidental Finding
      • Case Report Question: 18 Year Old With Increasing Neck Mass
      • Case Report: 51 year old man with worsening pneumonia while hospitalized
      • Case Presentation: 66 year old with persistent cough after 3 weeks ago
      • Case Report: 55 year old man with fever and pelvic pain
      • 59 year old with Meningitis, Lung Cancer, Confusion, and Brain Lesions
    • The Human Microbiome: Unlocking the Key to Health
    • COVID-19 Resources Page: Hyperlinked Articles and Questions
    • 6 Ways to Protect Yourself From Pneumonia
    • Wellness and Infection Prevention: 10 Tips to Steer Clear of Infections
    • Respiratory Infections and Antibiotic Decision-making
    • Guidelines for Antibiotic Decision-making
    • MRSA Infection: Questions and Answers
    • Factors Associated with an Increase in Sexually Transmitted Disease Rates
    • FLU SEASON 2019-2020: BRACE YOURSELVES FOR AN ACTIVE SEASON
    • Update on Flu Season 2018-2019: A mild season but never mild enough
  • Natural Foods
    • New: Nutrition and Natural Food Recipes
    • The 100-plus Year History of Vegetable Oils: How They Went Under the Heart Health Radar
    • Good Carbs vs. Bad Carbs: How to Make the Right Choice for Your Health
    • Overcoming Cravings with Healthy Snacking 101
    • One Ingredient Ice Cream
    • Air fryer Whole Fish Recipe
    • Hacking Healthy Eating with Frozen Vegetables
    • Orange-Banana Homemade Marmalade
    • Eggplant Mini-Pizzas
    • Spotlight on Swiss Chard
    • Easy Bok Choy Recipe
    • Potato, Chicken Sausage, and Kale Skillet Meal
    • 10-minute Lunch: Broccoli, Egg and Couscous Bowl
    • Needs a Healthy and Quick Snack? Green Beans with Sesame and Soy Sauce in 10-minutes
    • Green Bean Pesto “Pasta” Recipe
  • Contests
    • Stroke Awareness Children’s Art Contest
    • The Living Book Project
      • The Living Book Project: Sample
    • (2nd) CoV-ART Children
    • Children’s Art Contest
    • CoV-ART General Art Contest
    • Cov-ART Photo Contest Gallery
  • Books
    • New COVID-19 Book for Children: Pandemic Cory: Confessions of a Novel Viral Gangster
    • New Book Release: Nanna After the Stroke
    • Detective Sammy and the Sock Thief *New
    • Meike and the Microbiome Bunch *New*
    • Pepe Finds His Way *Free*
    • Meike and the Microbiome Bunch *New Book Release*
    • Art and the Brain in the age of Pandemics *Future E-Book*
      • Art and the Brain in the Age of Pandemics *Introduction Sample*
  • Perspectives
    • Why a Generalist Specialist is Crucial for Excellent Care
    • The Smoldering Fire: Navigating through Diagnostic Challenges
    • Finding Wellness *Future book*
      • Health and Wellness: A Moving Target *Sample Chapter*
    • Struck by Lightening: On Sudden Health Changes
  • Conferences

Natural Foods

Thai-inspired Tofu Spinach Salad Bowl

October 5, 2020 Christopher Cirino 0

Thai-inspired Tofu Spinach Salad Bowl by Ginnie Lin   We here at Your Health Forum are big fans of salad. This recipe was born out […]

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Just Say No to Flavored Yogurt. Try These 3 Ingredients Instead

September 22, 2020 0

An Alternative to Flavored Yogurt: Plain Greek Yogurt, Chia Seeds, and Granola This “recipe” is more of a recommendation to incorporate three wonderful ingredients into […]

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Needs a Healthy and Quick Snack? Green Beans with Sesame and Soy Sauce in 10-minutes

September 21, 2020 0

With the Autumn season quickly approaching, I’m already thinking of Thanksgiving – a roasted turkey, sweet potatoes, and green bean casserole. As one of the […]

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Good Carbs vs. Bad Carbs: How to Make the Right Choice for Your Health

August 25, 2020 Christopher Cirino 4

Preface by Dr. Cirino Here is a concise article on carbohydrates written by Tiffany Joy Yamut, RN, a registered nurse, blogger, and wellness writer. We […]

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Easy Bok Choy Recipe

June 21, 2020 0

From Your Health Forum Founder Dr. Cirino: Looking for a side dish for your meal?  I love bok choy! I first discovered it from a […]

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Eggplant Mini-Pizzas

April 28, 2020 Christopher Cirino 0

What a great way to use eggplant in place of dough for snacks that are healthy AND tasty! Actually considered a fruit, the eggplant was […]

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