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Core stability, hip and leg strength are essential to an active lifestyle, good posture and protecting the knees. Tema Esberg of Potentia Personal Training shows you this simple “shoulder bridge with hip dips” exercise to tone and strengthen these areas in this easy-to-follow video. This exercise is a variation of the “shoulder bridge with toe tap” exercise you can see here. Both of these are great exercises anyone can do…
When you were a kid you probably thought of the tomato as a vegetable, and now they’re calling them “tomato fruit.” But whether you’re old school or new age, the fact is that we kind of take tomatoes for granted, considering how much they help your heart. Stroke, hypertension and heart attack … the tomato helps prevent them all. In fact, when scientists look at what elements of a healthy diet…
“Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a highly contagious respiratory disease. It is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. Pertussis is known for uncontrollable, violent coughing which often makes it hard to breathe. After fits of many coughs, someone with pertussis often needs to take deep breaths which result in a “whooping” sound. Pertussis can affect people of all ages, but can be very serious, even deadly, for babies…
Can it really be true that all you have to do is walk and it will help you live longer and avoid disease? Let’s look at the evidence. A new study out of Japan looked at 1239 people in the New Integrated Suburban Seniority Investigation Project. The researchers found that people who walked in any capacity for a total of at least two hours a day, they had a 51…
You’ve heard all your life that for health and hydration, it’s necessary to consume eight glasses of water a day. If you drink your eight on a particular day, but instead of water, you switched things up a bit and had four glasses of water and four glasses of coffee—have you met your quota? Coffee lovers rejoice, because… Yes — you have! But about drinking eight cups a day… that’s…
Eggs, carbs, bacon, grilling, frying… with so much inconsistent information, what are we supposed to believe is good for us? Now we hear that cooking with vegetable oil may be cancerous. This is a complete turnaround from when we were told that oils rich in polyunsaturated fats (think corn oil, vegetable oil and sunflower oil) were much healthier than the saturated fats in animal products. Turns out, scientists have now…
I’m always looking for natural ways to maintain my energy throughout the day. The most important thing for me is to avoid those foods and drinks that put me on a rollercoaster of highs and lows. Coffee, pastries, energy drinks, and other high sugar foods and drinks may spike you up temporarily, but they’ll also bring you down just as quick. For healthy, sustained energy try some of these natural…
Parents don’t get sick days. That’s the topic of some amusing TV commercials that have been airing lately — and they’re amusing because they’re true. Parents have to parent no matter how they feel. Several years ago, when my children were very young, I had pneumonia. Somehow, I managed to go to work every day. But I was exhausted by the time I got home. So I’d load the kids…
Aspirin before heart surgery, Tylenol for back pain, thyroid screening, pelvic exams, stents… … all completely worthless? That’s the finding published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). It says millions of medical diagnoses, procedures and treatments are based on questionable scientific evidence and that in some cases the “risk of harm exceeds its potential for benefit.” It’s being called “medical overuse.” A too-forgiving term for overdiagnosis and…
“Plant and food chemicals may help treat cancers” say the headlines. They’re reporting on a new study where 180 scientists successfully used food and plant compounds to fight cancer. Maybe these folks have been hiding under a rock? For 30 years now, alternative doctors and integrative medicine specialists have been showing us how foods can prevent cancer, and which natural herbs and plants fight cancer. But drug companies can’t make…