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Fibromyalgia affects one in 50 Americans. If not managed properly, over time it can ruin relationships and wrecks lives. Because the root cause is unknown there is yet to be a cure. Many health care providers do their best to help sufferers manage the symptoms of this elusive disease. The best approach until we know more, is to mitigate the pain while outwitting the other symptoms by reducing known triggers.…
I stepped into a bookstore this past weekend for the first time in many months. It’s crazy because this time of year there are literally hundreds of books on diets. But I was surprised to see that many of them are not about weight. There are low calorie diets for weight loss. Low sodium diets for people with blood pressure issues. Gluten free diets for people with celiac disease or…
2015 is flying by. Halloween has passed, but the candy still lingers… Thanksgiving is approaching and I am already full just thinking about how much I’ll eat that day. Then it’ll be December when Christmas parties, eggnog and food-themed gift baskets abound. Come January 1, I’ll make the same New Year’s resolution I make every year—get skinny! But this year, I have an edge… I’ve learned something very easy but…
There’s been so much written about cholesterol and nutrition… and what you should do and what you should never do… well, how are you supposed to know what to do? To help women out, here’s a fact: If you don’t get enough calcium, it makes you fat and gives you high “bad” cholesterol. Scientists at the University of Tennessee discovered that low calcium consumption flips a switch in fat cells,…
Did you know that high blood pressure can destroy your bones and kidneys as well as your heart? Researchers have found that leaving the wrong kind of phosphates out of your meals may provide an easy way to rescue your blood pressure and your vital organs. The study demonstrates that foods rich in phosphates – most processed foods – can drive up your blood pressure. According to this research, inorganic phosphates…
Of all our senses, vision may be the one most associated with independence. Many of us shudder at the thought of vision loss. How would we get around? How would we experience the world? We go to great lengths to preserve our eyesight, like undergoing surgeries to correct glaucoma, cataracts and other eye conditions. One of the keys to understanding eye health is to expand our thinking from considering the…
You may have never heard of small intestinal bowel overgrowth (SIBO), but it has a role in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). You’ll be interested to know that treating SIBO is also the secret to successfully treating rosacea, fibromyalgia, and more. Here’s why… What is SIBO? The large intestine, or colon, is normally rich with bacteria. Normally you have 108 bacteria per ml of fluid and 1010 bacteria per gram of…
If any segment of the American population needs vitamin E desperately, it’s anyone with metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome affects one out of every three adults in the United States. How can you know if you’re affected? If you have any three of these five common health concerns, you may be a candidate: Excess abdominal fat. High blood pressure. Low “good” cholesterol. High levels of blood sugar. Or high levels of…
In recent years, a huge amount of focus has centered on your gut. Probiotics — supplements containing helpful gut bacteria, and prebiotics — nondigestible carbohydrates that act as food for probiotics, have been the subject of much research in terms of making your gut as healthy as can possibly be. So why all this focus on your gut? Well, for starters, your gut — along with its invaluable microbiome of…
Claim your FREE copy of Doctor’s Inside Secrets for Natural Cleansing and Detoxification and your FREE subscription to Easy Health Digest™ when you sign up today! Sweet potatoes and Thanksgiving go hand in hand. I remember as a child looking forward to my grandmother’s creamy sweet potato casserole topped with melted marshmallows. It makes my mouth water just to think about it. But the old-fashioned sweet potato casserole I grew…