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When the World Health Organization (WHO) announced several days ago that processed meats and red meats can cause cancer, many of my friends turned to me and asked, “Margaret, what are you going to eat now?” I have to admit I was taken aback — by my friends ideas of what I ate. I have followed a paleo diet many years now and I don’t consider processed meats — or…
Counting calories may be one of the worst ways to control your weight. What you choose to eat is far more important for your waistline than how much you eat. And the good news is… You don’t have to starve! Instead, just switch to the kinds of nutrient-dense foods that make you feel full after every meal, and watch the pounds come off. The following articles detail some of our favorite…
The American Cancer Society has issued new guidelines stating that fewer screenings for breast cancer are better than more. This is a 180-degree pivot for the organization. Now, the ACS is recommending mammograms for women beginning at age 45 rather than 40, and saying that annual routine manual breast exams can be discarded. The ACS now says women 55 and older can transition to mammograms every other year. As CNN.com…
We face stress in our everyday lives. Work and family life can be plenty challenging, and unusually extreme, out-of-our-control events, such as a diagnosis for you or a loved one of a serious disease, can be incredibly overwhelming. The amount of stress we face and how we deal with it can greatly affect our health. The autonomic part of our nervous system is in charge of body processes not under…
Leg and butt strength are essential for stability, tone and protecting the knee joints. I’m sure many of you have heard of, or even done, leg lunges. Well, today we’ll make those a bit more challenging by doing them in reverse and to the side with the use of a slider. In today’s video, Tema Esberg is demonstrating both exercises with a slider she purchased in a local hardware store,…
FitBit, Nike, Garmin, Jawbone… if you have a wearable fitness tracker, you’re on your way to growing younger. Sound crazy? The secret is in the step counter. Fitness trackers are very good at making you feel guilty for not taking enough steps during the day. Turns out, that’s a good thing. If you want to keep your independence and be able to keep moving around as you age, you’ll go…
There’s a lot of hype about the health benefits of cold-pressed juices. Pretty much every health store is selling them but the truth is they’re not really that good for you. They’re also expensive, environmentally wasteful, and can actually be counter to a healthy lifestyle. So the next time you consider forking out $10-$15 for a cold-pressed juice at one of those whole food stores — remember the following: Juicing…
Alternative health gurus can knock cereal all they want. Call it processed, call it high glycemic, call it what you want. But eating more fiber from cereal lowers the risk of dying from ANY type of cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, or stroke. These just happen to be the leading causes of preventable death in the U.S. In fact, we think of strokes as very scary but very rare… but…
Research at Emory University suggests that if you have a hard time keeping your weight where you want it, there is an oversized organ that has grown too large to let our digestive system adapt to its demands. “Our evolutionary history has given us a brain that is focused much of the time on eating, and a gut that isn’t designed for today’s variety and volume of high-density food,” explains researcher…
If you spend long hours working at a desk, driving your car, or not moving very much, research at Kansas State University shows a way to activate an enzyme in your body to burn off more fat as you work. When you sit unmoving for hours at work, and your muscles are dormant, you switch off a natural chemical in your body. It’s called lipoprotein lipase, or LPL. It stimulates the…