Posted on: June 24, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Go nuts … and cheat father time

Want to elude father time and live a longer healthier life? There’s one dependable food that can improve your chances. In the search for extending your life expectancy, researchers offer one word: nuts. A study in the Netherlands shows that eating about half a handful of nuts or peanuts (although, technically, peanuts aren’t nuts, they’re legumes) every day gives you a lower risk of dying during the next few decades.…

Posted on: June 24, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

In the kitchen with Kelley: Raspberry pops

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! The dog days of summer are yet to come, but in Alabama even the mid-June heat is oppressive. Once-tolerable activities like walking the dog or mowing the lawn are now major energy zappers. But there’s no rest for the weary; these things still have…

Posted on: June 23, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Make your stress harmless and boost immunity

Too much stress can wreck your health. But scientists have found an uncomplicated approach that can take the bite out of its destructive effects. It may not always be easy, but if you can keep calm, cool and collected in the face of the stress that frequently confronts you, you can tamp down stress’s ill effects on your immune system and avoid its long term influence. Researchers at the Center…

Posted on: June 23, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Are vitamins and supplements worth it? Follow the money

If drug companies and many doctors can be believed, taking vitamins and other supplements are a waste of time. But is this true? Or do preventive, natural methods to stay healthy beat the high cost and suffering that results when you fall for the hype that doctors and Big Pharma know best when it comes to your well-being? If you analyze the benefits of supplements, as have researchers at the…

Posted on: June 23, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 2

Eat real meat and stop cancer?

If you’ve been scared off of eating meat because of research supposedly linking it to colon cancer and other illnesses, you’ve been misled by a meaty oversimplification. It’s the kind of meat you eat that’s important. A certain natural chemical in the right kind of meat helps your digestive tract … and kills cancer cells. The problem with many of the studies that warn you off meat is that the…

Posted on: June 23, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Skin cancer: Even more than skin deep

Skin cancer … just the thought of suffering from it is overwhelming. But we have to think about it because here’s something even more overwhelming: One in five Americans will be diagnosed in their lifetime. And 3.5 million cases in over 2 million people are diagnosed each year. That’s more than all new cases of breast, prostate, lung and colon cancers combined. And these numbers are rising. Fast. There are…

Posted on: June 22, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

Deadliest summer waves aren’t at the beach

Summertime is when many of us get more exercise – jogging, swimming, playing ball, biking and doing other outdoor activities. But when you are outside during the warmer months, you have to watch out for the type of wave that is the most deadly – and it isn’t a tsunami. It’s a heat wave. If you’re an outdoor exerciser, it’s a good idea to keep an eye on the temperature…

Posted on: June 22, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

In the kitchen with Kelley: Watermelon agua fresca

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! I have a confession to make: I like my water plain. I don’t even want ice in it most of the time. But my children really like flavored water, so I looked for and found a recipe for a Mexican drink that is essentially…

Posted on: June 22, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

How to speed up your amazing “plastic” brain

You already know that your brain is a tissue mass containing the specialized cells called neurons. But your brain does much more than just use those cells to store information. Much more than we ever thought, no pun intended. And here’s the exciting part … you can speed up your brain and dramatically re-configure the information capacity through what is called synaptic plasticity, or neuroplasticity. In other words, you can…

Posted on: June 22, 2015 Posted by: Michele Lee Comments: 0

A simple way to avoid dangerous infections

Many people inadvertently expose themselves to pathogenic bacteria every morning. You don’t have to be one of them. The trick to dodging the infectious bacteria so many people encounter is to keep your toothbrush someplace other than the bathroom. A study at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut shows that when families or other groups of people keep their toothbrushes in the bathroom, the brushes can pick up microscopic pathogens that enter…