Author: lukelu

Taste Bud Makeover

Taste Bud Makeover

Americans eat up to 3 times the recommended sugar allowance every day, and over twice the suggested sodium. It seems our palates just crave far more salt and sugar than necessary. While advocacy groups...

New ways to lose weight

New ways to lose weight

If your New Year’s resolution to drop pounds is nothing more than a distant memory and the weight-loss ads with slimmed-down stars like Jennifer Hudson are just making you depressed, read on! Below are...

Some foods don’t mix with drugs

Think of your stomach as one big test tube. Maybe you drop in a vitamin or herbal supplement each morning. Maybe a cholesterol-lowering statin or a blood-pressure drug. Perhaps an infection-fighting antibiotic or allergy-relieving...

Over-processed

Over-processed

From the drive–thru to prepackaged dinners to school lunches to even infant formula, processed foods are everywhere. And while it’s clear a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains supports health, more research...

Ingredients for Peas on Earth

Throughout history, people have turned to peas for their nutritional value. Believed to have originated in Asia, peas are an important dietary element in cultures around the world, providing a versatile, rich source of...

Vitamins and Supplements Don’ts

Vitamins and Supplements Don’ts

Vitamins and supplements are supposed to strengthen our bones, boost our memory, protect our heart, and help us stay healthy. And 74 percent of American women take them. The problem is some might be...

Neck Pain

Neck Pain

As many as one in five people suffer from neck pain in a given year, and it’s generally higher among women. So what can you do about it? A new study in the journal...

Smart Ways to Stay Well, Eat Right and Get Fit

Smart Ways to Stay Well, Eat Right and Get Fit

Back Pain If the hurt won’t quit, consider an alternative therapy – or two. Recent studies form the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle found that both Swedish massage and yoga significantly relieved chronic...

Music to Your Health

Music to Your Health

Music can actually aid both brain and cardiovascular function. One study noted higher cognitive performance among individuals who listened to music while working out. Another determined that heart rate and blood pressure can actually...

Vitamins by the glass

PARIS — I actually wanted to start juicing last summer, when I was in the throes of testing three, sometimes four different cakes, cookies, tacos or tarts each day for my cookbook, which comes...

Are Vitamins Worth Taking?

I often receive questions about vitamin therapy. Some wonder if they should take vitamin supplements to prevent illness. Others ask if they still need vitamins if they are eating a well-balanced diet, and some...

All about Elsie

All about Elsie

While a good percentage of our food supply is global, the cow’s milk you drink hails from America, probably from a local dairy. Here’s what you’ll find in the carton. Varied fat content In...

Surprising Bacterial Hideouts

Surprising Bacterial Hideouts

While perpetually dousing your hands in alcohol sanitizer or washing obsessively with antibacterial suds may be excessive (experts warn the hygienic craze may be backfiring on our health), there are some things you’d be...

Equal Footing

Equal Footing

When winter hands off the seasonal baton to spring, synchronize your own equilibrium, both on the job and in the home: Remove dead branches. Even a beautiful flower withers under winter’s frost. To give...

Keep your head with fruit and veg!

In addition to vitamins and minerals, many fruits and vegetables contain polyphenols, which protect the brain’s neurons. So let’s have a closer look as these anti-ageing foods… Keeping your head’s neurons healthy and happy...

Vitamins may lower risk of melanoma

US researchers found a high dose of retinol supplements, a form of vitamin A, could hold promise as a chemoprotective agent against melanoma. Experts say more research is needed and that comprehensive sun protection...

Antioxidants Studies

Antioxidants Studies

As everyone knows, eating and drinking are necessary for life. Less well known, however, is the fact that the body generates what are called free radicals in the process of turning food into energy....