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Have you ever thought about what it would be like to live to 100? Some people say they don’t want to. And I think it’s because they picture themselves feeble and sickly — like a prisoner in their own body. But that’s not actually what it’s like for the lucky .0173 percent of people who reach the 100 year mark. It may seem logical to assume that if you live…
What you’re eating right now could make all the difference whether you develop chronic health problems or even deadly diseases like cancer down the line. Because even though food can be medicine — food can also be poison. Take the relationship between diet and cancer, for example… Fast food, foods filled with refined sugar and hydrogenated oils, alcohol and red meat have all been linked to cancer. But on the…
If you’re an American, you’re no stranger to scary food ingredients. In fact, your food is filled with some of the scariest additives around… remember the ‘wood pulp’ found in Parmesan cheese? And you’ve got meat packed with crazy drugs like muscle stimulants, growth hormones and antibiotics. Drinks filled with flame retardants. And of course chemical preservatives like BHA and BHT—which are pretty much fair game for any type of…
Do men and women require different approaches to health and nutrition? Aside from the obvious differences, it’s only recently that researchers and conventional healthcare providers have tuned in to the subtle and not so subtle biological differences between the sexes. That’s why when prescribing drugs, nutrition and specific treatment protocols, the “one-size-fits-all” method has traditionally served as the standard of care. This assembly line approach is a far cry from…
Based on mounds of research, it’s safe to say that the Mediterranean diet could be the healthiest diet around. Just in the past few years alone, new research has demonstrated that the Mediterranean diet slows aging, reduces bone loss, prevents Alzheimer’s, and slashes your risk of cancer and more. But when researchers and dieticians sing the praises of this miracle diet and all of its healthful ingredients (fish, olive oil,…
Few things are as uncomfortable and unnerving as painful urination… or urinary frequency, also called dysuria. And more than one condition can be the reason for the pain… but most often the blame can be placed on one of three common and treatable conditions: urinary tract infection, non-specific urethritis and interstitial cystitis. More often as well, women tend to suffer from these conditions frequently compared with men — and it’s…
Have you ever thought about how much easier life would be if you could just turn off your cravings for pizza, candy, cake and other foods that are high in calories and low in nutrients? For starters you could give up dieting for good because you’d never again feel deprived about eating the right foods. And what if all you needed to say sayonara to the sweet stuff was a…
Southerners know how to cool down. We had to figure it out to survive. Not only are the summer months below the Mason-Dixon line just plain hot, the humidity makes it downright oppressive. That’s why we drink a lot of refreshing sweet tea… and enjoy a fair share of our favorite summer fruit: watermelon. Who knew you could combine the two and create an extremely refreshing drink? Well, you can…
Balanced blood sugar is an important key to a healthy life. And not just if you want to fend off diabetes… The peaks and valleys of unbalanced blood sugar create inflammation in your body, and that leads to a host of problems like asthma, ulcers, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s and even cancer, just to name a few. But keeping your blood sugar balanced is not always easy. It requires…
Diet. It’s a word that might turn a lot of people off. But it’s a word of many connotations… I write about the Paleo diet most often… it’s a way of eating I’ve chosen to follow. I also write about diet in terms of foods that promote wellness because of their nutrient value or special compounds that fight disease (think superfoods!), and I’ve written some about dieting in terms of…