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If you’re a meat and potatoes kind of person, then you’ve had a rough go of things. Sure, the rise of the paleo diet has made meat eating more popular among health conscious consumers. But that doesn’t change the fact that scientists continue to find evidence that your love affair with meat is harming your health. Late last year, the World Health Organization classified red meat as “probably carcinogenic to…
I recently had a full blood and nutritional profile taken by the head nutritionist for Red Bull, a guy who looks after the likes of Lolo Jones, NASA astronauts, and Blake Griffin for a living. Twenty vials of blood were taken, and the report came back as thick as a Jack Reacher novel. Your GP gives you the CliffsNotes® version, but I got the unabridged, authoritative text, with nothing omitted…
Have you ever wondered how research scientists in a lab can be so spot on at developing a supposed lifesaving medicine — but totally miss the boat because its side effects are as harmful as the condition it was created to cure? Welcome to Big Pharma… If you’re one of the 3+ million people diagnosed with a heart arrhythmia each year — this post is for you… because the wonder…
If you really dig dark chocolate (and who doesn’t), then you’ve had a lot of good news in recent years. Scientists keep studying it, and they keep uncovering more and more benefits. Dark chocolate fights heart disease, stroke and cancer. It lowers blood pressure, improves athletic endurance and boosts your brain function. At this point you probably wouldn’t be surprised if a study came out saying that dark chocolate made…
Many Americans are feeling the burn — the burning chest pain of acid reflux disease, that is. And if you’ve ever had acid reflux, you know the feeling all too well. It doesn’t always burn (although that’s the trademark symptom). It can also make you nauseous, cause you to burp or just give you general dose of chest and stomach discomfort. Whatever your symptoms, there’s no question that acid reflux…
A good memory is something you can easily take for granted until you begin to lose it. Forgetting people’s names, where you put your keys and the title of the movie you just saw are all considered “normal” as you age. But if that’s the case, who wants to be normal? Sure, it’s reassuring that these everyday memory lapses don’t mean you’re on the fast track to a serious cognitive…
Humans are social beings… we thrive in group settings. We often set goals and work to achieve certain milestones to please others or to gain their approval; it makes us happy and helps us feel accepted. It can be fun too. Activities like dancing, exercising, biking and working out are often carried out in groups. It may not be intentional, but it helps us bond and it’s definitely motivating when…
High blood pressure is responsible for about 1,000 deaths daily. 1 That’s because it often has no symptoms and leads to deadly conditions like stroke and heart disease. That means millions of us — even you — are potential ticking time bombs. But there’s a new super fruit in the spotlight — and it has blood pressure benefits that are really sweet… even if the taste is more on the…
There is a fungus among us… and it’s Candida albicans. Rice University estimated that 70 percent of people have this opportunistic fungus in their gut. As long as your good bacteria and the other microorganisms in your gut are doing their job and keeping Candida under control you’ve nothing to worry about. But when you’re bacterial balance gets out of whack, it can turn into a case of Candida gone…
Our gastrointestinal (GI) tract plays incredibly important roles in virtually all aspects of life. Nutrition, metabolism, immunity and detoxification are only four. There has been an explosion of recent research on the importance of the “microbiome”, the complex community of hundreds of bacteria that call our body home. Neurotransmitters that affect our mood and behavior, which we usually think of as part of our brain’s functioning, are also found abundantly…