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The holiday season isn’t kind to people who are trying to lose weight — or even just trying to maintain a holding pattern. But don’t give up hope. I’ve got some strategies to avoiding tipping the scales before New Year’s Eve, and I’d like to share them with you. Especially if you’ve been a victim of the “COVID 15.” I’m on a mission lose several pounds. Maybe you’re in the…
Do you find that you have more problems with your memory or ability to think than other people your age? Maybe you’ve noticed a progressive decline in your cognitive skills over the last decade? If so, you could be living with mild cognitive impairment, a condition that can precede Alzheimer’s disease. In fact, if you suffer from this condition, you’re at a whopping tenfold higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease…
About 18 million Americans, or one in every 15 people, live with a sleep disorder that is not only inconvenient but can be life-threatening. Sleep apnea is a disorder that affects breathing during sleep (‘apnea’ comes from a Greek word meaning “want of breath”). Sleep apnea is not only a chronic condition, but it also is progressive, meaning it can get worse over time. The most common form of sleep…
You pull yourself out of bed in the morning and your backaches. You head into the kitchen to get breakfast and notice that your neck and shoulders are tense and your hamstrings tight and painful. Every movement hurts. And you think, “Today, I’ve got to stretch.” But what if those aching, irritated muscles have less to do with what you’re doing each day and more to do with what you’re…
According to the CDC, 88 million Americans are now living with prediabetes and are on the path to a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis in the coming years. Yet, as scary as that number is, it can also be looked at as 88 million cases of diabetes that are preventable with the right steps. And those steps are exactly what a brand-new study published in the international journal JAMA Internal Medicine…
Are eggs good for you, or do they cause heart disease and diabetes? That’s the “great egg debate” that’s been going on for years. Eggs are high in protein, so they should be great for balancing blood sugar and filling you up when you’re trying to lose weight. But there is also the cholesterol controversy surrounding eggs — that eating too many eggs could set you up for heart disease.…
Don’t we all love the holidays and especially the food? It’s hard to always be on guard while watching our waistlines during this festive time. However, one way you can better control your weight, and most importantly, your health, is not to forget to include foods with plenty of fiber. Fiber-rich foods help you feel full faster on fewer calories. But that’s not all… Research has consistently shown that people who…
With so many pet foods on the market, it’s easy to be lulled into complacency about your dog’s diet. If you have a puppy, you think simply reaching for the puppy food will give them everything they need. But researchers have discovered that what your dog eats from the start of their life is critically important to one aspect of health… Poor early-life diet can lead to skin problems in…
For years, doctors and researchers have seen a tantalizing connection between vitamin D and cancer. Yet, that connection has always been just out of reach. Studies have shown that people who live near the equator, with higher exposure to the sunlight that produces more of the vitamin, have lower incidences of certain cancers and even lower death rates. And, lab and mouse models, researchers have watched as the sunshine vitamin…
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the U.S. and around the globe. And with the surge that experts warned us about last summer, researchers are increasingly turning to drugs and even natural supplements already approved for use against other conditions to try to stem the tide. Now, a Cleveland Clinic-led study has identified a whopping 34 candidates that could work in Covid treatment and discovered one, in particular, you’re…